Essays on Disasters

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Legal and Regulatory Issues of The Disaster Management in India

3 pages / 1503 words

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...

India Natural Disasters Tourism

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The Catastrophic Cyclone of April 1991 in Bangladesh

4 pages / 1774 words

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...

Bangladesh Natural Disasters

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The Issue of Earthquake Faults

1 page / 556 words

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...

Earthquake Environmental Issues Natural Disasters

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The Economics During and after Kerala’s Flood Disaster

1 page / 675 words

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....

Economy Flood Natural Disasters

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On The Sharp Edge of Falling 

3 pages / 1407 words

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...

Earthquake Environmental Education

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Report on Natural Disaster: Hurricane Katrina

3 pages / 1376 words

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...

Hurricane Katrina Natural Disasters

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The Wahine Disaster: Overview of The Mistakes Made

2 pages / 920 words

The Initial Oversight 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 8:40 am on April 9, the Wahine still took route. A weather report on April 8 stated...

Natural Disasters

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The Black Death of 1348 as The Greatest Biomedical Disaster in World History

2 pages / 883 words

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...

Black Death Death Natural Disasters

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Hurricane Katrina and Police Brutality in The Us

1 page / 516 words

Introduction Hurricane Katrina was one of the top five deadliest natural disasters that have occurred in the United States. There were approximately 2000 deaths; however, it was not just the storm that caused all of these fatalities. Various other factors contributed to the death toll...

Hurricane Police Brutality

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The Impact of Hurricanes on The Logistics and Freight Enterprise in America

2 pages / 767 words

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,...

Hurricane

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Why People Loot During Disasters and What Can Be Done to Resolve The Issue

3 pages / 1572 words

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...

Natural Disasters Robbery Society

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Probable Causes of Intraplate Earthquakes

1 page / 464 words

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...

Earth Earthquake Plate Tectonics

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Optimal Path Search Algorithm for Emergency Cases

5 pages / 2406 words

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...

Earthquake Emergency Management

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Ancient Disasters in The World

2 pages / 1096 words

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...

Challenges Natural Disasters

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Safety Measures to Survive a Hail Storm

1 page / 396 words

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...

Automobile Cars Natural Disasters

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A Comparative Analysis of The Sumatra Tsunami to that of Japan

3 pages / 1325 words

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...

Natural Disasters

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Earthquakes Definition

1 page / 592 words

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...

Earthquake

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The Science of Earthquakes

3 pages / 1178 words

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...

Earth Science Earthquake

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Assessment of The Writing by Bruce Newman About The Water Shortage in California

4 pages / 1690 words

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...

California Drought