Severe Weather Storms: Hurricanes and Tornadoes A hurricane is an extremely violent tropical cyclone. The origin of the term Hurricane originates from a Mayan Storm god by the name of Hurakan. He was a Central American idol who believably caused the storms. Years later‚ the hypothesis of someone creating angry storms has been corrected. It is known that these storms are an act of nature by God’s laws at work. The term hurricane just stuck with the weather condition. Another source states
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they form‚ how quick warnings come out‚ size‚ how long they last‚ and how they spin. First of all‚ a difference is where they form. While tornadoes spawn everywhere except Antarctica‚ in contrast‚ hurricanes spawn in the water near the equator. As you can see‚ tornadoes rule the land‚ while hurricanes rule the ocean. This is a huge difference considering that‚ as previously stated‚ some people think that they are the same. Secondly in the difference department‚ is the warning time. Hurricanes
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are caused by instability in atmospheric conditions. According to the region and severity of stormy conditions‚ hurricanes may also be referred to as typhoons or tropical cyclones." According to http://www.diffen.com/difference/Hurricane_vs_Tornado - Some different about hurricanes are "The amount of days between warning about hurricanes days to weeks. The exact area of which the hurricane will hit is known within days‚ but the storm system will last for significantly longer than that‚ with
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------------------------------------------------- The role of "students" in any capacity is to learn as much as they can about the subject at hand. In the case of disaster management‚ this is a very wide open field. A student should learn causes of disasters and figure out ways to reduce the risk of an catastrophe from happening in the first place. Here is what wikipedia has to say about disaster management: Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline of dealing with
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Death Toll from a Earthquake!! Number of Earthquakes Worldwide for 2000 - 2012 Located by the US Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center (M4.5+ for most of the world; doesn’t include US regional network contributions) Magnitude 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 8.0 to 9.9 1 1 0 1 2 1 2 4 0 1 1 1 2 7.0 to 7.9 14 15 13 14 14 10 9 14 12 16 23 19 12 6.0 to 6.9 146 121 127 140 141 140
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A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean between 180° and 100°E. This region is referred to as the northwest Pacific basin.[1] For organizational purposes‚ the northern Pacific Ocean is divided into three regions: the eastern (North America to 140°W)‚ central (140°W to 180°)‚ and western (180° to 100°E). Identical phenomena in the eastern north Pacific are called hurricanes‚ with tropical cyclones moving into the western Pacific re-designated
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The One Dollar Horse is an adventure book about a 15 year old girl Casey Blue‚ who lives in the worst part of East London‚ in a horrible tower block. Casey also volunteers at her local riding school because she is fanatical about horses and her dream is to one day win the greatest three day event: the Badminton Horse Trials. When Casey rescues a wild horse‚ her life changes dramatically and she is determined to help this horse in any way she can at whatever cost. Casey Blue Casey’s life has been
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resources thus significantly contributing to the development of human society. With the rapid progress achieved‚ the remote sensing applications in India now cover diverse fields such as the agricultural crop acreage and yield estimation‚ drought warning and assessment‚ flood control and damage assessment‚ land use/land cover mapping‚ wasteland management‚ urban development‚ mineral prospecting‚ forest survey‚ etc. Thus covering almost all facets of national development. Space Technology has also
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infrastructure‚ India is one of the most vulnerable developing countries to suffer very often from various Natural Disasters‚ viz. flood‚ cyclone‚ earthquake‚forest fire‚ drought‚ etc. Asia tops the list of casualties due to natural disasters. Space technology plays a crucial role in efficient mitigation of disasters. Communication satellite provides disaster warning and relief mobilization‚ Earth observation satellite provides required database for predisaster preparedness programmes and post-disaster
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false sense of confidence‚ eventually leaving 70% of the population behind after evacuation orders. The National Hurricane Center could not label the storm a hurricane and because of NOAA rules‚ they could not even set out warnings for it. Between the absence of hurricane warnings‚ late evacuation orders‚ and citizen’s previous experience one year earlier with Hurricane Irene‚ many people felt they did not need to evacuate. This false confidence that nothing “huge” will happen to them‚ contributes
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