1. " EARTHQUAKE" An earthquake (also known as a quake or tremor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time. Earthquakes are measured using observations from seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the entire globe. The more numerous earthquakes smaller than magnitude 5 reported by national seismological observatories are measured mostly on the local magnitude scale, also referred to as the Richter scale. These two scales are numerically similar over their range of validity. Magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes are mostly almost imperceptible and magnitude 7 and over potentially cause serious damage over large areas, depending on their depth. The largest earthquakes in historic times have been...
Coretan TUGASku~ PENGERTIAN RESENSI BUKU Resensi asal katanya dari bahasa Latin, yakni revidere ( re = kembali dan videre = melihat) atau recensere , yang artinya melihat kembali, menimbang atau menilai. Dalam bahasa Belanda dikenal kata recensie , sedangkan dalam bahasa Inggris dikenal dengan istilah review . Semua istilah tersebut mengacu pada hal yang sama, yakni mengulas sebuah buku. Resensi yang merupakan salah satu bentuk tulisan jurnalistik populer tetap mempunyai aturan-aturan penulisan. Aturan tersebut didasarkan pada unsur-unsur yang membangun resensi buku. Setiap media massa mempunyai pola sendiri dalam penulisan resensi. Akan tetapi pola-pola tersebut tetap mengandung unsur-unsur resensi pada umumnya. Unsur tersebut menurut Samad (1997:7—8) meliputi judul resensi, data buku, pendahuluan, tubuh atau isi pernyataan, dan penutup. Judul resensi haruslah selaras dengan keseluruhan...