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    Tsunami Essay

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    Tsunamis become disasters because of the human context in which they occur. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Use examples of known tsunami events recently and in the past to illustrate your arguments. According to Wisner et al 2004‚ "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability‚” implying that in unpopulated areas hazards can not become disasters as there is no vulnerability (Quarantelli E.L. 1998). Without humans being involved‚ tsunamis are nothing but giant waves; they may modify

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    Soccer Heading Essay

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    skill will improve your passing and receiving skills. Passing is also vital in the game of soccer. <br> <br>Heading is one of the only ways to legally hit the ball when it high in the air. With another player heading can be practiced. One player throws the ball high over top of the other player. The player then will jump up and hit the ball with his forehead and try to control the ball. Heading is very hard and often lots of practice is required. <br> <br>Control of the ball is also very important.

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    [pic]Tsunami From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see Tsunami (disambiguation). [pic] [pic] A destroyed town in Sumatra after being hit by a tsunami‚ caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake A tsunami (plural: tsunamis or tsunami; from Japanese: 津波‚ lit. "harbor wave";[1] English pronunciation: /suːˈnɑːmi/ soo-nah-mee or /tsuːˈnɑːmi/ tsoo-nah-mee[2])‚ also called a tsunami wave train‚[3] and at one time referred to as a tidal wave‚ is a series

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    Tsunamis

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    Tsunamis‚ also called seismic sea waves‚ are giant waves that sometimes crash through cities near the ocean. They are generally caused by earthquakes. I have done further research to dig deeper on subject about the power of a tsunami. To generate tsunamis‚ earthquakes must occur under or near the ocean‚ and has to be large and create movements in the sea floor. Anyone close to the ocean can experience a tsunami‚ but in the Pacific Ocean there is a much more frequent occurrence of large‚ destructive

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    TSUNAMI Introduction 1. Tsunami is a Japanese word meaning “Harbor water”. Tsunami is in most cases the result of sea-bed earthquake. The latest tsunami was the largest of its type since the magnitude Good Friday earthquake of Alaska in 1964. It took a death toll of about 200‚000 people and immense property. Since last 100 years‚ this has been the greatest disaster that the Asian region suffered. It measured 8.9 in the Richter scale and generated a gigantic tidal surge

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    Tsunami EENS 3050 Tulane University Natural Disasters Prof. Stephen A. Nelson Tsunami This page last updated on 02-Jul-2012 Up until December of 2004‚ the phenomena of tsunami was not on the minds of most of the world’s population. That changed on the morning of December 24‚ 2004 when an earthquake of moment magnitude 9.1 occurred along the oceanic trench off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. This large earthquake resulted in vertical displacement of the sea floor and generated a tsunami that

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    Tsunami Statistics Damaging Tsunamis vs Non-damaging Tsunamis - Worldwide 107 82 137 99 54 80 112 88 67 76 12 13 12 17 13 14 16 18 5 21 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 1900-1909 1910-1919 1920-1929 1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959 1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 Decade (20th Century) Number of Tsunamis Damaging Tsunamis Non-Damaging Tsunamis Most Damaging Tsunamis Worldwide Deaths Year Location Name 40000 1782 S. CHINA SEA 36500 1883 S. JAVA SEA 30000 1707

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    Tsunami in Japan The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued warnings for Russia‚ Taiwan‚ Hawaii‚ Indonesia‚ the Marshall Islands‚ Papua New Guinea‚ Australia‚ and the west coasts the U.S.‚ Mexico‚ Central America‚ and South America Earthquake Causes Nuclear Disaster The cooling system at the reactor failed shortly after the earthquake. Officials feared that a meltdown may occur‚ and radioactive material was detected outside the plant. These fears were realized on Sunday‚ when officials said they

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    Japan Tsunami Essay

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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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    Heading for 2080

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    Heading for 2080 Future‚a notion that has held incredible power and fascination over menkind since the very begining of its history.All people‚ranging from fortune tellers or religious preachers or prophets to more academic individuals like scientists have ventured their imagination into this “unknown land” in the quest to predict what it has instored for us.The ones who were wrong have been lost along with their beliefs in the pages of history but the ones who where right are nowadays knows as

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