technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary academia‚ disasters are seen as the consequence
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(n.d). Post-tsunami ‘Safe house’ initiative. Retrieved June 11‚ 2013 from http://www.dwf.org/en/content/indonesia Indian National Center For Ocean Information Services. (2007). National Early Warning System for Tsunami & Storm Surges in the Indian Ocean. Retrieved June 10‚ 2013 from http://www.incois.gov.in/Incois/tsunamicontents.jsp Indian Safety Professionals. (n.d). 10 Earthquake and Tsunami Safety Tips That You Should Know. Retrieved June 10‚ 2013 from http://www.isplonline.com/tsunamitentips
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Natural Devastation The largest earthquake in 40 years shifted huge geological plates beneath the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26‚ 2004‚ causing a immense and abrupt displacement of millions of tons of water. Indonesia villages closest to the epicenter were swamped within minutes‚ while elsewhere the waves radiated outward‚ making landfall at speeds topping 500 mph (www.cbsnews.com). The phenomenon we call tsunami is a series of large waves of extremely long wavelength and period usually generated by
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Introduction to Disaster Management Page Nos. (i) (ii) 1 Chapter 2: Natural Hazards: causes‚ distribution pattern‚ consequences and mitigation measures for : y y y y y y Earthquake Tsunami Cyclone Flood Drought Landslide 10 17 23 30 34 39 FOREWORD The recurrent occurrences of various natural and manmade disasters like the December 2004 Tsunami‚ the bomb blasts in the cinema halls of Delhi and many such incidences have diverted our focus towards safety of one’s own life. In the previous class of VIII
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has demonstrated this ancient truth. William Rees-Mogg INTRODUCTION 1. On the morning of December 26‚ 2004 a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck off the Northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The earthquake resulted from complex slip on the fault where the oceanic portion of the Indian Plate slides under Sumatra‚ part of the Eurasian Plate. The earthquake deformed the ocean floor‚ pushing the overlying water up into a tsunami wave. The tsunami wave devastated nearby areas where the
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provide mobile medical care. That same year‚ MERCY Malaysia sent relief teams to Turkey in response to the 1999 İzmit earthquake. In 2000‚ MERCY Malaysia provided medical assistance to the Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) due to conflict in Maluku‚ Indonesia. The year after saw the organization responding to the medical needs of the survivors of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake. Later in 2001‚ MERCY Malaysia responded to the survivors of the Cambodia floods in Kampong Cham. In October 2001‚ the
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Kobe earthquake in Japan 1995 struck at 5.45am. Many people were asleep in bed‚ causing the hazard to be increased because the people were unaware. Although many Japanese buildings were of aseismic design‚ the roofs of their houses were designed to withstand typhoons and so were very heavy. When the earthquake struck many people were crushed in their sleep. Also every year on 1st September Japan has national earthquake preparedness day to remember the 140000 that died in the Tokyo earthquake of 1923
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typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover. TYPES OF NATURAL DISASTERS: 1-EARTHQUAKES: An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth’s surface‚ earthquakes manifest themselves by vibration‚ shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. 2-VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS: The effects include the volcanic eruption itself that may cause
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examples of where volcanic and seismic events have had an impact on both MEDCs and LEDCs. Some of these include the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and the consequential tsunami. In this essay I will show how the impact of volcanic and seismic events have a greater impact on poorer countries than on richer countries. Although prevention of either an earthquake or a volcanic eruption isn’t possible‚ it is possible to manage them and reduce the overall impact. This should‚ in
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Introduction I’m going to talk about a tsunami which hit many places in Asia and some parts of Africa which left many homeless and Thousands dead. A tsunami is a giant wave of series of waves usually caused to be a volcanic eruption or earthquakes o the seabed. As the Tsunami travels through deep water‚ the wave may be less than metre high but can reach speeds of up to 500 mph. When the wave nears the land it slows down and quickly increases in height of up to 15 meters before crash
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