referring to artwork. It is one of the most popular pieces of Japanese art and can be associated with many other widely known pieces such as Mona Lisa‚ The Starry Night‚ and The Scream. When first looking at The Big Wave‚ many assume the wave is a tsunami‚ but by unpopular belief‚ it infact is not. The wave in the print is simply a large wave and it’s size is shown when compared to Mount Fuji in the background and people in boats in the foreground; which is commonly missed when looking at this art
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4-LIMNIC ERUPTIONS: A limnic eruption occurs when a gas‚ usually CO2‚ suddenly erupts from deep lake water‚ posing the threat of suffocating wildlife‚ livestock and humans. Such an eruption may also cause tsunamis in the lake as the rising gas displaces water. 5-TSUNAMI: Tsunamis can be caused by undersea earthquake. 6-BLIZZARD: Blizzards are severe winter storms characterized by heavy snow and strong winds. 7-CYCLONIC STORMS: Cyclone‚ tropical cyclone‚ hurricane‚ and typhoon are
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designed‚ constructed and run in conjunction with General Electric‚ Boise‚ and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).[3] The plant suffered major damage from the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan on March 11‚ 2011 and‚ as of December 2012‚ is not expected to reopen. The earthquake and tsunami disabled the reactor cooling systems‚ leading to releases of radioactivity and triggering a 30 km evacuation zone surrounding the plant. On April 20‚ 2011‚ the Japanese authorities declared
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major earthquake the cooling rods were disabled. The earthquake caused all of the nuclear reactors to be shut down automatically and they started to run on generators in the basement of the nuclear power plant. However these were flooded when the tsunami hit and failed to work. This meant that the cooling system stopped working and this cause the fuel rods to start to react with the steam producing hydrogen. The fuel rods melted down due to the high temperatures and this
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Natural Hazards What is a natural hazard? A natural hazard is a naturally occuring physical event which poses a threat and negatively impacts people and the environment. Examples of natural hazards are: earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ wildfires‚ floods‚ volcanic eruptions etc. Earthquakes and their Occurence What is an Earthquake? An earthquake is a sudden rapid vibration along the earth’s crust due to individual tremors‚ sometimes causing great destruction to the earth’s lithosphere and its inhabitants
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of the accusations of illegal logging‚ and cultural pressures from Muslim Indonesian police and Christian missionaries. How can you link the fact that they survived the tsunami to their ancient beliefs‚ myths‚ and or legends? What were they specifically? Their belief system is based on living in total harmony with nature. Tsunamis are a part of nature and they make do to be in synchronization with it. They do whatever is needed to survive it‚ they do not panic or make a huge deal about it as others
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earth’s tectonic plates‚ which then triggered a 15 meter high tsunami‚ less than an hour later. There was a 5.6 meter high defence wall‚ bordering the power plant‚ which sank about a meter during the earthquake. The defence wall was destroyed from the raging tsunami‚ which flooded the generators that were cooling the reactor cord; this immediately sent the plant in to meltdown mode. (Fast Facts about the Japan earthquake and tsunami‚ 2011. World Nuclear Association‚ 2012) After the nuclear fallout
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A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary
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On March 11‚ a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan and caused tremendous damage to Japan. The earthquake sparked off a 30-foot tsunami within an hour‚ which only compounded the‚ already extensive‚ damage to the country. One of the greatest fears was the potential of a nuclear fall out. Specifically‚ the Fukushima Daiichi power plant was in question. The nuclear plant in Fukushima had six nuclear reactors‚ and three out of six of them were in critical state – possibly melting down. The potential of
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epicentre was 20km under the sea‚ and 250km off the the coast if Indonesia‚ near the city of Banda Ache. Primary Effects: The tsunami came at high speed across the Indian Ocean affecting at least 12 nations‚ Indonesia suffering the greatest. Around 250‚000 people died with millions homeless. Aceh‚ which was close to the epicentre‚ was particularly affected by the tsunami because it lies low so the waves came up to a mile inland. 131‚000 people were confirmed dead and 37‚000 people missing. More than
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