have voiced their concern on damaging impacts caused by the dam‚ including landslides which have consequently caused waves of 50 metres high in the reservoir directly behind the dam. It’s only been since September‚ at a government - organized conference that the severity of the impacts was touched upon without being dismissed as ‘abnormalities’. Many of the officials running the project brought up that erosion‚ landslides‚ environmental degradation and natural disasters have all become more frequent
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would become dominant in certain areas. In Malaysia‚ oil palm became the dominant species while the other species of plants would lose out and face extinction. Another major effect of deforestation is the higher occurrence of landslides. In Bukit Antarabangsa‚ Malaysia‚ landslides have been occuring
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Eventually‚ a call came asking the street player to get into a nearby white limousine. A man entered the car and sat next to the street player. The man began to ask a few additional questions‚ including‚ If a stranger was having a personal crisis‚ someone you had never met nor spoken to before‚ do you think you could call and offer
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various places across this mountain. Cloudbursts‚ that is sudden and violent rainfall‚ followed by flash floods are generally reported in the monsoon period. Such events are related to extreme hydrometeorolgical conditions leading to debris flow‚ landslide and eventually the blockade of river channels‚ which consequently wreak havoc downstream. The Alaknanda flood of 1970‚ considered to be the worst disaster of its kind in northwest India of the last century‚ was triggered by a cloudburst followed
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research:The OCD said the flashfloods and landslides hit New Bataan‚ a first-class municipality in the gold-rush area of Mt.Diwalwal‚ which is surrounded by mountain ranges that supposedly keep away from typhoons.Diwalwal is categorized by Environment and disaster agencies‚ however‚ as one with a high geohazard risk‚ owing to the activities of small miners. Two days before Pablo struck authorities had issued an appeal to them to stop in order to cut the risk of landslides. At least 20 people went missing
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------------------------------------------------- The role of "students" in any capacity is to learn as much as they can about the subject at hand. In the case of disaster management‚ this is a very wide open field. A student should learn causes of disasters and figure out ways to reduce the risk of an catastrophe from happening in the first place. Here is what wikipedia has to say about disaster management: Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline of dealing with
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was the extremely unusual behaviour of the monsoon this year over north India. The incessant‚ heavy rainfall over three days‚ perhaps accompanied by a few cloudburst-type events (which cannot be confirmed)‚ resulted in flash floods and associated landslides. The devastation all round in their wake has been huge but the largest impact has been at the temple town of Kedarnath‚ which was in the midst of the annual pilgrimage season‚ with tens of thousands of people thronging the town and the downstream
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The Indian Monsoon The monsoon is a yearly cycle‚ where the direction of the wind changes‚ bringing storms and rainfall to the land‚ and when the wind changes again it brings drought to the land. This creates a wet and a dry season in some areas‚ such as the Indian region. However‚ this is not a set of wet and dry seasons‚ the monsoon varies from year to year and even from day to day. The word “monsoon” is believed to have originated from the Arabic word mausem‚ which itself means “season” (Fein
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Fallstudie DaimlerChrysler Inhaltsverzeichnis 2 Executive Summary 3 STP-Marketing 4 Marktsegmentierung 4 Zielmarktfestlegung 5 Produktpositionierung 5 Executive Summary Mit Hilfe der Branchenanalyse versuchten wir das Umfeld der Automobilindustrie zu durchleuchten. Dabei fiel vor allem die geringe Anzahl der direkten Konkurrenten auf. In der Automobilindustrie gibt es nur einige wenige bedeutende Firmen‚ die allerdings meist weltweit tätig sind und mehrere Marken besitzen. Die SWOT-
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there is a large displacement of water. Based on the article‚ “Tsunamis are caused by landslides‚ volcanoes‚ or earthquakes that occur on the ocean floor” (Simmons 61). A tsunami could be caused deep underwater from an earthquake or the rumble of a volcano‚ and even from the effect of a landslide. Finally‚ tsunamis are a bunch of enormous waves caused by natural disasters like earthquakes‚ volcanoes‚ landslides‚ and even meteorites. Rogue waves and tsunamis share many causes and effects‚ but both
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