Although coal burning contributes a very small amount, the high mercury levels in fish result from spills of mercury directly into the water. false. The idea of cogeneration is to produce electricity from steam, heat, or other forms of energy that are by-products of another process-usually manufacturing. true A fuel assembly in a nuclear power plant consists of
Alaska is home of the the second largest earthquake ever recorded (1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, magnitude 9.2) Alaska has 11 percent of the world's recorded earthquakes. Three of the eight largest earthquakes in the world were in Alaska. Seven of the ten largest earthquakes in the United States were in Alaska.
The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake didnât come close to the loss of life from two slightly smaller and more recent quakes: the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami (third-largest earthquake recorded on a seismograph, with over 230,000 people in 14 countries killed) and the March 11, 2011 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan (fifth-largest earthquake recorded on a seismograph, with nearly 16,000 deaths).