Tsunami Activity
Tsunami
Abstract
This essay covers about Tsunami, being one of the fatal natural disasters that have attacked many countries, endangering the human lives. This essay will cover on what tsunami is, how and why it happens, and the severe consequences and the measures taken to prevent it.
Before getting started for the essay, I started doing a research on the types natural disasters. Once I have chosen the topic of my extended essay, which is tsunami, I planned on what information that I should include in my essay.
According to the information I planned to include, I then structured my essay into three main parts which are introduction, body and conclusion. In the introduction, I would include about the natural disasters and the dangers of tsunami. In the body, I planned to write about the importance parts about tsunami. Lastly, I concluded by summarizing of my essay.
I acquired most of the information from books in the internet. From this essay, it is concluded that tsunami is hard to be predicted, if people do not see that tsunami is coming, many people would be killed.
I had difficulty in finding detailed description of how tsunami is predicted when there is tsunami, since the information is limited.
Table of Contents
Content Page Number
Introduction 1
Body 2 Conclusion 4
Bibliography 5
Introduction
Natural disaster is a phenomenon that happens naturally, threatening the humans ' lives and damaging the properties. On Friday, 11 March 2011 at 14:46:23 JST, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake happened under the sea of Japan and cause a tsunami with height 133 feet in Tōhoku. It caused thousands of people to die, injured and missing, and damaging
Abstract
This essay covers about Tsunami, being one of the fatal natural disasters that have attacked many countries, endangering the human lives. This essay will cover on what tsunami is, how and why it happens, and the severe consequences and the measures taken to prevent it.
Before getting started for the essay, I started doing a research on the types natural disasters. Once I have chosen the topic of my extended essay, which is tsunami, I planned on what information that I should include in my essay.
According to the information I planned to include, I then structured my essay into three main parts which are introduction, body and conclusion. In the introduction, I would include about the natural disasters and the dangers of tsunami. In the body, I planned to write about the importance parts about tsunami. Lastly, I concluded by summarizing of my essay.
I acquired most of the information from books in the internet. From this essay, it is concluded that tsunami is hard to be predicted, if people do not see that tsunami is coming, many people would be killed.
I had difficulty in finding detailed description of how tsunami is predicted when there is tsunami, since the information is limited.
Table of Contents
Content Page Number
Introduction 1
Body 2 Conclusion 4
Bibliography 5
Introduction
Natural disaster is a phenomenon that happens naturally, threatening the humans ' lives and damaging the properties. On Friday, 11 March 2011 at 14:46:23 JST, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake happened under the sea of Japan and cause a tsunami with height 133 feet in Tōhoku. It caused thousands of people to die, injured and missing, and damaging
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