Essays on Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters are never a good thing. In areas where they happen, they affect everything in a negative way. They can destroy whole town, cities, the economy, infrastructure, and in some cases the human population. They wreak havoc on whatever they touch. Probably the thing...

Earthquake is a natural disaster, always threatening the lives of people. On May 12th, 2008, a terrible earthquake took place in Sichuan. Most houses fell down. Thousands of people were killed or injured and the whole cities were destroyed. This earthquake is like nature reminds...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Introduction 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...

Abstract Climate change has, since the 1970s become an increasingly unanimous science, with fewer and fewer people dissenting to the view that man is causing the climate to shift, i.e. is the cause of anthropogenic climate change. However, solutions to this used to be viewed...

Think about how life would be if there is no earthquake? Build an imagery of what Earth will look like. You will probably say that there would be less destruction, loss of lives and earth would be a safer place to live in. But earthquake...

In the 21st century the world has been taken aback by the yearly natural and man-made disasters that have occurred everywhere. No matter how prepared we believe are there is always area of improvement or an area of learning after each and every disaster. Specifically...

Have you ever been present in a category 5 hurricane? If the answer is no let me tell you that I just wish you never had to go through an experience like that. In September 20 Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico. All the residents in...

Abstract The location of Puerto Rico makes it vulnerable to seismic activity due to the different sources that surround the Island. This is why the risk of a tsunami affecting the island increases as it did in 1918. The Puerto Rico Trench, located to the...

Caitria and Morgan O’Neill are two sisters who come from the city of Monson. Their hometown was hit by a tornado, and they felt the urge to offer their help to the townsfolk. They realized that when a disaster occurs more so naturally, there is...

Nature is the most precious thing that the earth has. However, there are times when Mother Nature gets angry and natural disasters come down. It may be a long-term rainstorm causing flooding, which may be prolonged droughts, etc. No matter how it occurs, natural disasters...

Hurricane Dorian hit the Abaco Islands in September 1st. with winds of 185 mph. Grand Bahama was later affected at an identical intensity, northern side hit with the 185 as a minimum wind speed for 24hrs. That resulted to the utmost catastrophic damages; most structures...

Hurricane Katrina is one of only a handful of catastrophic events that will never be overlooked. The result impacts of this storm were very damaging, and most people were still in shock months to years later. This event is close to being as tragic as...

The emergence of satellite remote sensing brought about a revolution in the field of volcanology. Before the availability of space-based observations, volcano monitoring and investigating lava flow behavior relied on thorough fieldwork. During volcanic eruptions and unrest, frequent observation of the volcano is required to...

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...