Earthquakes have affected many different countries, such as, Haiti, Mexico, and Japan; all of which were affected differently. The many differences in plate tectonic activity are what cause earthquakes to be very different from each other. Every earthquake is different from the next because an earthquake is caused by many different factors, such as, plate tectonic movement. The Mexico earthquake, Haiti earthquake, and Japan earthquake had many differences in plate activity. Firstly, the Mexico earthquake
In 2004 a devastating Tsunami transpired in the Indian Ocean, known as the Sumatra that killed over 270,000 people in a matter of hours, ranking itself the sixth-deadliest natural disaster in history by an estimated death toll. No tsunami sensors existed in the ocean to alert the people living in these coastal areas of the catastrophic Seismic Sea Wave that would arrive, consequently changing the outcome of their lives forever. Earthquakes trigger tsunamis and can wipe out entire ecosystems depending
their business continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after the disaster occurred due to nature or human induced disaster. The Toyota Group is best known today is for cars. Toyota is world’s largest automaker by sales. Toyota primarily conducts business in the automotive industry but in the finance and other industries as well. The company’s primary markets for its automobiles are Japan, North America, Europe and Asia. So, it is very much important that the Toyota Company
Devastation struck Japan on March 11, 2011 when the main island, Honshu, was rocked by the worst earthquake in the country’s history. According the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake, named the Great East Japan Earthquake, was so severe it shifted the earth’s axis by 10 cm and the jolt of the earth’s crust triggered a tsunami of epic proportion. Carrying a wall of water over 10 meters high and massive enough to been seen by the International Space Station, the tsunami claimed more lives than
event started when a powerful earthquake hit the northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, and resulted in a widespread damage on land. A series of massive tsunamis later devastated many parts of the coastal regions of the country with the worst affected being the Tohoku region. The tsunami further resulted in a major nuclear accident that damaged distant regions on a power station located along the coast. The economic effects of the tsunami qualify it as one of the major natural disasters because it affected
Tsunamis become disasters because of the human context in which they occur. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Use examples of known tsunami events recently and in the past to illustrate your arguments. According to Wisner et al 2004, "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability,” implying that in unpopulated areas hazards can not become disasters as there is no vulnerability (Quarantelli E.L. 1998). Without humans being involved, tsunamis are nothing but giant waves; they may modify
Purpose Level 4. And, I would also like to thank all member of this course for valuable discussion and encouragement. Abstract Nowadays, people argues the danger of nuclear power, because the remarkable disaster occurred in Japan, 2011. The earthquake and Tsunami killed many people, and caused the accident of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants. In this article, the research about the danger of nuclear power plants is conducted by based on previous researches and literatures . The first
hazardous area. There has not been a megathrust earthquake in the last 300 years or so in the northwest. The last megathrust earthquake occurred on January 26, 1700. While there are no written records of the earthquake, the tsunami it caused was recorded by villages in Japan. The rings of surviving spruce trees from this earthquake provide evidence of a large natural disaster in 1700. A megathrust is the world’s largest type of earthquake, often nine in magnitude or higher. These earthquakes only
Lanka were destroyed by a horrible tsunami on 26 December 2004. Most people of Sri Lanka did not experience this natural disaster, except flooding, landslides and cyclones. The effect of tsunami had a large scale on Sri Lanka’s coastal areas, around 70 per cent of total 1400 km long of coastal zones was affected (Ratnasooriya et al., 2007). The effect of tsunami has enormous impacts on human, economy, and environmental of Sri Lanka. Impact on human is one of the tsunami’ s effects. According to MoFP
causes great damage or loss of life. A disaster is often considered a human disaster if it has been caused by human interference or activity that has made the threat of seismic events worse, by measurements such as amount of deaths or cost to an economy. In every day society humans take shortcuts in the process of construction or urban planning with the short term benefits of saving time and money. However sadly this means the standard of resistance buildings have against seismic events is not enough