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On the 17th of January 1995, a great earthquake struck the Japanese city of Kobe at 5:40 am. Over 80% of the quake victims died together with Mrs Endo, her husband, however, did not! There are numerous reasons why, the aim of this essay is to explain them to you. The earthquake started due to…

Black Saturday was a period of bushfires that occurred in Victoria from February 7, 2009, to March 14, 2009. It is remembered as a series of approximately 400 individual fires that started on February 7, 2009. The majority of these fires were caused by power lines falling or clashing, lightning, discarded cigarette butts, and sparks…

On July 28, 1976, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (other sources estimate the magnitude as high as 8.2-8.3 on the Richter scale) occurred in the People’s Republic of China, with the epicenter near Tangshan, the Hebei Province. The earthquake struck at 3:42 a.m. and lasted for 10-14 seconds resulting in an extensive 6-mile-long fault in the…

Every twelvemonth there are about a million temblors. Fortunately, non all of them are destructive. The strength of an temblor is measured on the Richter Scale, which goes from zero upward. Major harm by and large occurs from temblors runing from 6.0 upwards. The damaging temblors besides occur either in the narrow belt, which surrounds…

As much as people try and try, they cannot keep natural disasters from striking but what they can try to do is keep an eye out and try to avoid being right in the middle of a natural disaster when they come, especially with the technology that is available today. The dictionary definition of “natural…

People’s lives can change in a blink of an eye. Tomorrow is not promised; you don’t know what’s going to happen next. Natural disasters can be predicted and some can not. Natural disasters are events that are out of human control and they are consisted of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, blizzards, wildfires, tornadoes and volcano…

This article focuses on interventions currently being utilized in an attempt to reverse or remedy the harm caused by natural disasters spawning from a rise in sea-levels. However, this article does not focus specifically on the Marshall Islands and instead gathers and draws from data from several other island nations. Moreover, this article addresses the…

Introduction Canada is a large country that faces the risk of various natural hazards such as floods, droughts, tornadoes, and landslides. These disasters have been experienced in the past and have led to huge losses that have affected the residents and the country at large. Natural disasters such as the Goderich tornado and the Alberta…

Many roles play into a part of a country’s human development. One would be life expectancy, which is around an average age of 76. As China is a larger country, some to many of the citizens living there are not able to afford health care, possibly causing a semi-lower life rate. Although healthcare isn’t ideally…

Introduction Weather disasters on Earth have occurred long before humans walked the Earth. I am sure that when Earth was young, weather disasters would have been much more extreme and violent. During the Jurassic era and times before we came along in the early ages of mammals, it was said to be very hot here…