Thunderstorm and Other Natural Disasters: Impact on It Systems

Introduction

Information Technology (IT) become an important part of business nowadays. Organizations will try to secure their own IT environment, but they have limited control over the IT system. Besides, natural disasters become an important role that will cause impact system security issues, fatalities, property damage, and social environmental disruption. Natural disasters may occur unpredictably and without any warning regardless of the geographical area and time. Therefore, natural disasters may be unconcerned about the threat of tsunamis, but every location comes with some potential for a natural emergency. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, and things like thunderstorms regularly feature in our news reports. Each region has particular risks, be it hillside brushfires and mudslides, coastal storms and flooding, or southern plains twisters in tornado alley. To protect the organization’s data, the company will find a variety of ways including backups and duplication of the data to ensure the safety of data.

Thunderstorm: Impact and Risks

A thunderstorm kenned as a lightning storm or an electrical storm is a storm with the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, Thunderstorms transpire in a type of cloud called a cumulonimbus. They are commonly accompanied by vigorous winds, and frequently deftly rain, but some thunderstorms produce little precipitation or no precipitation at all. Severe thunderstorms will bring a series of dangerous weather phenomena, such as tornadoes, strong winds, and large hail. Thunderstorms can occur or form in any geographic place but mostly appear in mid-latitude, where hot, humid air from tropical latitudes collides with cooler air from polar latitudes. Thunderstorms and the accompanying phenomena present excellent dangers. Damage resulting from thunderstorms is primarily caused by heavy precipitation caused by downburst winds, big hailstones, and flash flooding. Stronger thunderstorm cells can produce waterspouts and tornadoes.

Earthquakes: Impact and Risks

Earthquake - Whatever sudden shaking of the ground caused by the seismic waves of Earth’s rocks. The hypocenter is the location under the earth’s surface where the earthquake begins, and the epicenter known as the location directly above it on the surface of the earth. Sometimes an earthquake has foreshocks, the earthquake will occur with mild tremors preceding then happens the larger earthquake that follows. Scientists could not able identify the foreshock until the larger earthquake happens. The largest earthquake of the main earthquake is called the mainshock. The aftershock always follows the mainshock. The aftershocks can occur continuously for a few days, weeks, months, or even years that depend on the mainshock. One of the historical earthquakes known as the Wenchuan earthquake, occurred on May 12, 2008.

Risks of Heatwaves and Cold Waves

Heatwave - It is a period of excessively hot weather, that is accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate countries. The heat wave is measured relative to the weather and normal temperature of the season of that area. It is also known as extreme weather, and a danger because the sunlight and heat may cause the human body to overheat. Heat waves can be detected by using forecasting instruments early warning call can be conducted before it occurs. Critical heat waves can cause catastrophic crop failures, wide range power outages due to the increased use of technology. July 2019 was the hottest month record in worldwide, mostly affected outstanding, especially in Europe. In other effects, increased wildfires occur in places such as Spain can also be attributed to heat waves.

Conclusion

A cold wave is known as a weather phenomenon that is identified by a cooling of the air. Specifically, as used by the U.S. The National Weather Service, a cold wave define as a temperature drop rapidly within 24 hour period requiring substantially increased protection to industry, commerce, agriculture, and social activities. The precise measure of the cold wave is determined by the rate determined by which the temperature falls. The cold wave affected much of the Deep South in the United States and Florida in January and February 2010. In 2017, a cold wave hit Central and East Europe on January 5. The lowest temperature was −45.4 °C degrees. The cold caused at least 60 deaths. There was also massive snowfall.  

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