YounghoonShim ENGL2261 5/16/2012 The stress No one can be free from stress today. The stress is origin of all kinds of disease. Everybody knows that our life can’t be separated from stress. For example‚ Students when the examination approaches‚ psychologically
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History of Tsunami Events Need Emergency Advice? Please listen to your local radio and TV announcements or call 1300 TSUNAMI (1300 878 6264) for latest warning information. For emergency assistance‚ call your local emergency authority on 132 500 Recent Tsunamis affecting Australia * 28 February 2010 * 15 July 2009 List of past tsunami events around the world Tsunamis through history Destructive tsunamis have occurred in all of the world’s oceans and seas. The following table lists some
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What exactly are tsunamis? Tsunamis are immensely strong‚ long length and long period sea waves. Tsunamis have caused much grief and sorrow for anyone who have experienced it. The term tsunami comes from the Japanese language meaning harbor and wave. The term was created by fishermen who returned to port to find the area surrounding their harbor devastated‚ although they had not been aware of any wave in the open water. Tsunamis are common throughout Japanese history‚ as 195 events in Japan have
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Cause and Effects of Tsunami A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water‚ typically an ocean or a large lake. The effects of tsunami will bring a lot of problem to the nation and community. The effects of tsunami will bring a lot of problem to the nation and community .The general cause of tsunami is earthquakes and it will makes environmental impact and destruction. Firstly‚the main cause of tsunami is from the effect of
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Japan Tsunami and Earthquake Sion Hau 7D 31/07/11 An earthquake occurred in Sendai‚ Japan on the 11th of March in 2011; this earthquake also resulted in a tsunami. The earthquake measured at magnitude 8.9-9.0 on the Richter scale‚ the scale is measured in powers of ten (e.g. magnitude 2.0 is ten times more than magnitude 1.0). Japan sits on the Ring of Fire (an area encircling Pacific Ocean that has high volcanic and earthquake
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buildings‚ and a layer of mud nearly a foot thick accumulated on the shoreline after the tsunami struck. (After the Tsunamis). After twenty minutes of chaos‚ the lives of the residents as well as the tourists encompassing the Indian Ocean Region including Banda Aceh would be changed forever. The Boxing Day tsunami had numerous detrimental effects such on people‚ property‚ and the environment which ultimately raised tsunami awareness around the Indian Ocean region. There were many harmful effects to the
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Main article: Historic tsunami[->0] As early as 426 B.C.[->1] the Greek[->2] historian Thucydides[->3] inquired in his book History of the Peloponnesian War[->4] about the causes of tsunami‚ and was the first to argue that ocean earthquakes must be the cause.[5]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Smid.2C_T._C._103f.-5"[6] The cause‚ in my opinion‚ of this phenomenon must be sought in the earthquake. At the point where its shock has been the most violent the sea is driven back‚ and suddenly recoiling with
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Prevention Nicole Griffin HSM/210 April 5‚ 2015 Elise Merenda Prevention The targeted population that I chose to write about is the homeless. With over 4‚000 people dealing with homelessness in Connecticut‚ the majority of these people facing this problem have some sort of mental illness‚ physical disabilities‚ or dealing with a form of substance abuse problem ("Partnership for Strong Communities"‚ 2015). A lot of this problem stems from the people being released prematurely from mental hospitals
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2011 The Hilo Bay: Tsunami Magnet of Hawaii On the afternoon of 22 May 1960 the Valdivia Earthquake struck the country of Chile with devastating repercussions for the Chilean people and people around the world. The Earthquake rated a 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale and is‚ to date‚ the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. It occurred at roughly 1911 GMT‚ 1411 local time‚ and generated a massive tsunami that struck Hawaii approximately fifteen hours later. The tsunami caused little damage
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a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that destroyed Japan and surrounding states. The tsunami was formed by an earthquake underwater. Underwater earthquakes happen because of the collision of plates and it causes the fault line to slide‚ when a force pushes the water upwards that causes many tsunamis which gradually increases till they strike land or shallow water. This in this case happened to Japan. Before this major tsunami happened in Japan many people didn’t know that they had a magnitude of 5 or higher
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