Earthquake Case Study – LEDC – Haiti - 12th January 2010 * Haiti is a small island located in the Caribbean, South East of the USA and East of Cuba. Its capital city is Port-au-Prince and the country had a population of 9.9million. Development Levels Development Indicator | Value | GDP Per Capita | $1200 | People in Poverty | 80% on less than $2 a day | Life Expectancy | 62 years | People per doctor | 0.25 per 1,000 people | Access to clean water | 46% have access. | The
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Nuclear Power In the scope of sustainability, the nuclear fission power has many advantages over its competitors meanly produced from natural fossil fuels and the ones in the other category, such as wind power, hydro and solar power. The degree of the sustainability of the fission power varies in different approaches and implementations of nuclear fission power. Despite its strengths to be a sustainable power source, it has created new concerns in engineering, investing, safety, environment and
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after, the California emergency response team called him, asking what he could say about the earthquake, because the seismometers had been 152 knocked out by its severity. He told them the direction from which it came, along with its approximate distance (based on the time between different waves, but not the P and S that are normally used, as described earlier). From these he guessed that the earthquake was near Santa Cruz, and he was also able to roughly guess its strength. He boasted to me
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We have all seen the devastation a country endears when it is hit by a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, forest fire or even earthquakes. And when their lives are disrupted by disasters people will look to their government for assistance. It is the country’s economic system that often determines to what degree the government can provide its citizens with the needed goods and services following a natural disaster. To wonder which economic system is best suited for handling a crisis, we need to
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topics and concepts to be discussed in the chapter. a. Legal basis of modern emergency management in the United States. b. Budget authority. c. Program eligibility. d. Roles and responsibilities. 2. Case Studies a. The National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP): Legislation to Address a Particular Hazard b. The Homeland Security Act of 2002: A New Emergency Management c. The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000: A Shift to Pre-Disaster Mitigation 3. Additional Sources
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Everyone is told not to settle. Everyone is told to go above and beyond to find something better. The process of hydraulic fracturing is one of those things that America has settled for; hydraulic fracturing can be made into something better. Hydraulic Fracturing, fracking, is a process in which more than two million gallons of high pressured water, sand, and chemicals are inserted into rock to break up the components to release shale gas. This method is one of the most commonly used to obtain shale
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logistical managers in getting aid to disaster areas Natural disasters are a fact of life for many areas around the world, for example last year alone there were earthquakes in both Nepal and Afghanistan that have broken 7 on the Richter scale, allowing them to be characterised as Major Earthquakes. Generally, features of such an earthquake are shown by by damage to most buildings, potentially, resulting in either partial of complete collapse, often with ignorance to well-designed buildings. They’re
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principally from this material. Lutgens and Tarbuck Textbook: Earthquakes and Structures (Chapter 6) * Know the definition of an earthquake (pg. 190). * Know the difference between the focus and epicenter of an earthquake. Which is located at the source of the earthquake? Which is located on the surface of the earth directly above the source? * Understand the concept of elastic rebound. What is it? How are earthquakes produced via elastic rebound? * Know the three basic types of
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English Topic: Natural disasters Chosen disaster: Haiti earthquake 2010 Task: Inform you peers how environments can influence the lives of its inhabitants and cause conflict. Outcome: Oral presentation Assessed on: * Criterion B: Organizing * Criterion C: Style and language * Criterion D: Using language Done by: Bana Taher Year: MYP Y3 “8C” Teacher: Mrs. Sara Refai Done by: Bana Taher Year: MYP Y3 “8C” Teacher: Mrs. Sara Refai Contents Content
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HW 1 Due 2/24/13 – by noon, really at noon. Turn in via SAKAI – do not email it. Turn it into a .pdf file using export or save as. Please do not turn in a .doc or a .docx file. Name your file as follows. Lastname_hw1.pdf - like roman_hw1.pdf A Note about calculations in general, please read. Before turning your work in, it is important to ask yourself whether a calculated answer is within the realm of possibilities, independent of how detailed the calculations required to determine the answer were
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