Head: IMPROVING FLOOD EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 1 Improving Flood Emergency Preparedness in League City Abstract This paper explores a vital need to the residents of League City in regards to flood emergency response. Based on online research from the City of League City Mitigation Plan‚ Galveston County Mitigation Plan‚ and The Council for Excellence in Government‚ a local flood preparedness campaign focusing on a coordinated community emergency preparedness educational
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Geography- Pakistan’s Earthquake on 2005 The most unfortunate disaster happened in Pakistan on 8th October 2005 and was thought to be the strongest ever to hit the region in a century; a magnitude of 7.6 devastating earthquake occurred in the Himalayan region of northern Pakistan and Kashmir‚ moreover there was a 24 hours of aftershock‚ resulting a huge amount of damaged area across northern of Pakistan and border areas of India; buildings are flattened; the sights of massive triggering landslides
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Compare and Contrast Haiti and Suriname in terms of their political structure‚ their demography and language The Republic of Haiti (Ayiti)‚ occupies one third of on the Western side of Hispaniola and The Dominican Republic on the Eastern two thirds. Haiti is approximately 27‚750 square kilometers and is located 80km to the east of Cuba. Haiti‚ known as the “World’s First Black Republic”² has a population of 7‚ 482‚ 000 people³. The capital of Haiti is Port-au-Prince and it became an Independent
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THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN NIGERIA AND USA O.M.A PAD 6450/01 SPRING 2014 INTRODUCTION 1Disaster refers to an emergency caused by natural hazards or human induced actions resulting in a significant change in circumstances over a relatively short time period. Typical examples are death‚ displacement‚ disease‚ loss of crops‚ damage to physical and service infrastructure‚ depletion of natural and social capitals‚ institutional
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The Rise and Decline of the Socialist Party in the United States Throughout American history‚ there have been an array of factions vying for votes in our democratic system of government. These organizations consist of leaders who believe in an idea and have developed ways to achieve that idea. Success of a political organization‚ or party‚ is based on how well leaders can convince people to follow them and join their ranks. Socialism as a political idea is based on cooperative ownership and
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Alaska earthquake http://www.iris.edu/hq/files/programs/education_and_outreach/aotm/31/Alaska1964EarthquakeCauses.mp4 A lot of excellent information is packed into this short video. 1. How many minutes did the shaking last? The shaking lasted 4.5 minutes. 2. What was the magnitude of the earthquake? The magnitude of the earthquake was 9.2. 3. This earthquake occurred just as geologists were figuring out plate tectonics. What principle of plate tectonics did the earthquake confirm
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Gujarat earthquake The 2001 Gujarat earthquake occurred on January 26‚ 2001‚ at 03:17 UTC‚ and coincided with the 51st celebration of India’s Republic Day. The location of the epicentre was Bhuj (23.6° N 69.8° E) Gujarat‚ India. With a moment magnitude (Mw) of between 7.6 and 8.1‚ the quake killed more than 20‚000 people and injured another 167‚000 and destroyed near a million homes throughout Gujarat and parts of eastern Pakistan.[3] The earthquake is considered an intraplate earthquake because
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largest earthquake ever occurred in the 20th century was the Valdivia Earthquake. As cited in the sources‚ the magnitude of this powerful earthquake was approximately 9.5 and totally destroyed communities near the epicenter. Because this great number of magnitude has a power to eradicate everything around it. Other earthquakes might be the larger but it’s the first one since accurate estimates of magnitude became possible. This was a megathrust earthquake which means that an earthquake occurred in subduction
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Bhawan A-1‚ Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi - 110 029 ISBN: 978-93-80440-10-1 No. of Copies: 3000 September (2010) When citing this report‚ the following citation should be used: National Disaster Management Guidelines: Role of NGOs in Disaster Management. A publication of the National Disaster Management Authority‚ Government of India‚ ISBN: 978-93-80440-10-1‚ September 2010‚ New Delhi. National Disaster Management Guidelines: Role of NGOs in Disaster Management has been formulated under
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country could take place. The broad aims of Lenin’s communism were to redistribute wealth among the Russian people and to support the Red Army with artillery and weapons. Lenin did not achieve his goals to establish communism in Russia. The agricultural and industrial sectors in Russian collapsed due to the unorganised nationalisation that took place. Communism also had bad social effects on the people of Russia. Although the Russian economy was going through a crisis‚ Lenin was still able to support and
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