Natural Disaster/Hazard Paper For my paper I will be talking about the 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17‚ 1994. The earthquake was centered in Reseda‚ a neighborhood in the north-central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles‚ California. “It was a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that lasted 10 – 20 seconds. In addition‚ two 6.0 magnitude aftershocks occurred‚ the first about one minute after the initial event and the second approximately 11 hours later‚ the strongest of several thousand
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All these tools are known the classic principles of arguments. (Lamm & Everett‚ 2007) In the essay written “The Water Revealed” written by Jim Wallis‚ Willis uses all three appeals in his argument. Hurricane Katrina was a devastating natural disaster that everyone around the world remembers. Hurricane Katrina produced so much water that the levees around New Orleans could not withstand the pressure and the levees broke. Was it really Katrina that caused all the damage in New Orleans or was it
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TRAGEDY By URJIT ZAVERI 14BLS119 On the night of December 2‚ 1984 forty one metric tons of methyl isocyanate also known as MIC was released from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. After one year of this incident almost 1800 people dies in this disaster and 320‚000 people had been affected by it. By 1991‚around 4000 people dies because of the gas in their body. Union carbide was a U.S company that started manufacturing pesticides in Bhopal‚ India. The valve malfunctioned on the 2nd December 1984
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largest providers of products and services to the energy industry‚” according to their website homepage. Transocean is an offshore drilling company helps companies such as BP find oil and natural gas reserves. Yet people call the oil spill the “BP oil disaster”. Due to the fact that BP was the company who was running operations‚ they are the ones to be ultimately responsible. Both BP and Transocean have taken responsibility for their actions‚ but Halliburton has denied any responsibility for this
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the possibility of natural disasters is varied when it comes to rebuilding and housing before‚ after and during the natural disasters. Their essential knowledge and invaluable skills about‚ building materials‚ design and attention to detail is imperative in the prevention of damage to buildings. However‚ unless the architect’s role begins to change similarly to keep up with our changing environment‚ buildings today can’t withstand the increase number of natural disasters‚ which our world today is
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covers the nuclear disasters so they are most familiar with those. The last question was‚ “What is the first thing that comes to your mind when discussing nuclear energy?” The most notable response was Chernobyl. This is very common of people to think about when pondering nuclear energy. This is the most documented and historical significant nuclear plant disaster. In the survey everything went as expected. There were no surprises‚ almost everyone thought of a nuclear disaster and didn’t support
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were equally responsible for the disaster ? explain with reasons. Ans 1]} In 1985 the Indian government enacted the Bhopal Claims Act and took away from victims the right to represent them and vested itself with the exclusive right to represent victims. In return for a modest and arbitrarily determined financial payment to victims‚ the settlement bestowed sweeping civil and criminal immunity on UCC‚ trading off its legal liability‚ excluding the victims of the disaster from shaping the end of the case
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2 Task 2: Business Continuity Plan Ronald Horne 5/28/2015 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PURPOSE OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN The Business Continuity Plan is designed to prepare an organization to continue doing business when a disaster strikes. The BCP differs from the traditional disaster recovery plan in the fact that a BCP covers all aspects of the business and incorporates the DRP as part of it. The DRP focuses on restoring data and on information technology only. BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN 1.2 SCOPE
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Crisis Hurricane Katrina was considered as one natural disaster. But in reality it was two disasters. The initial disaster was a natural disaster which ripped the coastlands of Louisiana and Mississippi to shreds and left New Orleans a wasteland. The second disaster was the lack of communication and response that took place between federal‚ regional‚ state‚ and local relief agencies and efforts after the hurricane. The two disasters combined have caused a lot of damages to a vast human population
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warnings for Russia‚ Taiwan‚ Hawaii‚ Indonesia‚ the Marshall Islands‚ Papua New Guinea‚ Australia‚ and the west coasts the U.S.‚ Mexico‚ Central America‚ and South America. According to the official toll‚ the disasters left 15‚839 dead‚ 5‚950 injured‚ and 3‚642 missing. Earthquake Causes Nuclear Disaster What’s more‚ cooling systems in one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in the Fukushima prefecture on the east coast of Japan failed shortly after the earthquake‚ causing a
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