A Comprehensive Review of the Health and Economics impacts of the Boxing Day Tsunami 2004 Tharshan Balenthiran‚ Chris Bolton‚ Theo King‚ Matthew Nottage and Michael Moore Contents 3 Introduction 4
Premium 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake Sri Lanka Bay of Bengal
NATIONAL RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT - THE MALDIVES THE MALDIVES Hakura‚ Maldives (10 January 2005). An aerial view of the damaged Hakura resort in the Maldives‚ along a flight path taken by the UN Secretary-General‚ Kofi Annan‚ who travelled to the region. At least 23 of the 87 tourist resorts in the Maldives were devastated in the 26 December tsunami. © Sena Vidanagama/AFP/Getty Images 76 77 NATIONAL RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT - THE MALDIVES 5. 5.1 NATIONAL RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL
Premium Maldives 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake Coral reef
EARTHQUAKE PERFORMANCE OF REINFOCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS: A CASE STUDY FROM MARMARA TURKEY Korkut Mirzai 08074260 Bachelor Science with Honors Degree in Construction Project Management. Oxford Brookes University. Department of the Built of Environment. March 2012 List of Abbreviations: RC: Reinforcement Concrete TR: Turkey UK: United Kingdom USA: United States of America EU: European Union MHI: Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure EQ: Earthquake Code EE: Earthquake Engineering TSE: Turkish
Premium Construction Earthquake Building
Identify and explain the risk factors for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after Wenchuan earthquake. What are the possible resilient factors? Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that people get anxious after experiencing‚ witnessing a disastrous event. Normally when people feel dangerous about certain situation‚ they feel afraid and feared. It is natural for people to have a ‘fight-or-flight’ response and it is a healthy reaction that protects people from danger. However‚ people
Premium Posttraumatic stress disorder Psychological trauma Cognitive behavioral therapy
The Feasibility of Using Plastic and Glass to Produce an Earthquake Resistant and Fire Retardant Hollow Block Chapter 1 Introduction: Most people believed that plastics and glass are one of the main wastes every day‚ but they don’t know that these wastes may help lessen the damages of different catastrophes specifically earthquakes and fires through a hollow block that used in building infrastructures. What is the difference between a commercial cement block to a hollow block mainly composed
Premium Glass Bottle Recyclable materials
of plate tectonics help to explain the world distribution of earthquake and volcanic zones? The Earth’s crust is made up of seven major plates and several smaller plates. These plates drift on top of the mantle. When two plates meet‚ they can either be constructive‚ destructive or conservative. At a conservative plate margin‚ one plate moves past another. As the plates are not smooth‚ great amounts of tension build up and earthquakes are made when the tension is released and the plate moves. An
Premium Plate tectonics
understanding of the distribution of either earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. Plate tectonics can help us understand the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes very easily‚ it is recorded that main earthquake and volcanic zones are clustered along plate boundaries and more powerful ones are near destructive and conservative plate boundaries. Over time we have learnt that earthquakes that occur on a constructive plate boundary cause little hazard to people‚ earthquakes that occur on two oceanic plates
Premium Plate tectonics
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
Premium Earthquake Hong Kong
but are often human disasters” Discuss this statement in relation to seismic events (40marks) For the purpose of this essay‚ a natural disaster is an event resulting from the natural process of plate tectonic movement causing a seismic event (an earthquake and/or tsunami). The statement in the question suggests that Natural Disasters impact humans more than the environment. The essay will discuss whether seismic events cause a disaster that impacts humans more than the environment. One aspect which
Premium Earthquake Seismology Japan
seismic events can take place all over the world and therefore both more economically developed countries (MEDCs) and less economically developed countries (LEDCs) can be affected. In the last 30 years there have been multiple examples of where volcanic and seismic events have had an impact on both MEDCs and LEDCs. Some of these include the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and the consequential tsunami. In this essay I will show how the impact of volcanic and seismic events have
Premium Volcano 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake Earthquake