damage and harm or kill people. The hazard will become a disaster if it does either of these things. Volcanic hazards are the include primary and secondary hazards posed by an eruption and seismic hazards include primary and secondary hazards of earthquakes. These events can affect many of the poorest people in the world but wealthier countries can also suffer as seen several times in Japan. Any management involves planning, prediction and action, all of which may cost considerable amounts of money
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898 people to lose their lives, which affected many people in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The Indian Ocean Tsunami was created by a series of chain affects including subduction, formation of an earthquake, formation of a tsunami and wave formation. Subduction is the process that takes place at the boundaries by which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate. The tectonic plates push against each other, causing a build up of pressure
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If an earthquake of 5.0 hit some place like Haiti, where the buildings are made of wood without much support, then a medium size earth quake could cause major problems. You would have thousands of families without someplace to live. Now, if that same size earthquake hit a place like California, where the buildings are made of steel and other types of stronger materials, there might be
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Economic Research Macro Commentary THE JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE: ECONOMIC IMPACT ON VIETNAM March 2011 Vietnam Alan T. Pham, PhD Chief Economist I. II. Background On Mar 11, 2011 an earthquake measured at 9.0 on the Richter scale struck the Sendai region in north east Japan. It was followed by a tsunami wave that hit the shore, causing widespread damage and loss of life. At last report, the number of deaths was put at 6,000. Total damages were estimated by insurance
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1st Assignment GEOL1002 Earthquake Portfolio This project will get to you examine the nature and effects of a significant earthquake. You will examine various aspects of the earthquake with your group over the course of the next six weeks. The exercise will get you to examine various sources of data, then you will learn how analyses the different data sets, and present the data in several different ways. The aim is to have you develop your geologic, spatial and temporal and presentation (transferable)
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from agriculture that are present in Haiti’s economy. On the other hand, corruption, poverty, and poor access to education are three of Haiti’s paramount weaknesses. A devastating earthquake in January 2010 destroyed much of the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince and neighboring areas. This earthquake, measuring 7.0 in magnitude, inflicted roughly $7.8 billion in damage and contracted the country’s GDP around five percent for the year 2010. Poverty and Inequality Half of
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agricultural communities. *Rebuttal with Quote: However that point is not important rumpler states how the water being consumed by fracking is gone forever while it could be used in other circumstances such as agriculture. IV Claim – Fracking causes earthquakes. *Reason (evidence) –pumping water in a fault can cause a slip and cause a
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Nepal Earthquake April 2015 Table Of Contents Intro How Did the way that P.M Sushil Koirala Handle The Crisis, and what was the impact on the people in kathmandu? What impact has the Earthquake had on Tourism in Kathmandu, and as a result how has society been impacted? Intro The April 2015 Earthquake in Nepal, also known as the Gorkha earthquake killed at least 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000. It effected four different countries.It took place on 25 April,
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evening. Eighteen kilometers beneath the ground another contest was also beginning in an arena known as the San Andreas Fault. Here two enormous plates of the earth’s crust had been locked in a planetary pushing match since the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. These players were tiring, reaching the breaking point. Their game was in its last inning. As the fans finally found there seats at Candlestick Park. Expectantly they watched the teams warm up. The clocks had reached 5:04. And deep beneath
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Fracking: Economic Savior or Environmental Disaster? Imagine having your home, your sanctuary, a place of memories, and dreams destroyed by a river of toxic soup. It almost seems incomprehensible that something like this could happen in this day and age. But that is exactly what happened when one hundred thousand gallons of chemically treated water rushed off of a natural gas fracking pad onto Truman and Bonnie Burnett’s land, killing a twenty foot swath of trees and filling their pond. The Burnett’s
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