Natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, typhoons, and hurricanes inflict serious damage and so seem to be bad for the economy. For firms, natural disasters destroy tangible assets such as buildings and equipment as well as human capital and thereby deteriorate their production capacity. These...
In this paper we will be discussing what, how, and why a drought occurs and what we can do to prevent and stop these droughts and not lose all of our valuable resources. Also going to talk about how it damages the environment and how...
No one can deny the fact that Drought is the main hazard in Canada which creates many issues whenever it occurs. Drought is the main concern in Canada and in Western countries which damage several industries, homes and main cause of death every year. There...
Introduction Natural hazard refers to catastrophic events or phenomenon of atmospheric, geological, and hydrological origins that can cause fatalities, property damage, social environmental disruption and can indirectly cause social grievances and resource scarcities. These includes earthquake, tornadoes, Volcanic eruption, tsunamis, floods, typhoons and thunderstorms, hurricanes...
Tornadoes, characterized by violently rotating winds forming funnel-shaped clouds, represent one of the most devastating natural phenomena. Comprising water, dust, and debris, tornadoes emerge from the collision of dry, cold air masses with warm, moist currents, particularly within supercell updrafts. Their destructive potential lies in...
In the 21st century, humanity has witnessed a plethora of natural and man-made disasters, leaving indelible marks on communities worldwide. These cataclysmic events, ranging from hurricanes and earthquakes to wildfires and industrial accidents, serve as poignant reminders of our vulnerability in the face of nature’s...
Natural hazards have always fascinated me and therefore I made a decision to write this article on the subject. Earthquakes just like other hazards of nature are unpredictable and remain one of the most devastating among all natural disasters. A disturbing yet an inevitable fact...
In many instances, disasters act as catalysts in the adoption of new and emerging technologies. Spawned by the need to rapidly collect vital information for disaster management, technology innovations have often helped emergency responders to assess the impact of large disasters more efficiently and rapidly,...
With the increase of natural disasters occurring in the world today in comparison to decades ago, individuals can perceive risk in different ways as a result of factors such as experience and trust. These different perceptions individuals have about risk can have positive and negative...
Introduction Flood is one of the main and most frequent natural disasters in the world (Jiang et al. , 2006). As revealed by World Meteorological Organization (WMO, 2014), storms and floods accounted for 79 percent of total number of disasters during 1970 to 2012, causing...
Overview of the Event In the month of August 2018, one of the state of India named Kerala has suffered high losses due to the floods that occurred in the state due to heavy rainfall. Kerala is a southern state of India with one of...
Natural disasters are those of which tragedies no one is able to control. They bring great destruction as well as life changing scenarios. An example of a natural disaster would be a cyclone. The best way to describe a cyclone is to compare it with...
Earthquake faults are way more complex than you could have thought. There have been a lot of trial and error geologists have gone through to figure out these natural occurrences and they haven’t even figured out most of their nature hood. So, what do geologists...
The worst flood in nearly a century, over July-August 2018 in God’s own country, Kerala has manifold consequences. Adverse fall in demand especially in a consumption state like Kerala is the crux right now. Agriculture and tourism along with the IT sector are worst hit....
Out of many natural disasters, an earthquake is considered one of the most dangerous and evil. Until these recent days, the prediction of the shocks is one of the hardest tasks for the scientists to do. When the earthquake appears the giant cracks happen in...
The tornado flood from Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on August 29, 2005, caused deplorable fiendishness along the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Levees isolating Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans were broken, over the long haul flooding around 80% of the city Hurricane Katrina...
Though the previous days of weather reports had announced that harsh winds followed by a storm would be surrounding the capital city of Wellington, at 8:40am April 9 the Wahine still took route. A weather report on the 8th of April stated that there were...
The Black Death of 1348 was the greatest biomedical disaster in world history. In only three years the Bubonic plague killed a third of people in Europe (Cantor, pg. 6). Due to a lack of general medical knowledge the plague was easily able to spread...
Hurricane Katrina was one of the top five deadliest natural disasters that have occurred. There were approximately 2000 deaths; however it was not just the storm that caused all of these deaths. There were many other reasons for deaths during Katrina and one of those...