Earthquakes are more newsworthy but we ignore other geological hazards at our peril. Discuss. (40marks) Geological hazards are events that are perceived as a threat to people‚ poverty and nature‚ which originate in‚ or transmitted by the physical‚ built or human environment. These can include volcanoes‚ hurricanes and earthquakes‚ which all have various effects ranging from affecting people to the natural and physical environment. Looking at earthquakes in particular‚ which are vibrations of the
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Identify and explain the risk factors for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after Wenchuan earthquake. What are the possible resilient factors? Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that people get anxious after experiencing‚ witnessing a disastrous event. Normally when people feel dangerous about certain situation‚ they feel afraid and feared. It is natural for people to have a ‘fight-or-flight’ response and it is a healthy reaction that protects people from danger. However‚ people
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The Feasibility of Using Plastic and Glass to Produce an Earthquake Resistant and Fire Retardant Hollow Block Chapter 1 Introduction: Most people believed that plastics and glass are one of the main wastes every day‚ but they don’t know that these wastes may help lessen the damages of different catastrophes specifically earthquakes and fires through a hollow block that used in building infrastructures. What is the difference between a commercial cement block to a hollow block mainly composed
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This document includes RES 351 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Preparing to Conduct Business Research Part 3 General Questions - General General Questions Build on Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 1‚ completed in Week Three‚ and Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 2‚ completed in Week Four. Develop or select the instruments your team will use to collect data. Describe how you will sample the population: · What is the appropriate sampling method? ·
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[pic] Level 4 Award in Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS - City & Guilds 6302) [pic] 5th – 7th September 2012 10th ‚12th and 13th December 2012 18th – 20th March 2013 [pic] Assignment 1: Unit 008 (level 4) [pic] Roles‚ responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learning Brief for Assignment 1: unit 008 (level 4): Roles‚ responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learning Use the poster template to write an overview of
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New York State: Natural Disaster Sustainability Program: Preparing for the Next Major Hurricane It is an unfortunate reality that societies seem willing to invest in adequate flood risk reduction only after large disasters. The hurricane protection system of New Orleans was improved at a cost of about $14 billion after the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. The storm surge flooding of 1953 in the Netherlands caused enormous damage and the loss of more than 1‚800 lives. This prompted the development
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of plate tectonics help to explain the world distribution of earthquake and volcanic zones? The Earth’s crust is made up of seven major plates and several smaller plates. These plates drift on top of the mantle. When two plates meet‚ they can either be constructive‚ destructive or conservative. At a conservative plate margin‚ one plate moves past another. As the plates are not smooth‚ great amounts of tension build up and earthquakes are made when the tension is released and the plate moves. An
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Imagine that you are the Chief Executive of Hong Kong‚ what will you plan to do in order to reduce 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
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understanding of the distribution of either earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. Plate tectonics can help us understand the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes very easily‚ it is recorded that main earthquake and volcanic zones are clustered along plate boundaries and more powerful ones are near destructive and conservative plate boundaries. Over time we have learnt that earthquakes that occur on a constructive plate boundary cause little hazard to people‚ earthquakes that occur on two oceanic plates
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Do you agree or disagree: college and universities must do a better job of preparing student for the workplace. At first glance‚ it seems very difficult to us to draw the quick conclusion that modern university is perfect enough to prepare the students for future job or not. There are many people who believe that nowadays the universities have desirable quality to prepare the young student for diversity job. However some many people have opposite attitude toward it. As far as I am concerned
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