outward‚ making landfall at speeds topping 500 mph (www.cbsnews.com). The phenomenon we call tsunami is a series of large waves of extremely long wavelength and period usually generated by a violent‚ impulsive undersea disturbance or activity near the coast or in the ocean. When a sudden displacement of a large volume of water occurs‚ or if the sea floor is suddenly raised or dropped by an earthquake‚ big tsunami waves can be formed by forces of gravity. The waves travel out of the area of origin and
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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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and a natural disaster is that in 1906 when there was a strong wave range earthquake in San Francisco. Natural calamities would be the phenomenon which can’t always be prevented‚ but we can get precautions. Natural Calamities such as: earthquakes‚ Tsunamis‚ floods‚ tornados‚ and volcanic erosions‚ which cause disorder within our everyday lives. At the moment‚ with the support in Science and expertise‚ we will be capable to offset these natural calamities
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devastating‚ but the quake was also the cause of a correlated tsunami that caused even more damage and destruction to the area. “This earthquake is the largest event in the world in 40 years‚ and produced the most devastating tsunami recorded in history” (Lay). “Coastal communities across South Asia – and more than 4‚000 km away in Africa – were swept away and homes engulfed by waves up to 10 m high after the quake created a tsunami that sped across the ocean” (BBC News). The geographic location
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world. Remember the tsunami accident a couple of years ago in wich thousands of people were killed. After the earthquake the tsunami came minutes later and nobody knew that there was a tsunami coming. After the tsunami passed trough a complete city the countries around also did not know that a tsunami was coming and that was thae reason for thousand people to die. The quiestion is that with all the tecnology that we have today how is possible that countries did not get the tsunami alert notification
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Mount Unzen is a group of active overlapping stratovolcanoes. They are located on the island of Kyushu which is Japan’s most southern main island. Not only was the Eruption deadly but the Mayu-Yama Lava domes collapsed which triggered a Mega-Tsunami that killed nearly 15‚000 people. This was one of Japans worst volcanic disasters. The Volcano has been dormant for 198 years until the early 1990’s when the volcano became active and erupted again in November 1991 creating a pyroclastic flow which
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common calamities that our country faces are storms and floods. According to PAGASA‚ flood is a natural hydrological phenomenon. The purpose of this essay is to enumerate and explain the causes of flood‚ which are tropical storms‚ global warming and tsunamis. One of the causes of flood are tropical storms. According to the Forces of Nature website‚ storms get water from oceans and bring it towards land. Streams and rivers sometimes cannot handle the heavy rain so water overflows and produces flood
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2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami Name of Student Name of Instructor Date Contents Introduction 3 Impacts of the Disaster 4 Ethical and Social Issues 6 References 13 Introduction The 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan were considered as one of the worst disasters that hit any country in the world. This disaster also affected various parts in Japan particularly the northern areas like the Ibaragi‚ Fukushima‚ Miyagi‚ and Sanriku. Disaster agencies have measured the 2011
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three-pronged trident. He is associated with horses‚ seen in the crashing of waves on the shore. He is also believed to be the force behind earthquakes‚ an odd expansion of the power of a sea god‚ but possibly due to the association between earthquakes and tsunamis in Greece. Some scholars believe he was first a god of the earth and earthquakes‚ and only later took on the role of sea god. Poseidon’s Appearance: Poseidon is a bearded‚ older man usually pictured with seashells and other sealife. Poseidon
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Indian Ocean tsunami has killed over 32‚000 people; it was big‚ and for the Minoans to have a population of only 5‚000 people‚ it vanished the whole Minoan population. Like Sandy‚ I respect and admire the Minoans. Though I have never experienced a tsunami‚ I personal have fears of them. To hear how the Minoans died or to even think about the tsunami‚ plus dark clouds of ashes which you cannot see‚ is devastating. Minoan civilization was swallowed by the sea. 100 years later after the tsunami disaster
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