Sumatra

For the Humanitarian Project I projected my views of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and Earthquake onto a newsletter. There were multiple sections included on the newsletter, like interviews of the survivors themselves and the effects that the crisis had on the surrounding countries. In my eyes, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and Earthquake compares to Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 hurricane that hit the United States, in many ways. It’s kind of like us United States citizens can sympathize for the

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

This generated one of the deadliest tsunamis known to mankind, killing over 230,000 people and leaving over two million people displaced. The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the Indian Ocean, right off the west coast of Sumatra. The tectonic plates beneath the ocean floor had been colliding and building up pressure for hundreds of years, until this day when subduction occurred between the Indian and the Burma plates. The process of subduction displaced billions of tons of

Graphical understanding of price ceiling: This graph shows a price ceiling. P^e shows the legal price the government has set, but P^f shows the price the marginal consumer is willing to pay at Q^s, which is the quantity that the industry is willing to supply. Since P^f > P^e (MC), a deadweight welfare loss results. P^e and Q^e show the equilibrium price. At P^c the quantity demanded is greater than the quantity supplied. This is what causes the shortage. price ceiling creates a shortage when

Palm Oil – How It Is Impacting Our Planet Palm oil has many popular uses in the world today. Its production has also caused great concern for the impact it has on the planet, especially due to deforestation. Palm oil is a vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of the African oil palm tree and can be found in roughly 50% of packaged goods found in your local grocery store. It is the most widely produced edible oil. Oil palms were brought to South-East Asia in the early 20th century. The main demand

The Indian Ocean Tsunami, also known as the Sumatran-Andaman Earthquake, occurred on December 26, 2004 at 7:51 AM. The epicenter of this earthquake was located off of the West Coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake caused immense destruction and loss of life throughout the Indian Ocean basin within several hours of its occurrence. The Indian Ocean Tsunami was the highest magnitude event in the region in over forty years. About 230,000 people were reported dead with many more

Unlike other volcanoes, the eruption of composite volcanoes is unique. The eruption of the composite volcano is known to be very explosive because the amount of pressure tends to build up. That is why the composite volcano is known as the deadliest volcano. Therefore, when the volcano explodes all of the pressure is released causing the results to be destructive. After there is no more volcanic activity, or when the volcano is dormant, erosion will start wearing the cone down. The main cone is worn

My choice was orangutans, the "man of the forest" which reside on two islands in Indonesia called Sumatra and Borneo. I wish to learn more about their behavior, their ability to live in solitary but also be social at the same time. I think it is fascinating that they are orange and live high up in trees mostly. They are gentle and seem like little old people to me, yet they are so different and clearly wild animals. I've always been so curious why orangutans are so similar to us but are so far down

mid-1700s. Starting out in 1734, trade appeared to be slow in the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. The letter to the Sultan Gondam Shan was more laid back and less aggressive than latter letters to that region. Another letter sent that year went into detail about how the English did not want to pay a higher price for the pepper since it would not be worth it. Additionally, this letter questions why Sumatras would want to visit England, putting it off as an unpleasant place. These two early

Indian Ocean not getting large earthquakes and tsunamis very often, the islands are not as prepared for these destructive events like Japan, for example, is for these natural disasters. The earthquake happened 160 km west of the northern part of Sumatra and at a depth of about 30 km, which is fairly shallow waters. This earthquake caused a displacement of the seabed that resulted in a cliff line which released an amount of energy that is equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima-type of atomic bombs (Osbourne)