Landslides The landslides are simply defined as the mass movement of rock‚ debris or earth down and have to include a broad range of motions whereby falling‚ sliding and flowing under the influence of gravity dislodges earth material. They often take place in conjunction with earthquakes‚ floods and volcanoes. The Himalayan Mountain‚ the north-east hill ranges and the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris experience considerable landslide activities of varying intensities. Also called landslip; Downward
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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION DISASTER PREPAREDENESS PLAN COMPILED BY :NUNURAYI GLADYS TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS EMERGENCY PLAN COMMITTEE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PREFACE INTRODUCTION POLICY STATEMENT MISSION STATEMENT MANDATE PREPARATION RESPONSIBILITY OF THE COMMITTEEAND COMPOSITION ROLE OF THE COMMITTEE IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF THREAT EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS RESPONSE SURVEY PLANNING RECOVERY REPORTING
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The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6‚ 1937. A German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was engulfed while its attempt to dock at the Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township‚ New Jersey‚ United States. The fire was ignited by an electrostatic discharge which sparked leaking hydrogen from the zeppelin. In order to make up for extra than 12 hours in its transatlantic flight‚ the Hindenburg passed via a weather front of excessive humidity and high electric charge. Even
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but there is the possibility of preventing them. Even with all the different hazards in the world one of the keys to surviving them is effective emergency management preparedness. Through the years‚ disaster preparedness has seen many changes and many meanings; to be able to enhance future disaster preparedness we need to look at the past and the present‚ in order to see the future. The media has talked endlessly about several terms since the events of September 11 (Sebastian‚ 2007). These terms
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Title: ‘Discuss how response to a humanitarian disaster could be improved through vertical and horizontal collaboration between the various actors’ 1. PURPOSE 2. APPROACH 3. LIMITATIONS Firstly I will outline who the actual ‘actors’ involves in a humanitarian disaster are with the use of Kovács & Spens‚ 2007 diagram provided in our lecture notes. The whole idea of ‘Collaboration’ which has two separate dimensions: 1. Vertical collaboration i.e. between supplier sand customers
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The psychological and psychiatric impact of great natural disasters are beginning to be understood leading to new methods of prevention‚ intervention and mitigation. There is limited data from the Asian continent‚ however‚ which has been the location of some of the greatest disasters of recent times. In this paper‚ we outline the psychosocial intervention efforts from nine Asian nations when confronted with large-scale natural catastrophic events. These include reports from situations where local
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baby boy. On July twenty-second of two-thousand four‚ Karsten Luke Armstrong was born. As a premature baby‚ life was hard for Karsten the first month and a half. However he managed‚ and came home on August fourteenth‚ two-thousand four. It was the best birthday present I had ever gotten! I thought to myself‚ "I‚ Hannah Marie Armstrong was finally going to be the "big" sister"! School had been started back for a while I’ll never forget that year. I was in Mrs. Varney’s third grade class‚ and my
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People are not always what they seem to be. Roger Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter shows that everyone sins but some people’s sins are worse than others.The Scarlet Letter shows Chillingworth’s sins throughout the book. One of Hawthorne’s intentions was having Chillingworth as the worst sinner‚ because he used his herbs to keep Dimmesdale alive-he prolonged Dimmesdale’s torture‚ he used “black medicine”‚ and when Dimmesdale stopped taking the herbs‚ he passed away. Roger Chillingworth came to
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6.4 Man-m ade Disasters 6.4.1 Introduction Even if it is true that our libraries are overflowing with books‚ never before in the history of mankind has there been a century as destructive to books as the twentieth. Two world wars and numerous armed conflicts have exacted their toll‚ many totalitarian regimes have purged libraries of publications and what is left is often damage d by water o r fire. Man h as been m ore destruc tive to the cultural h eritage than na ture. Mo st of this damage
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Laurenz Carlo G. Salindong Mr. E.P. Salazar Composition IV 17 August 2012 Bring It Back to the Gold Standard The 2007 global financial crisis considered by many economists to be the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s caused the downfall of large financial institutions such as drop of interconnected stock markets and the bailing out of major banks. This was triggered by the complex interplay of over-valuated mortgages‚ accumulated malpractice of trading between buyers and sellers
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