Natural Disasters We have all seen the awful effects of a flood or an earthquake - if we’re lucky only on the news. About 75 percent of the world’s population live in areas affected at least once by earthquake‚ tropical cyclone‚ flood or drought between 1980 and 2000 (Reducing Disaster Risk UNDP report‚ 2005). What causes natural disasters? First we need to get a bit technical. Natural hazards and natural disasters may sound like the same thing but there is a small but vital
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The MODIS is the primary instrument in the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua satellites‚ which were launched in December 1999 and May 2002 respectively‚ for the purpose of monitoring the seasonality of global terrestrial vegetation. MODIS is a multi-spectral sensor with 36 discrete spectral bands ranging from visible‚ near infrared‚ to thermal infrared‚ which has been extensively used for land‚ ocean and atmosphere research. The equatorial crossing time for Terra and Aqua satellites
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Nuclear disasters From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The list of the worst disasters at nuclear power plants and other facilities all over the world is presented below: During the 2011 Fukushima nuclear emergency in Japan‚ three nuclear reactors were damaged by explosions. Following an earthquake‚ tsunami‚ and failure of cooling systems at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan on March 11‚ 2011‚ a nuclear emergency was declared. This was the first time a nuclear emergency had
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prepared for disasters? Disasters happen when a risk realized overwhelms the response capability of the community. Disaster can strike anywhere‚ anytime with or without warning. All countries are vulnerable to disasters and the only difference is how well the response of the community is. This is where Disaster Risk Management (DRM) comes in. DRM is a tool that organizes the communities’ resources and people to help them prepare for disasters and how to recover from it. This paper aims to discuss the factors
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The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after 73 seconds into flames in flight on January 28‚ 1986 with one of the seven astronauts‚ a school teacher Christa McAuliffe aboard. This incident Challenger present us a case study in organizational communication‚ ethics and culture as it promotes or discourages necessary communication and the ethics of whistle blowing. Pressures developed because of the need to meet customers’ promises‚ which forced obligation to launch a certain number of flights per
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Mining disaster in the past have been referred to mining accidents claiming five or more lives. Mine disasters once were really common. In the single year of 1907 there were 18 coal mine disasters.. Among the disasters in 1907 was history’s worst the Monongah coal mine explosion‚ which claimed 362 lives and impelled Congress to create the Bureau of Mines. I will discuss this disaster more later in this paper. Mine accidents have declined dramatically in number and severity through
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Chernobyl Disaster Today‚ I am going to discuss about the biggest nuclear disaster that happened in the Worlds History. It’s called as Chernobyl disaster. This Disaster happened in Ukraine which was part of Soviet Union by then. It happened at the Chernobyl site between Pripyat and Chernobyl. The reason of this disaster is mainly human negligence and lack of knowledge. 25 April 1986... It was a beautiful Friday night with cool breeze blowing with a slight humidity. People were in their homes
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The book Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman should be a book that is praised by everyone and is found significant in everyone’s lives‚ for it offers a great deal of knowledge and experience within the subject of mental illnesses. This particular novel gives the reader a secret look at what it is like to be a teenager plagued by mental illnesses‚ which is why it is definitely worth reading. A few reasons as to why the novel should be read include: the novel passes an important message to the reader
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Article Review NASA/JPL‚ “NASA rover finds old streambed on martian surface”. Astronomy. September‚ 2012. The article I’m writing about is about the NASA Curiosity Rover and how it’s doing on its trip to mars. The reason that NASA has sent this rover is to find potential signs of life on the surface of mars. They are trying to find evidence that there once has been enough resources to have any kind of life on mars. NASA has sent a rover to Mars called the Curiosity Rover. It is on its way
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1. Mariner Bugs Out (1962) Cost: $18.5 million Disaster: The Mariner 1 rocket with a space probe headed for Venus diverted from its intended flight path shortly after launch. Mission Control destroyed the rocket 293 seconds after liftoff. Cause: A programmer incorrectly transcribed a handwritten formula into computer code‚ missing a single superscript bar. Without the smoothing function indicated by the bar‚ the software treated normal variations of velocity as if they were serious‚ causing
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