Causes Of Natural Disasters

Distressing natural disasters, such as hurricane Irma have devastated the world and caused loss of homes, as well as greatly affecting humanity. According to French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe of St. Martin, “95 percent of the island’s houses had been damaged and 60 percent were uninhabitable. Earlier, France's interior minister said at least eight people had died.” This devastating hurricane is one of the many examples of how extreme natural disasters negatively impact the world and how dominant Mother Nature is over humanity.

Japan has been having a series of natural disasters of great magnitude from as early as 1920s with the most common disasters being the earthquakes resulting from seismic actions and storms. The worst of the quakes took place in 1923 with a casualty of 143,000 deaths. This has been ranked as the worst disaster that has ever befallen Japan followed by the March 2011 quake that occasioned a tsunami.

The role of a civil engineer in the aftermath of a natural disaster has mitigated to suffering of the victims. By dispensing the basic necessities as fast as possible to those in need. After natural disasters, food, water, shelter become the primary concerns to engineers and first responders. The scenario of destroyed infrastructure whether from flooded roads in New Orleans or destroyed bridges in Japan can greatly hinder the relief effort. To account for this, relief supplies had to be air dropped into some heavily affected areas. As a result, a civil engineer in this disaster was given the responsibility for repairing damaged infrastructure and designing temporary structures to aid relief efforts. Providing the basic necessities isn't the only thing that needs to be the plan for. Another aspect, as in Engineer responsibility in a disaster is to account for the psychological aspect too. A case example of this happened in New Orleans in with the hysteria of looting an assault. This Disaster sociology puts a strain on relief efforts because it creates discord amongst survivors. Disaster sociology is described as vulnerability a society to withstand adverse impacts from multiple stressors to which they are exposed to (FEMA 2017). Disaster sociological events occur when basic needs of victims are not met, this can lead to civil unrest. To compensate people take survival into they own hands and looting occurs. In the case of Katrina however, these stories were greatly

Throughout history natural disasters have terrorised mankind. The problem with natural disasters is humans cannot control them, they can create preventative measures and usually can find where the disaster is going to happen but that is the extent of human's ability to control them. When creating preventative measures there is always a budget in mind that keeps everything from being foolproof, which makes large scale disasters sometimes make those preventive measures not enough to completely stop them but only helps reduce cleanup time. In certain cases like large quantities of rain that cause flooding the flood waters are directed towards dams that can hold a certain amount of water before the dam breaks, at max capacity the dam must be opened in some cases causing more flooding downstream causing for a longer cleanup time. In Nick Stockton's article “How Will Huston Handle the Deluge Hurricane Harvey” from August 28, of 2017 in the online version of Wired, he effectively uses logos to show how the project manager is handling rain control during this natural disaster while also showing how casualties and property damage were minimized.

warning and the arrival of a storm is about 13 minutes.” (National Geographic) That’s much

The vulnerabilities when it comes to natural disasters, can be caused from severe weather like storms, droughts, and extreme hot weather. Can also be caused by severe fires. There are areas that have tree limbs overhanging power lines which can cause the powerlines to come down if there is a severe storm that would end up causing these trees to fall on the lines. With inadequate tree trimming this could cause a problem with any kind of weather, with not cutting back tress it makes powerlines more vulnerable with high winds and snow fall from these storms. With these power outages, due to a storm because the trees have not been cut back can cause a blackout and make it vulnerable for a terrorist attack. There is a debate over how serious it can be for terrorists to pose a threat on the U.S. when there is a power outage. Some of the technical failures can come from large accidental outages caused by cascading failures in one of the high voltage transmission systems. The main thing that is focused on with power problems is the transmission and distribution system, substations, and the other associated parts. Human error can also be a problem when it comes to power outages, not doing security checks or system analysis check and finding problems with these systems can also cause power outages. We need electricity so our power system is a potential target for terrorist, even though our electric systems are only one of the targets that terrorist may think of striking but is not

For thousands of years, people have always thought that floods and disease were the doings of the gods. The ancients believed that natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, and storms were because the gods were angry and they were punishing their people. Over the past few hundred years, scientists have been able to connect certain diseases that are caused by natural disasters such as floods, cyclones, and hurricanes. Water and vector-borne diseases accompany these disasters and negatively impact the population, and while there are ways to decrease the negative impact of infectious diseases caused by flood water, there are not enough financial resources available to implement these solutions.

