Hurricanes and earthquakes are two of the most dangerous natural disasters in the United States. They can be very disastrous and deadly. In the United States‚ there have been 73 hurricanes since 1954. Earthquakes are harder to detect because they have to have at least a magnitude of 5 ("Earthquakes per year‚" 2009). The amount of earthquakes detected in the United States was 1656 in the past 10 years ("Earthquakes per year‚" 2009). The World Meteorological Organization is the organization that can
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England vs. United States Heather Marie Etheredge Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on May 29‚ 2013 for Heather Zink’s H200/HSA2117 Section 02 U.S. Healthcare Systems course. Healthcare is one of the most debated issues in the United States but our government can’t put its differences aside and think about the needs of its citizens first. Universal healthcare will always have its pros and cons as with any new system there will be hindrance. The healthcare system
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Hurricane Sandy Case study 1‚ Background * The outline of hurricane Sandy Hurricane Sandy was formed on October 22 and dissipated on October 31. Its highest winds throughout all the date was 110mph (175km/h) and the lowest pressure was 940hPa. The number of fatalities was 253 in all‚ and all costs of damage‚ at least‚ have risen to $65.6 billion. Affected areas by this hurricane expanded to wide range. This is Hurricane Sandy when it was near peak intensity on October 25. Firstly
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In the days and weeks following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005‚ a person could not turn on a television set‚ tune in a radio station or read a newspaper or magazine without hearing about and seeing the images of displaced adults and children searching for the basic necessities of life. From thousands of people huddled in the flooded and hot Louisiana Superdome to families and groups of people sleeping on bridges and the sides of roads holding signs begging for food or water‚ our nation and the
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Essay Assignment GE-253 Hurricanes Have you ever heard tropical storms pushing winds up to 200 mph and causing destruction everywhere? A true beast of nature we call a hurricane. These hurricanes can show up at any time to make a mess of things. To fully understand hurricanes we have to peer into the history‚ calculate the physics‚ plot the storm’s movements and actions‚ respect the power of such storms‚ and prepare ourselves if a storm is headed our way. A lot of hurricanes have happened up until
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Housing market in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina Table of contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………3 2. Pre-Katrina situation ………………………..…………………………………..4 3. After-Katrina situation…………………………………………………………..6 4. Current situation New Orleans….………………………………………………8 5. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………...…9 6. References…………………………………………………………………….….10 Introduction It is August 29th of 2005 when the United States of America is badly affected
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HURRICANE SANDY Hurricane Sandy was a tropical cyclone that devastated portions of the Caribbean‚ Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October 2012. The eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season‚ Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record‚ as measured by diameter‚ with winds spanning 1‚100 miles. Sandy is estimated in early calculations to have caused damage of at least $20 billion. Preliminary estimates of losses that include business
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Weather in the eye of the hurricane is usually very calm. Hurricanes form when winds hit very warm waters that reach at least 79 degrees Fahrenheit. Air starts to circulate which helps add more air and force‚ Another thing that helps the hurricane build up is condensation. Hurricanes are a large spinning mass of rotating winds‚ the winds reach more than 75 miles per hour. The tropical storms are usually in ocean areas called basins. These basins include the Atlantic Ocean‚ Gulf of Mexico‚ and the
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of the United States during the last 100 years. Hurricanes all start in tropical waters because they can only start in warm waters. The wind and air conditions must be just right‚ and once a hurricane is started it can be moved around by powerful winds. They are basically a very deadly cyclone of wind and water. They range from category 1 to category 5‚ with 5 being the worst. The most deadly hurricane was on September 8th‚ 1900
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A natural disaster such as a hurricane can be one of the most devastating events in someone’s life. I have watched many hurricanes on television such as Katerina and it never crossed my mind that I would ever experience one until it happened on a cold‚ fall day in October. Now you can’t compare hurricane Katerina to Sandy‚ however it still caused great damage to homes‚ businesses‚ and neighborhoods. It was a horrifying experience and drastically affected peoples lives as well as my own. Warnings
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