Earthquake Do’s & Don’ts* Disaster is a sudden calamity that brings destruction‚ damage‚ devastation (3Ds) that results loss to life and property. Natural disasters are often frightening and difficult for us to understand‚ because we have no control over when and where they happen. Disasters usually have following features: • Unpredictability • Sudden • Unfamiliarity • Shock reaction • Confusion • Panic God forbid‚ Natural disasters sometimes appear in the form of Earthquakes‚ Volcanic eruptions
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PRESS RELEASE Flying with VietJetAir now includes hotel offers with Agoda (Ho Chi Minh City‚ January 5‚ 2013) – Besides offering the best possible deals for air travel‚ Vietnam’s largest low-cost carrier VietJetAir has launched a hotel booking service in corporation with the worldwide hotel reservation group Agoda‚ which means customers can enjoy even more incredible discounts on upcoming holidays or business trips when purchasing a ticket online. By booking a hotel room on www.vietjetair
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extreme deforestation and soil erosion could have possibly contributed to the vertical slippage of plates due to the increased water weight on the plates (Ader‚ 2011) (Wdowinski‚ Tsukanov‚ Hong‚ & Amelung‚ 2010). Coincidentally‚ prior to the earthquake‚ Haiti experienced two tropical storms and a major hurricane in 2010; which may corroborate geologists’ assertion that increased soil erosion from these extreme weather events may have triggered the 2010 earthquake in Haiti (Ader‚ 2011) (Wdowinski‚ Tsukanov
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but unfortunately the massive earthquake that hit on 26th December 2003 at 05:26 local time destroyed the entire city. An estimation from the United States Geological Survey reports that the earthquake measured 6.6 on the Richter scale‚ they also say that the epicentre was 185km southeast of Kerman. Before After The Earthquake This huge earthquake took the lives of 26‚271 people
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International Islamic University‚ Islamabad (IIUI) organized Prize Distribution Ceremony of Annual Sports 2013 at Female Campus of the university. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Yousif Al-Draiweesh‚ President IIUI as chief guest presided over the ceremony while‚ Director female campus of IIUI Dr. Zaitoon Baghim‚ Student Advisor female Dr. Munza Yaqoob‚ faculty members of different departments and large number of students were also present on the occasion. In his address‚ President‚ Prof. Dr. Ahmed Yousif al-Draiweesh
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Mikela Sammy U62 Caribbean Studies QUESTION: Access the measures that Caribbean countries could realistically undertake to minimize the danger posed by earthquakes. An earthquake is a sudden and violent shaking of the ground‚ sometimes causing great destruction‚ as a result of movements within the earth’s crust or volcanic action. This happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another. The Earth’s crust is made up of about a dozen plates on which the continents and oceans
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Loma Prieta Earthquake Story Teller By: Kavita Butani There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes‚ we cannot prevent droughts‚ and we cannot prevent conflict. Earthquakes and the damages they bring have affected the lives of many people around the world forever. As our community grows so does the danger caused by these quakes also increases by mass. Earthquakes can affect our lives in many ways; this type of natural disaster can upset everything from
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Recent Earthquakes: Philippines Kaitlyn Denson 7th period 9/3/12 This report was taken by a seismologist on August 31‚ 2012 19:43:10‚ after an earthquake struck in the Philippines. On this past Friday‚ an earthquake in the Philippines rose panic in the hearts of its people‚ in fear of a large tsunami. The magnitude-7.6
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What are Earthquakes? The actual defining of a earthquake is: A sudden and violent shaking of the ground‚ sometimes causing great destruction‚ as a result of movements within the earth’s crust or volcanic action. Basically what its saying is that when a tectonic plate slips past another and when that happens its called a fault or fault plane‚ but when a earthquake happens it has been proven that it can deform the earths crust permanently. Something interesting is
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After a long day at work‚ you eat dinner and retire to bed to do the same thing the next day. But what if tomorrow did not come? What if a natural disaster happened while you were sleeping? The house collapses‚ fire erupts‚ the town floods. Any of these things are possible. Do people ever really plan for them though? The common thought process is that that will never happen to me‚ not here. There is no guarantee in that though‚ and the people of Izmit Turkey figured this out the hard way. It took
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