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    The Aberfan Disaster

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    caused by two days of constant rain along with the coal slag being on top of an underground spring. “The tragedy was caused by two days of continual heavy rain loosening the coal slag‚ which was situated on top of an underground spring” (The Aberfan Disaster). This obviously does not make for a good combination. The rain water saturated the soil‚ weakening its integrity. The underground spring loosened the soil underneath‚ cutting out the soil creating air pockets. This helped in weakening the structure

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    Disaster Management

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    saster management Delhi Public School‚ Dwarka A Project on Disaster Management Acknowledgement This report has only been successful because of the help of some people. First and foremost‚ I would like to thank our Social Science teachers - Mrs. Ruchika Gupta (Geography) Mrs. Shalini Chaturvedi (History/Civics) Mrs. Soni Saxena (Economics) For giving me this task from which I could learn many things and also for guiding

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    Disaster Relief I would like to inform people of the great problems we face in the world today in disaster relief. Today we face many disasters all over the world. Some may be man-made and some natural. We have faced many disasters in this world from nation to nation and it’s only getting worse as time goes by. For some reason the government thinks that this is not a big problem and have tried to push it off in many occasions. I know from experience that we are not prepared for these disasters

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    Natural Disasters

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    Natural Disasters Natural disasters affect many people in the world. Over 31‚849‚838 number of people have died from natural disasters since 1900. A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard including tornadoes‚ tsunamis‚ and earthquakes and more. Those natural disasters can lead to financial‚ environmental‚ and human losses. The ten deadliest natural disasters of the past century in order are the China Floods in 1931‚ the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976‚ the Bhola Cyclone in 1970‚ the Haiyuan

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    Natural Disaster

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    Natural Disasters With the tropical climate and unstable landforms‚ coupled with high population density‚ poverty‚ illiteracy and lack of adequate 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

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    natural disaster

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    Introduction A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods‚ volcanic eruptions‚ earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover. An adverse event will not rise to the level of a disaster if it occurs in an area without

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    Natural Disasters

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    affected by natural disasters. These may be caused by climate change such as drought‚ flood‚ and cyclone‚ the environment such as pollution‚ deforestation‚ desertification‚ pest infestation or combinations of these‚ or the destroy of ozone layer will contribute to the green house effect. People’s homes are wiped out and livelihoods are destroyed. Poverty‚ population pressures and environmental degradation mean that increasing numbers of people are vulnerable to natural disasters. In Australia‚ natural

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    Natural Disasters

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    Here are some key points you can use in your essay. Why do Natural disaster occur : here you can include the reasons why natural disaster occurs. the reasons could be both man made and natural. i said man made because there is a theory called "Population theory of Malthus " where its stated that if the balance of population exceeds that of food supply many natural disaster would occur. you can google "Population theory of Malthus" for more details. and the natural ones could be earthquakes on

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    Environmental Disasters

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    2] A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ or landslide). It leads to financial‚ environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard‚ also called their resilience.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability."[2] Environmental disasters are occurring with alarming regularity. But the

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    countries. Poverty is the main focus of giving the foreign aid. This situation always happened to many countries due to the conditions where the people live and from that it will show the quality of living is poor among the people. Foreign aid is given to poor countries that having a limited supply of financial resources‚ food and need helps from other countries such as Malaysia‚ Brunei and Singapore. This essay discussed about the advantages and disadvantages of giving international aid to poor countries

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