NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT A Supplementary Textbook in Geography for Class XI on UNIT 11 : Natural Hazards and Disasters CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION PREET VIHAR‚ DELHI - 110092 FIRST EDITION 2006 © CBSE‚ DELHI Price: Published By: The Secretary‚ Central Board of Secondary Education‚ 2‚ Community Centre‚ Preet Vihar‚ Delhi-110092 Design‚ Layout and Illustration By: Chandu Press‚ D-97‚ Shakarpur‚ Delhi-110092 Printed By: Chandu Press‚ D-97‚ Shakarpur‚ Delhi-110092
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster A First-Hand Account of Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Katsumi Furitsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Young doctors speak out on the Fukushima disaster . . . . . . . . . . .40 Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare Ronald McCoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 “A terribly difficult situation with a lot of uncertainties”: PSR Press Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Response and Local Emergency Managers The local response is the first responders to deal with the hazards in a plan and organized way. The local response consists of firefighter‚ police officer and emergency medical service to a hazardous incident. After the Hurricane Katrina incident FEMA had required all first responder to properly train in the Incident Command System (ICS)‚ so to eligible for federal grant funds. The local emergency manager is primarily over the providing an emergency plan for the
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Emergency Department Triage Triage is an essential element of providing care to patients who present at a hospital emergency department. Triage is defined as a brief clinical assessment that determines the time and sequence in which patients should be seen in the emergency department. During triage‚ an emergency department nurse interviews a patient or the patient’s representative about the medical problem causing concern‚ makes a brief evaluation of the patient‚ and takes the patient’s vital signs
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Wrong Site Surgeries Wrong Site Surgeries Wrong site surgeries are very rare‚ but sometimes wrong site surgeries happen. The wrong site surgeries have damaging results for the patient and pose a huge safety problems within the organization. Usually communication breakdown is considered the main cause of wrong site surgeries in the surgical team. The Joint Commission ’s universal protocol of "time out" is a very important and a helpful tool in preventing the wrong site surgeries‚ wrong
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I want to go to college because I want to become an educated person‚ because I want to set an example to my daughter that no matter the difficulties‚ when you really want something you can want get it by working hard for it. Coming back to college after having my baby has really been the biggest obstacle I have had to overcome. At that time everything was immensely complicated for me. I didn’t have daycare or anyone to take care of my daughter. I was financially unstable and my desires to return
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CHAPTER1. INTRODUCTION A social networking site is described as a website where individuals can set up an online profile‚ describing his/her interests”( Ebony pg.1).A Web site that provides a virtual community for people to share their daily or even moment-to-moment activities with family and friends‚ or to share their interest in a particular topic‚ or to increase their circle of acquaintances. There are dating sites‚ friendship sites‚ sites with a business purpose and hybrids that offer a combination
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What is the state of emergency? A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend some normal functions of the executive‚ legislative and judicial powers‚ alert citizens to change their normal behaviours‚ or order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. It can also be used as a rationale for suspending rights and freedoms‚ even if guaranteed under the constitution. In some countries‚ the state of emergency and its effects on human rights and freedoms and
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compares with your chosen comparison sites and can highlight the areas that require attention. The review should be repeated periodically to see how your site has improved/maintained its ratings. Score each Website issue out of 10 where 0 is not available at all‚ 1 is extremely poorly represented and 10 is extremely well represented. The issues with an asterisk are generally considered to be detrimental to most websites and thus if they are applicable to the sites you are reviewing you might decide
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Contents 01. – The importance of site investigation Page 2 – 4 1.02 – Trial Pits Page 4 1.03 – Auger holes Page 4 – 5 1.04 – Boreholes Page 5 – 7 1.05 – Soil sampling Page 7 1.06 – In-situ testing Page 8 1.07 – Quasi-static cone penetration testing Page 8 – 9 1.08 – Dynamic probing Page 10 1.09 – The Standard Penetration Test Page 11 1.10 – Field vane test Page 12 1.11 – Classifications of Soils Page 13 1.12 – Size range of grains Page 13 – 14 2.00 –
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