The Causes And Impacts Of A Natural Disaster

While I have listed many natural disasters that one would need to prepare for, what about the government failing. Many citizens feel that the government is encroaching on our fundamental rights as Americans. Take for example Jade Helm 15, a military training exercise. While the government is telling us it’s just an exercise so that the everyday citizen can get used to the presence of military in their neighborhoods and in their towns, is that really what’s going on? Or is this just another ploy to have the government take over the American citizens and it turn into another Hitler debacle? Some groups suggest that this is a ruse to implement Martial Law on the citizens. On the other hand though there has been a lot of small terrorist attacks on military bases lately so having the presence of military in the communities might just be a preemptive measure of what’s to come. “The cause of the underlying concerns is that we see instances, like a shooting in Fort Hood by a terrorist, that the President labels workplace violence. We see the President come to the border in Texas and say it’s safer than it’s ever been,” Abbott told Austin-based NBC affiliate KXAN-TV. “And so I think it was a misplaced perception by people in Texas who have problems with the Obama administration and connected that trust with the Obama administration to the military” (Viser). This should be a concern of American. We should be preparing for government fall out, or even something that is happening

Natural disasters occurring from the climate change could be on the rise. Global warming has been rumored to be causing more hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, heavier monsoonal rains that cause major flooding, mud slides, and other disasters worldwide. A tropical cyclone, also referred to as hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones, depending on where in the world the cyclone is occurring, are one of the world’s grandest shows of energy provided by nature. Hurricanes are large, swirling, low pressure storms that have sustained winds of over 74 miles an hour and are formed over warm ocean waters (NASA, n.d.). The purpose of this paper is to discuss hurricanes

Frumhoff, Peter. “Are Severe Rain Storms, Snow Storms, Drought, and Tornadoes Linked to Global Warming?” Union of Concerned Scientists. N.p., 17 June 2011. Web. 01 Dec. 2016.

Due to Global warming, warmer water near the ocean’s surface fuels more frequent. Hurricanes have been an effect of the oceans warm water. (A hurricane is an ocean-Based storm with winds of at least 74 miles per hour.) Frequent hurricanes are now occurring in most part of the world. Scientist have determined that in some parts hurricanes were impossible to ocurre in some parts but since now till this day climate change has made it

Debates over the impact of global warming on weather patterns around the globe have been the source of intense scrutiny in recent years. One such debate that has seen increased attention in the scientific community is: What impact does global warming have on hurricane frequency and intensity? Since the especially intense hurricane season in 2005 that spawned the devastating storms of “Katrina” and “Rita” this question has spawned a lot of media attention as well. However before we can even begin to answer the question posed by the title of the paper we must first explore; What is a hurricane? How it is formed? And we must also examine what is meant by the term global warming?

Natural disasters are a phenomenon that cannot be prevented and when it comes to natural disasters is something that is hard to prepare for. These two things have nothing but negative affects towards people and especially the economy, it affects the economy tremendously. The three disasters that are going to be looked at is Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku earthquake. These three disasters all had negative affects towards the economy. Three major things that happened when these disasters hit was money loss, especially the business that were uninsured, jobs being lost, and companies that had to close down production

Natural Hazards and the Interaction of Physical and Human Processes The earth has been producing hazards for millennia these include earthquakes and volcanoes caused by the movement of tectonic plates, and also wind and water elated disasters such as tornadoes and tsunamis, these can be varied by a countries location such as suffering drought due to be land locked or an island, also the relief on the land can contribute greatly to the hazards it faces.. All of these cause great destruction and can involves lots of energy, these events do not become disasters unless there are human factors involved, when people live on a fault line they are risking suffering from an earthquake, this combination of

