Discuss the view that the impact of earthquake hazards depends primarily on human factors (40 marks) Earthquakes are an example of seismic activity caused by the build-up of tension at the three types of plate boundaries: destructive‚ constructive and conservative. The pressure is suddenly released as the plates jerk past each other‚ sending out seismic waves from the focus that travel through different parts of the earth. The movement of convection currents within the Earth’s mantle causing the
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL Audit Follow-Up Process Needed for the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board Report No. 13-P-0128 Scan this code to learn more about the EPA OIG. February 1‚ 2013 Report Contributors: Gloria Taylor-Upshaw Richard Eyermann Michael Davis Bettye Bell-Daniel Michael Binder Abbreviations CSB EPA FY GAO IG MATS OIG OMB U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Fiscal Year U.S. Government
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Solid waste management is defined as the control of waste generation‚ storage‚ collection‚ transfer and transport‚ processing and disposal of solid wastes consistent with the best practices of public health‚ economics‚ financial‚ engineering‚ administrative‚ legal and environmental considerations. Solid waste is sewage other than hazardous waste. There are 8 categories of solid waste which are commercial waste‚ construction waste‚ domestic waste‚ industrial waste‚ institution waste‚ import waste
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Explain why some places have a high level of landslide and avalanche hazard risk. Land slides and Avalanches are one of the worlds most major natural hazard types. They kill between 25 and 50 people per year and cost the United States $3.5 billion to repair per year. Landslides are caused when soil is disrupted. For example when deforestation occurs it removes the roots from the soil. The soil can then not hold it self together so when it rains the soil becomes saturated and falls. They can also
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“Modern Gadgets: Daily Useful Applications versus Health Hazard to Mankind” By: Jason Pablo Fame Angelo Baltazar INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Modernization has invaded the whole humanity. With these gadgets around us‚ life becomes very convenient in many aspects. People find it very easy in sending their mails to their recipient through quicker access called e-mails. People can even communicate at the farthest distance just because of this advance technology that exists now. Practical
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“The hazards presented by volcanic and seismic events have the greatest impact on the world’s poorest people.” To what extent do you agree with this view? (40 marks) Volcanic and 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
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normal human life‚ including environmental‚ social‚ economic‚ political‚ and biological systems (Bankoff 2004:10). To understand why disasters have such wide ranging affects and how we can effectively manage them‚ we must understand the concepts of hazard‚ risk and vulnerability. Risk in regard to disaster is the likelihood or probability of harmful consequences happening; awareness of risk gives us the ability to define what could happen in the future‚ based on a range of possible outcomes. The ability
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A hazard is a situation that poses a level of threat to life‚ health‚ property‚ or environment. There is a very big difference that helps prepare for a volcanic hazard and that is whether you are in a MEDC or a LEDC. In a MEDC monitoring volcanic zones and potential hazards is an option many LEDC’s don’t have. In Italy at Mt Etna they have Geochemical monitoring programs currently run by INGV which focus on the analysis of temporal changes‚ chemical changes and seismic activity. This option open
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P1: explain potential hazards and harms that may arise from each in a health or social care setting. Hazard number 1: Doors being left open. Doors are being left open is a big hazard because it opens a various amounts of hazards such as the children walking through the nursery alone without supervision. Having a doors open can also allow people to come into the nursery which jeopardizes the safeguarding of the nursery. The nursery overcomes this by having code locks on all entrances of the nursery
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’The hazards presented by tropical revolving storms have the greatest impact on the world’s poorest people.’ Discuss. Tropical revolving storms occur in every area of the world‚ affecting both the richest and poorest countries. The effects of such storms can be devastating to even the richest and most developed countries; however it is often the case that poorer countries are affected most adversely by tropical revolving storms in both humanitarian and economic terms. For example‚ whilst tropical
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