when plates collide or move away from one another thus they are usually found at the edge of tectonic plates .Volcanoes can also occur in the interior of plates‚ these volcanoes are commonly known hotspots. MOVEMENT OF TECTONIC PLATES 2. Tsunamis can be formed by : Underwater earthquakes Underwater earthquakes are the most common cause of tsunami’s .If an underwater earthquake is large enough‚ significant movements will be made by the ocean floor‚ pushing up the ocean water upward causing
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TSUNAMI Tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water‚ typically an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices)‚ landslides‚ glacier calving’s meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami are devastating. They are one of the world’s worst natural disasters that
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THE AFTERMATH OF THE TSUNAMI AND CONSEQUENTIAL POVERTY SUBJECT: LAW AND POVERTY SUBMITTED BY: NISHANT K PRASAD 2010-50 SUBMITTED TO: PROFESSOR AMITADHANDA DEAN(ACADEMICS) NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW‚ HYDERABAD A large number of people to the extent of 220‚000 people were killed in the tsunami which hit South Asia in 2004. There were disastrous consequences of this natural calamity. Loss of millions
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Creative Destruction and the Aftermath of the Tsunami: Recovery of Southern Sri Lankan Small Business in the Face of Inertia Dr. C. Travis A. Perera Senior Consultant‚ Entrepreneurship‚ Business Development & Operations Management Postgraduate Institute of Management‚ Sri Lanka Telephone number: 94-777 756 109 Fax number: 94-11-2689643 Email: drtravisperera@gmail.com Paper Presented At the 5th International Entrepreneurship Forum held in Cape Town‚ South Africa from September 07-09-2005
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How tsunamis occur. As one plate subducts below another (moves underneath)‚ pressure builds for many years resulting in a section of the mega-thrust giving away. As this section gives away‚ it ruptures the ocean floor‚ resulting in a massive displacement of water‚ causing a tsunami. Tsunamis are barely felt as a ripple on the ocean’s surface‚ but as the waves reach land‚ they increase in size as the water becomes shallower. Japan earthquake and tsunami At 2:46pm Japanese time‚ on March 11th
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I analyzed “A Destructive Tsunami Builds a Relationship” Kaplan lesson plan for 4th grade AIG pull out students. In the lesson‚ students had to recognize how relationships have a purpose. Students had to evaluate and analysis similarities/differences between tortoises and hippos and the relationship in the Owen and Mzee book. The students had to correlate the relationship between the characters in the story with a purposeful relationship of children in Kenya with the Boxes of Hope project. Differentiated
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Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 After doing research on significant events that occurred in the past 12 months within the Pacific Rim‚ the topic I finally decided to do my research report on was the recent earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s many cities. I chose this topic because I was really interested about learning more about the issue and how significant
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2004 Boxing Day Tsunami | Source 1 | Source 2 | Source 3 | Source 4 | Name of Topic | Tsunami Flash | The Tsunami Page | The Boxing Day 2006 Tsunami | 2004 Tsunami Disaster | Name of Author | The Age | Dr George P.C | Phil Cummins | Matthew Clieok | Address | http://www.theage.com.au/tsunamiflash/ | http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami2004Indonesia.html | http://www.ga.gov.au/ausgeonews/ausgeonews200503/tsunami.jsp | http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/Tsunami-Analyses.html | Notes
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There have been many disasters movies from Hollywood‚ and San Andreas is another disaster film. This movie is about how an earthquake started in the Hoover Dam (Clark County‚ Nevada)‚ but then it spread out to San Francisco and a Tsunami came. I know some movies are depressing‚boring‚awful but San Andreas is not one of those kind of movies. This movie is an entertaining movie that you could watch every single day. People think that this movie is a bad one. But this is a wonderful movie. The first
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country or region you have studied’ For my 1st assessment I am going to be looking how the Tsunami on December 26th 2004 affected tourism in Thailand. I will recount the details of the tsunami‚ followed by personal opinion on how the scale of the disaster could have been avoided. I will then quote facts and evidence using newspaper/ hotel reports and then summarise my findings. The Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26th 2004 was caused by an underwater earthquake and was one of the worst natural
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