Natural disasters throughout the world are very frightening although there might be reasons to look at them in a different perspective? How you may ask, seeing homes and hundreds of people panic for their lives is all a natural reaction because we don’t know what to do for the most part. However there are other ways into viewing these disasters not only as that nature stops by a decides to struck a certain place on earth but, that we have a partial responsibility in these disasters. We all influence how earth's environments work and how we treat it eventually builds up and causes natural disasters. For the most part literature can give you a whole different perspective on natural disasters.

Earthquakes and Hurricanes are two of the costliest natural disasters that have occurred around the world. Both Japan and the United States have been unfortunate to experience many of both, with the largest and costliest of each hitting both countries. While building codes continue to help with loss of life and destruction of structures, there are still forces of nature that will destroy and damage buildings regardless of the efforts that are made. With the cost of repairs increasing the destruction that can happen with any major natural disaster will continue to increase repair costs. Both of these forms of natural disasters will continue to impact both counties in the future with lessons learned with each occurring natural disaster.

Today, many people believe that the end of the world is here. There are many natural disasters occurring this year. way more than usual. People are now superstitious, thinking these natural disasters are a warning sign that the ending of the world is upon everyone. There has been reporting’s on crazy hurricanes this year, especially two big ones that people may never forget. There’s been many hurricanes this year, the worst ones everyone's talking about is hurricane Harvey and hurricane Irma. There have also been big earthquakes and wildfires. Now, some may say the world is only ending in America. But this has proven not be the case. America is not the only country that has been experiencing natural disasters. Mexico has just recently had an earthquake that killed over 200 people! North Korea had a 6.1 magnitude earthquake. Hurricane Maria- a new hurricane- hit Puerto Rico and many small Caribbean Islands. There’s bad flooding in South Asia. A horrible drought in Africa. A tsunami threat out in Central America.

A disaster is something that happens suddenly and causes much suffering or loss to many people. The ability of a disaster victim to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disaster depends on a variety of factors that often are beyond the person’s immediate control. The severity and longevity of the event, the efficiency of the warning systems, the victim’s health status, and the individual’s access to resources are a few of the factors influencing an individual’s response and recovery ability. Also, victims who are house bound, socially isolated, or who have impaired mobility may be compromised in their ability to respond to and recover from disaster.

According to the analysis, annual and seasonal LAI from 1990 to 2005 were highly variable with sharp reductions in 1994 and 2000 in the No.1 experimental watershed. These variations are associated with forest disturbances such as typhoon and extreme weather. In July 1993, typhoon Lewis struck the South Hainan Island Coast with wind speeds of 41 m s-1, its eye passing through Jiangfengling National Forest Park. The No.1 experimental watershed, located 20 km from the coast, was in close proximity to the path taken by the storm’s eye and received severe damage. After the pass of the storm, mean LAI during the dry season of 1994 (November 1993 to April 1994) was greatly decreased by 12.4% as compared to the mean for dry season of 1993. Storm,

The unexpected is something that can not be prevented. Natural disasters destroy everything in their way. With the help of technology and how fast it is growing, communities know a natural disaster is happening within hours or days of its starting. The people that live in that area often know what there is to come before it actually arrives. They often are encouraged to evacuate as soon as possible. But how could someone leave behind all their belongings, memories and cherishable items to be swept away in a storm just like trash? People are too stubborn to listen to the news or weather reports because they are skeptical. They sometimes may be right however, most of the time they are in the wrong. These are the types of people who normally

Natural disasters cause damage to societies and libraries. Earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and tornadoes can cause irreversible damage to library infrastructure and most importantly the collection. Since natural disasters cannot be fully controlled or stop, they can destroy or caused serious damage to any nation’s intellectual heritage. Hence, library managers must put in place measures to mitigate the impact of natural disasters. Besides loss of life, infrastructure destruction is by far the most obvious type of damage that comes to mind when we think about natural disasters. But there are other implications for a country’s cultural heritage, economy, as well

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