Tsunami Awareness Kit General Tsunami Resources Tsunami Mitigation Strategies Introduction While tsunamis can not be prevented‚ or their destructive effects entirely avoided‚ actions can be taken to mitigate the risks of this hazard‚ thereby reducing the impacts on life‚ physical structures and livelihoods. The first step in mitigating the tsunami hazard and reducing vulnerability is to gain an understanding of the threat and potential effects should a tsunami occur. Some of the more direct
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Governor’s‚ right? Well‚ one thing you probably don’t know is that we (Florida) have had forty-four different governors. Well‚ if we were to cover all of them‚ than we would be here all day long‚ but we’ll just talk about former Governor‚ Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. He was the 41st governor of Florida. He did a lot of work‚ like being in the Korean War from 1953- 1954. He is also known as “Walkin’ Lawton” when he walked 1‚003 miles from Key West to Pensacola in just three months. It was a part of his U.S
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Imagine that you are the Chief Executive of Hong Kong‚ what will you plan to do in order to reduce the health impact of earthquake? Among all natural disasters‚ earthquake has perhaps caused the highest death toll and financial loss. Being unpredictable and undetectable‚ alleviation as well as evacuation have become even more difficult. The Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in 1995 caused a property loss of over US$60 billion and a lost of more than US$100 billion in capital (Sawada‚ 2008‚ p.463)‚ whereas
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A rolling blackout‚ also referred to as load shedding‚ is an intentionally engineered electrical power shutdown where electricity delivery is stopped for non-overlapping periods of time over different parts of the distribution region. Rolling blackouts are a last-resort measure used by an electric utility company to avoid a total blackout of the power system. They are a type of demand response for a situation where the demand for electricity exceeds the power supply capability of the network. Rolling
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Assess the strength of the relationship between tectonic processes and major landforms on the earth’s surface. Tectonic processes have been responsible for the major landforms across the Earth’s surface. These processes are controlled by the convection currents rising from the Earth’s mantle. Firstly‚ one place where tectonic activity occurs is at oceanic to oceanic constructive plate boundaries. Here two plates diverge or move away from each other‚ pushed apart by huge convection currents
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Chile Chile: ¡felices vacaciones! Cheyenne Sullivan The country I chose was Chile. I chose this country because I have heard about it and I thought it would be interesting. In this essay‚ I will write about Chileans holidays. The next paragraph will be about how Chileans celebrate the holiday season. The paragraph after that will be about popular traditions in Chile. Paragraph four will be about things that are special about Chilean culture and the last paragraph is the conclusion.
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Amanda Lopez (11-1) 3 February 2013 English Paul Walker Paul Walker born in California in 1973‚ he made his bigscreen debut in the 1986 horror spoof “Monster in Your Closet.” After appearing in several television shows in the 1990s‚ including Charles in Charge‚ Who’s the Boss? and The Young and the Restless‚ Walker gained attention with a role in the 1999 film Varsity Blues‚ and his TV days were officially behind him. After working in teen movies such as She’s
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Indtil 1960’erne har man betragtet ondskabsfulde handlinger som noget usædvanligt og ekstremt‚ der var udtryk for en mental sygdom. Man havde svært ved at forestille sig‚ at ganske almindelige mennesker kunne begå uforklarlige og uhyrlige forbrydelser‚ og man var lettet‚ når der var en biologisk forklaring. Hvordan kan vi definere ondskab og ondskabsfulde handlinger? Det er noget‚ det skader andre‚ og det kan være både fysisk og psykisk. Man forringer altså ofrets livskvalitet‚ men for at man kan
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Socialist and Dictatorial Experience of Chile Somnath Deshmukh University of Illinois Urbana Champaign One of the most speculative experiences of conquest and dictatorship in the history of Latin America has been the socialist and dictatorial regimes in Chile. Chile has gone through multiple times of dictatorship‚ lead by the military‚ and also had lapses of a socialist government. The film “Machuca” by Andres Wood provided an insight of the series of social events in Chile in 1973‚ ranging from inter personal
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