Nurtaj is an Arabic name for girls that is formed from the word Nur (light) and taj (crown), thus meaning crown of light.Since taj can be used to add emphasis to names, the meaning can ... Read more.urtaj is an Arabic name for girls that is formed from the word Nur (light) and taj (crown), thus meaning crown of light.
It's important to be able to distinguish between minor earthquakes that cause no damage or fatalities and major earthquakes that result in horrific loss of life. That's why we usually describe earthquakes by giving them a number on either the Richter scale or the Mercalli scale.
1 Earthquakes 1.1 What happens during an earthquake? The Earth is an active planet, with activity occurring in the oceans, in the atmosphere and in the solid Earth itself. This course looks at a dramatic example of solid Earth activity: earthquakes. You probably have some idea from newspapers, television or perhaps personal experience, of just how powerful earthquakes can be. In a matter of minutes earthquakes have devastated cities and killed a quarter of a million people. I was in only a medium-sized earthquake in 1978, but even that had the power to throw me out of bed onto the floor and make the building sway from side to side; an awesome experience.