The Report Essay

The second type of essays is report essay. This is a type of essay which provides general description of nouns. It is different from the descriptive essay; the descriptive essay describes something based on the writer's perception. The report essay must provide descriptions based on a research or facts.

Here is an example of the report essay:

Earthquake

Have you ever experienced a natural phenomenon which shakes yourself and everything around you? This natural phenomenon can even cause a city to collapse or a big wave of tsunami to occur. The natural phenomenon is called earthquake which is a violent, shaking movement on the earth’s surface as a result of energy discharge.

Earthquakes can occur because of several particular causes. Firstly, an earthquake can happen as a result of the slowly movement of tectonic plates which are floating on extremely hot, thick magma liquid called mantle.The heat of the magma liquid causes the plates to move towards each other; the plates might drift towards each other, avoid each other or slide past each other. When two or more tectonic plates slide past each other, they might collide or pass across towards each other; these activities lead an earthquake to occur. Another cause of earthquake to happen is the volcanic eruption which is an activity of the magma liquid, that is being pressured to release through volcanoes. The volcanic eruption often leads to a disruption in the position of plates that may cause an earthquake to happen. Besides both of above causes which lead to big earthquakes to occur, other events such as landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear test cause less strong earthquakes to happen.

Earthquakes are being classified into several types based on their causes. The tectonic earthquake is the first type of the earthquakes classification. This type of earthquakes is caused by the movement of tectonic plates floating on the magma liquid. The tectonic earthquake occurs either on the continents or in the depth of oceans; the tectonic earthquakes lead to heavy damages on the land and big waves of tsunami in the ocean. The earthquake happened and caused a big wave of tsunami in Japan is an example of the tectonic earthquakes. The other type of earthquakes is the volcanic earthquake, which is caused by the explosion eruption of volcanoes; this type of earthquakes is rarely to happen because not all of volcanoes erupt violently. The earthquake which happened after the violently heavy eruption of Mount Krakatoa in Indonesia is an example of the volcanic earthquakes. In addition, there are also some earthquakes that is instead not classified neither into the tectonic nor volcanic earthquakes. The earthquakes occur because of landslides underground and nuclear explosions.

Earthquake is a violent, shaking movement that occurs on the earth’s surface. It can be caused by the movement of tectonic plates, volcanic activities, landslides, mine blasts and nuclear explosions. It can be divided into several types: the tectonic earthquake, volcanic earthquake and earthquakes caused by other natural phenomenons and human activities.