The Earth can be characterized by its unknown natural phenomenon There are different types of natural hazards that can happen, from Tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides ect. For instance, earthquakes are natural disasters that are characterized by vibrations and shaking within the ground, some earthquakes have the potential to become deadly. These quakes are among a number of natural disasters that can happen without warning. Earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides are some of these dangers that can vary in magnitude and size, from small, barely noticeable waves, shake, or slides to violent waves, shaking, or slides that carry the potential to destroy buildings and threaten life. Due to the uncertainty of when these disasters might happen, these

Global climate change has and will continue to have a dramatic impact on the frequency of when tornadoes will form. Climate change has and will make the earth’s conditions more favorable for these formations. As the climate warms up and moisture on the ground rises, it will become a main factor in the establishment of tornados. The probability of more moisture formation in the increasingly warmer atmosphere can lead to more frequent formations of life-threatening precipitation incidents. Global warming will also allow weather patterns and climate changes to occur in other places, which could lead to tornado formation in areas where they have never occurred. The conditions that favor tornado outbreaks could shift and expand elsewhere. The impacts

Before I looked into this topic of these crazy natural disasters I did not know that much about Hurricanes and all that imply. When Br. Little gave me the option to choose whatever natural disaster case I want this was easily my first choice. I have used information from cites but will probably will most likely be quotes because I cannot summarize science all that much so if it looks like plagiarism it was not intended to be. As we were talking about it in class it really interested me and how much it can impact a city or a country. Hurricanes are so fascinating to me. As we were talking about it in class it really interested me and how much it can impact a city or a country. We get the term Hurricane from the word ‘Taino’ a Native American word meaning “evil spirit of the wind” (40 Facts About Hurricanes - Conserve Energy Future).

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.

Disagreeing with this statement is the argument of scale and how this could be used to justify why a natural disaster could exist. A devastating natural event could provide worldwide disruption and no-one could do anything to mitigate against it. This is what could be used to describe a natural disaster. Nothing human increases the impact in such a way that could without human interference it would be just another natural event. An example of this is the Yellowstone volcano. With predictions of the eruption being VEI 8, this event would cause a worldwide destruction, covering the USA in thick ash which by itself would cause devastating consequences to the entire country. This is noted in Keller and DeVecchio’s “Natural Hazards” book when they state that a quantity of 100km3 of pyroclastic debris including ash would cover the size of Manhattan to a height of 1.6km which is 1000 times the amount emitted by Mt St. Helens in 1980. This size of eruption would have a thickness of 100m near the crater of Yellowstone and 1m thick up to 60mi away from the crater. (Keller and DeVecchio, 2012). This size of eruption would cause health problems and fatalities all across the North of America and could seriously affect global weather patterns. The 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption was a VEI 6, and caused a global cooling of temperature down by -0.4°C (Self, Zhao, Holasek, Torres, King, 1999). This had extremely catastrophic consequences in terms of agriculture which caused a large amount of

The first natural disaster recorded in China was in 1556. It was an earthquake that killed 830,000 people (“Deadliest Earthquake in History Rocks China.”). The most recent natural disaster in China was an earthquake on September 30th, 2017(earthquake.usgs.gov). 451 years later, and China is still getting natural disasters that are killing thousands of people. The buildings are being rebuilt, people are picking up and moving on, but the disasters keep coming back, sometimes causing more damage than before. The government just rebuilds the same way, no changes in the structures, just as weak as they were before. When disaster strikes again, the same buildings fall over and over. According to Corey Flintoff, in an article in which he makes a valid point, China can’t control the disasters that come their way, but they can try to adapt and prepare for the next one.

Among many natural disasters in this world, there are three natural things that are responsible for natural disasters. These three are earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanos. We humans call them Natural “Disasters” because they could destroy all of us or all our homes and important things we need to survive. Without humans, they would only be called natural events because they would not have anything to destroy. Starting with the earthquakes, they have the potential to cause harm and injury, cost loved ones and other people their lives. Earthquakes also have the potential to weaken the foundation of buildings, roads, and bridges and cause them to collapse. During an earthquake, some buildings even collapse imminently, after that the

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,