earthquakes destroy gas pipes and electric cables‚ causing fires to spread. Broken water mains prevent the Fires being extinguished. Fires spread very quickly in cities‚ especially in poor-quality housing areas where wooden buildings are common. Tsunamis - an earthquake on the sea floor or close to the coast may cause huge waves. Landslides - earthquakes often cause landslides‚ especially in steep river valleys and areas of weak rocks. Disease and famine - fresh water supplies are often cut off
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ECONOMIC LIFE OF ASIA The economy of Asia comprises more than 4 billion people (60% of the world population) living in 46 different states. Six further states lie partly in Asia‚ but are considered to belong to another region economically and politically. As in all world regions‚ the wealth of Asia differs widely between‚ and within‚ states. This is due to its vast size‚ meaning a huge range of differing cultures‚ environments‚ historical ties and government systems. The largest
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head: Military Intervention in Syria 2 Introduction The 2011 year has left the world with plenty of worries about different accidents and catastrophes. There were such huge disasters as floods in Pakistan and Thailand‚ earthquakes in Haiti‚ in Turkey and the devastating tsunami in Japan that led to explosion in nuclear power plant. There was another event that took its beginning in February of that mysterious year – the conflict in Syria. To remind‚ the opposition of Syria rebelled the President
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leader with 9.03 million dollars of sales‚ followed by VW with 8.16 million dollars in sales and finally Toyota with 7.9 million dollars. However‚ these results can be partly explained by not only the 2009-2010 recalls but also the Japanese tsunami and the Thailand floods that affected the supply of car parts. These results don’t mean that Toyota cannot make a comeback‚ opposed to that‚ data from the 1st quarter of 2012 shows that Toyota is the leader in sales‚
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An earthquake of a magnitude of 9.0 that occurred in Japan at 2:46 pm on Friday March 11‚ 2011 did a significant amount of damage in the region‚ as the following tsunami did even much more damage‚ flooding about 560 square kilometers resulting in a human death toll of about 19‚000 and the destruction of coastal ports‚ towns and buildings (Fukushima Accident‚ 2016). Eleven reactors at four different nuclear power plants in the region were operating at the time and were all shut down when the earthquake
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Due to the quake‚ an upthrust of ten metres from the pacific plate resulted in an enormous tsunami. The force caused devastating fifteen metre waves to propel against the north east coastline of Japan and the waves travelled a distance of 10km inland. The tsunami contributed to the astonishing 15‚ 891 deaths‚ flooding cities and demolishing everything in its path. Not only did the tsunami do enough damage but it disabled the cool down of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants due to
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Business Environment Individual Powerpoint Presentation An analysis of Electrocomponent plc’s business environment Student Name: Student ID World Count:1000 Date:16th January 2012 Electrocomponents plc Electrocomponents plc is a high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products. It has two brands – RS Components and Allied Electronics. It operates in 32 countries and another 37 through dustributors. It is a European technology hardware and equipment sector.
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An earth quake can be described as a shaking of the Earth’s crust. It is mainly a movement of the whole crust that originates in the center of the earth. Earthquakes happen when the underlying rock suddenly shakes or breaks off. The moving of the underlying rock causes the surface rocks to slide and‚ as a result‚ leads to the earthquakes. Earthquakes can be extremely disastrous and cause a lot of damage in the place where they happen. The earthquake can happen once or happen as a series. This depends
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the area knew to expect a tsunami and most evacuated the coast immediately. The earthquake caused huge landslides of debris down the mountains of the region‚ as well as a series of tsunamis in the coastal region of Chile. The shock is generally agreed to have had a magnitude of 9.5‚ though some studies alternately proposed that it may have been 9.4 or 9.6. The epicenter was near Valdivia‚ Chile some 700 kilometers south of Santiago. It caused localized tsunamis that severely battered the
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over 300‚000 thousand were injured. Earthquake in Haiti’s create tremendous medical disaster with near total destruction of the Haitian health care system. Not just the earthquake but part tsunami also destroyed many lives of Haitian. As in the articles‚ not only the earthquake but things like landslide‚ tsunami are non stoppable. Past decades many countries like Haiti‚ Nepal‚ Dominican Republic‚ India‚ Hispaniola faced so terrible incidents. the earthquake of 2010 in Haiti was the largest event
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