The 1906 San Francisco earthquake is widely believed to be the most significant earthquake of all time with regards to destruction‚ loss of life‚ and subsequent learnings. On the 110th anniversary of the April 18th‚ 1906 earthquake‚ we delve into how our understanding of earthquakes has developed and how this particular earthquake helped further our understanding. In 1906 San Francisco was a thriving city of 400‚000 and an important economic and trading center of the U.S. west coast. On April 18th
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of earthquake hazards depends primarily on human factors (40) Plan: Intro –What is a hazard? - Human and Physical Factors – How to manage with events Main – Natural Hazards – Human Factors – Management – Case Studies –California 1994 –Gujarat 2001 –Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004 Earthquake Hazards occur when there are adverse effects on human activities. This can include surface faulting‚ ground shaking and liquefaction. In this essay I will be discussing the factors that affect earthquakes‚ whether
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Natural Disasters of the Last 100 years 2010 Haiti earthquake The 2010 Haiti earthquake was an earthquake of catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw‚ with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne‚ approximately 25 km west of the capital of Haiti. The earthquake occurred at 4:53 local time on Tuesday January 12‚ 2010. For January 24 were at least 52 replicates of 4.5 or greater. An estimated three million people were affected by the earthquake. The highest death toll is estimated at 220‚000. Haitian government
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4. Topic: US to resume shortly Haiti medical evacuation flights 5. Setting: place: in a column of online BBC newspaper; time: February 2nd‚ 2010 6. Channel: writing 7. Code: Standard American English 8. Message-form: journal article 9. Event: BBC news 10. Key: informative‚ updated 11. Purpose: to inform about actions of the USA government to help Haiti and some other related issues. ----------------------- US to resume shortly Haiti medical evacuation flights The
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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 in 2010‚ The Haiti tremor has caused over 200‚000 deaths estimated by the Haiti government with a
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Haiti possesses the western third of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola‚ which it offers with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is marginally littler than the condition of Maryland and lies only southeast of Cuba. Haiti is exceptionally uneven. Truth be told‚ the word Ayiti was a Taino (the first occupants of Haiti) word for place where there is mountains. The capital of Haiti is Port–au–Prince‚ which lies in the focal point of the nation‚ on the coast. Other essential urban communities incorporate Cap
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system in which the people come together for the good of the whole‚ not just the one. When a natural disaster like a hurricane or an earthquake occur‚ criticism of how the situation could have been handled better always comes up‚ and the suggestion that the best approach for effective relief efforts is that of socialist system. When the devastating earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010‚ reports of the‚ lack of Haitian government’s response flooded the media. There were rescue workers from around the
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Summary for “Denaturalizing ‘Natural’ Disasters: Haiti’s Earthquake and the Humanitarian Impulse from p.264 to p.268 in “Become an Active Reader” by Andrew D. Pinto‚ On 12 January 2010‚ at 16:53 local time‚ Haiti experienced a catastrophic magnitude-7.0 earthquake 25 kilometres west of the capital‚ Port-au-Prince. More than 220‚000 people died and 2.3 million were displaced‚ while the magnitude-8.0 earthquake that struck Chile on 27 February 2010 resulted in fewer than 800 deaths‚ despite its higher
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Marks：_______/100 Title Service Delivery of Non-governmental Organizations: The Case of Emergency Response of CARE to Haiti Earthquake Abstract: In this case study‚ the author will give a review on the service delivery of CARE in Haiti after the earthquake happened in January‚ 2010. Through the case study‚ the services delivered by CARE are presented. By analyzing the case‚ we can know much better on how NGOs carry out the service delivery in a specific area and what the results are
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Impact of Kashmir earthquake of 2005 and its effect on the Pakistani Economy Abstract This paper will detail the events of the Kashmir earthquake of 2005 in Pakistan and examine its deleterious social and economic effects on the population in this region. Through the use of a variety of primary and secondary sources‚ this paper will seek to identify the causes of the damage and the reasons for which its primary and secondary effects were so harmful. It will analyze the earthquake and its repercussions
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