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....” These plates do so at “transform fault boundaries.” (Nave, 2005) The three types of boundaries are diagrammed as follows: Source: Natural Disasters Association URL: http://www.n-d-a.org/images/tectonic-plate-boundaries.jpg Mantle Convection and Plate Motion (Slab Pull, Ridge Push, Mantle Plumes) Several geological forces cause the movements of the plates to form the boundaries. One of these is “ridge push” which refers to the horizontal pushing force that results from the cooling and thickening of the oceanic lithosphere with age. Ridge push is responsible for divergence. Another force is “slab pull” and this refers to the downward pulling force due to the negative buoyancy of the cold...
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...). This significantly increased the rate of investment in social capital by the residents of Kobe. However, rate of investment by the people living in the cities near Kobe did not show any noteworthy change. From this phenomenon the author has inferred that the impact of the disaster decreases with distance; the effect of the disaster is lesser in the minds of the people that stay far away from the origin of disaster (Yamamura, 2010). Although natural disasters are occurring with increasing frequency and are creating potentially devastating impact on the economies that face it, the economic cause of the disaster has not...
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...step to demonstrate the dependence we have on one another. No country, regardless of wealth, military standing, or political power can stand without being affected by its worldwide community. That point was driven home with deadly accuracy on September 11, 2001 when a struggling poor nation barely thought of by most Americans at the time brought the United States to its knees. This example explains better than a thousand books could how each country is affected by the economics and climates of each other and how we all share a joint 'vulnerability'. To understand this is to understand that a problem on the other side of the world is and should be considered ours as well. That being said,...
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...W131 - Beck Writing Project #2 Draft Natural Disasters: The people deserve help. Human beings have advanced to levels that were difficult to be imagined by their ancestors with major developments in technology as well as in other fields. Control has been achieved over important factors that influence the human life and hence this has resulted in a better quality of life. But there are certain areas where a being becomes helpless. Natural disasters and catastrophes are examples of these. The recent earthquake that struck Haiti greatly affected the living conditions of the Haitians and the after effects of the quake demanded early attention and help from...
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...Crisis Intervention and the Victims of Natural Disasters First Last al Affiliation Introduction Floods, earthquakes, fire, hurricanes and tornadoes, tsunami – all are disasters out of human beings’ control bounds. These natural phenomena almost always come unexpectedly, leaving people taken aback as they hit the land. Unlike birthday surprises, the effects they leave behind are traumatic; they cause people physical, financial, emotional and psychological stresses. People with these kinds of stresses often not only need personal interventions but also require the help of others to be able to deal with and modify the situation so as to improve them. This observance became the basis of the existence of crisis intervention.
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...Oceans, they are referred as the hurricanes while in the Southern Pacific they are referred as the Cyclones (WTVY 2002)
In other pacific regions, they are called typhoons. Hurricanes have had significant negative impacts on the environment as well as on human well-being. A case of the disastrous nature of the hurricanes has been of observed in the Haiti on August 2008 where hurricane hit the Central Plateau Region submerging several homesteads as well as death of dozens of people. Property worth million dollars were also lost (WTVY 2002)
The Hurricane formation process
Tropical cyclones develop over warm waters from...
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...of the natural disasters are tied to the environment in which they occur, which is manipulated by humankind. In this speech, I will discuss earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods, citing their causes and effects, and possible prevention.
Let us start with earthquakes. Theses happen when tectonic forces cause tectonic plates comprising the earth’s crust, to collide. This causes vibrations of varying magnitudes to be transferred from underground to the crust. If these forces have high magnitude, the effects of the earthquake will be severe as compared to low magnitude forces. An example of severe earthquake is the one that hit Haiti in 2010,...
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9/11 and Hurricane Katrina Disaster Evaluation
Introduction
Throughout American history, there have occurred numerous tragedies and natural disasters ranging from deadly tornadoes, to massive wildfires, to hurricanes, wars and terrorist attacks. However, the 9/11 coordinated multiple attacks were the worst terrorist acts in American history, with nearly 3,000 innocent civilians killed as a result of hijacking of four commercial jetliners (Galea & et tal, 2002). The attacks involved a section of the Pentagon, the New York twin towers comprising the World Trade Center, and the deaths of the jetliner passengers including the terrorist...
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...The Hurricane Disaster
Introduction
Brief summaries of the articles, including response and recovery information, discuss the accuracy, timeliness, and clarity of the information disseminated in each article.
The article in the New York Times has brief details on the hurricane disaster. The reporters move throughout the affected and allowed areas observing the damage carried out by the storm on infrastructure such as roads and buildings. The information provided is accurate as well as clearly presented abused on the events that took place including the remarks made by the governor of the affected state (Treaster & Zernike, 2005).
The next article by Kay, (2005) is...
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...from ht zones, the rise of gas prices, $81 billion in property damages, unemployment in farm areas and the general fall in the US economy. Hurricane pummeled a large area of the New Orleans, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. Since the occurrence of the natural disaster, the US government has set funds for such emergencies and has joined forces with the other countries in the East by pledging some money in form of donations for assistance after the occurrence of a natural disaster (Torres, 2006).
The Hurricane Katrina
Before Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi and...
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