This ruling was also affirmed by the Florida appeals court and denied a hearing by the Florida Supreme Court. When Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed for the second time, in 2003, the Florida legislature created âTerri's Lawâ to override the court decision, and the tube was again reinserted. This law was subsequently ruled an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers.
Ground Shaking-Shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves near the epicenter of the earthquake is responsible for the collapse of most structures. The intensity of ground shaking depends on distance from the epicenter and on the type of bedrock underlying the area.
Earthquakes: sea-quakes & tsunamis. Large shallow earthquakes generate the most destructive tsunamis where their epicentre is on a fault line along the ocean floor. Tectonic subduction and tectonic plate boundaries are the areas most likely to cause tsunamis. Collision of these tectonic plates in these areas of high seismicity cause large earthquakes as the plates move past each other, tilting, offsetting or displacing large areas of ocean floor from just a few kilometres up to 1,000 or more.