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...
Disaster struck the United States’ trucking business in the form of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, single-handedly affecting 10 percent of the U.S. trucking industry. Effects on the industry are expected to last until January, a devastating blow to not only trucking companies, but their consumers,...
What is a disaster? According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies a disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the...
Probable causes and governing factors related to the manifestation and distribution of intraplate earthquakes are proved to be very much subtle. Different researchers have tried to explain this earthquake in different perception and several model have been proposed till date. On a global context, occurrence...
Introduction Evacuation planning is an essential element of emergency planning for companies and organizations. In general terms, people should make their way to a safe place during the evacuation. Situations such as earthquakes, fires, gas leaks, or subsidence may be the reason for an evacuation...
Natural disasters such as hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes have been happening since before recorded history, which means that they have been shaping history for centuries. Even more than that, discovering remains centuries later has provided important insight into the past, and let us see...
Every year, dangerous storms, floods and tornadoes, damage property and nature. A large number of vehicles also face damage due to the storms in the sense they become unsafe for use. While some become unsafe to use, others are left out because the repair cost...
Tale Of Two Tsunamis From time to time, various parts of the world undergo unfortunate tragic events, natural disasters, which are caused by the uncontainable forces of nature. Natural disasters include avalanches, lightning, tsunamis, tornadoes, volcano eruptions, floods, and hurricanes. Wildfires are also part of...
To begin with, according to U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 9th congressional district Jan Schakowsky an earthquake is “There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when...
What is an Earthquake? An earthquake is what happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another. The surface where they slip is called the fault or fault plane. The location below the earth’s surface where the earthquake starts is called the...
Introduction California and a few other western states are currently being punished with a drought that may go down as one of the worst in the last 150 years. The current drought is forcing the entire population of California to go into a water conserving...
Earthquake-proof Buildings After the massive earthquake near Japan one wonders if it’s possible to build an earthquake-proof building? The answer is yes and no. There are of course, engineering techniques that can be used to create a very sound structure that will endure a modest...
Scientists could predict whether or not major earthquakes are likely to occur, however, based on the movement of the plates in the Earth and the location of fault zones. They also can make general guesses about when earthquakes might occur in a certain area, by...
An earthquake is when the ground starts shaking caused by a slip on a fault. Stresses in the earth’s outer layer push the sides of the fault together. Stress builds up and the rocks suddenly slip releasing a ton of energy in waves that travel...
Tsunamis happen most often in the pacific ocean and Indonesia. This happens because the pacific Rim bordering the ocean has a large number of submarine earthquake zones. Meanwhile tsunamis have also happened in the Mediterranean sea region. A tsunami is also expected to happen in...