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Candide And His Friends Heavily Damaged Earthquake
1,115 wordsThe earthquake began at 9: 30 on November 1 st, 1755, and was centered in the Atlantic Ocean, about 200 km WSW of Cape St. Vincent. The total duration of shaking lasted ten minutes and was comprised of three distinct jolts. Effects from the earthquake were far reaching. The worst damage occurred in the south-west of Portugal. Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, was the largest and the most important of the cities damaged. Severe shaking was felt in North Africa and there was heavy loss of life in Fe...
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Seismic Sea Sea Floor Water
550 wordsA tsunami is a wave train, or series of waves, generated in a body of water. Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, explosions, and even the impact of cosmic bodies, such as meteorites, can generate tsunamis. These waves can savagely attack coastlines, causing devastating property damage and loss of life. In English, the word tsunami means "harbor wave. " Represented by two characters, the top character, "tsu, " means harbor, while the bottom character, "nami, " means "wave. " In the past,...
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Match Very Special Matter Which Country One
797 wordsStatement of Intention: My intended audiences for this piece of writing are teens who are interested in sports. I aim to show them that in times of need how people from all different interests come together as one to help those in need. I plan to do this with a very soft, friendly yet excited tone of writing, which I am writing a journal entry. Dear Diary, Cricket, one of the best sports any can play, where eleven fielders and two batsmen stand on a field trying to show how they are better than ...
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Make The World Natural Disasters
760 wordsBreaking the silence By Kheyal Azam Khalil The Asian Tsunami has resulted in the loss of more than 200, 000 lives and the death toll in increasing by every passing day. This natural catastrophe is shocking for the entire world and has thus evoked global concern. As the world moves on and is already forgetting all about it, they leave a heavy job on the shoulders of the UNICEF and other relief organisations. The awareness about this issue has reached virtually every one and certainly the youth is...
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Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean
1,327 wordsPlease note this is a "Scientific Report" not an essay please bare this in mind. Introduction The word Tsunami is a Japanese term meaning wave in the harbour. It is the most apt description for the hazard as tidal wave or seismic wave lead to incorrect connotations and misunderstandings. The dictionary definition of the word Tsunami itself means a very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption, this is only half accurate, which I will attempt to illustrate in this ...
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Gravitational Pull Ocean Bottom
1,386 wordsPhysics of Tsunamis Wendy M. Blevins PS 102 Explorations in Physics Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Abstract This paper will discuss the physics and warning systems of tsunamis, a destructive wave force that researchers have been studying for many years. Tsunamis are different than tides or surface waves because undersea earthquakes, instead of winds or the gravitational pull of the moon or sun, generate them. They can reach speeds of up to 700 kilometers per hour but can be undetected unti...
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Sri Lanka Tsunami A Social Autopsy Part 1
1,664 wordsSri Lanka Tsunami: A Social Autopsy What this paper is about: The country of Sri Lanka was hit my a huge Tsunami December of 2004, and it still has not recovered. This paper will describe the country before and after the tsunami hit and analyze what should have been done, what can be done now and the outlook for the future. Before the Tsunami, Sri Lanka, which used to be Ceylon, was a peaceful and relatively prosperous island country in the Indian Ocean, near to India across the Page Strait. It ...
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Sri Lanka Tsunami A Social Autopsy Part 2
1,665 words... were the biggest problems to follow. There were also case of pneumonia and lung inflammations from water inhalation during the inundation, especially among women and children who would have had trouble staying above water. Also, minor injuries become easily infected. A greater danger than that posed by unburied dead bodies would be nitrogen poisoning from mass graves leaching into groundwater, so that had to be watched. Identifying the bodies was a worse problem than burying them, so they to...
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Miles Per Hour Natural Disasters
1,094 wordsNatural Disasters The natural disasters have existed since the world creation. The description of the first disaster, the Noah's Flood is given in the Bible. That was the Creators will to send the first flood to the man. Nowadays the natural disasters occur now and then in the various parts of the globe. Natural disasters are caused by the natural cataclysms. Natural phenomena may turn to a disaster. The disaster may be defined as Calamity caused by nature resulting in loss of life or destructio...
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How The Recent Tsunami Effected Corporate Risk Management
660 wordsHow the Recent Tsunami Effected Corporate Risk Management The major topic of the discussion that concerns effects of the tsunami is the promotion of risk management services and implementation of warning mechanisms. The first problem now lies in the attitude of the people to the insurance services. Insurance system provides clients with a perfectly working mechanism, which foresees a range of all potential dangers and risks, which may occur, adjusting the system to the special needs of the clien...
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Charleston S C Volcanic Eruptions
2,884 wordstrembling or Natural Disasters earthquake, trembling or shaking movement of the earths surface. Most earthquakes are minor tremors. Larger earthquakes usually begin with slight tremors but rapidly take the form of one or more violent shocks, and end in vibrations of gradually diminishing force called aftershocks. The subterranean point of origin of an earthquake is called its focus; the point on the surface directly above the focus is the epicenter. The magnitude and intensity of an earthquake i...
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Lava Flow Complex Dome And Lava Flow Complex Augustine
613 wordsSt. Augustine Volcano Augustine Volcano is the most frequently active and the youngest of the Cook Inlet volcanoes. Detterman considered Augustine to be entirely Quaternary and Johnston concluded that volcanism at Augustine began during the late Pleistocene Moosehorn glacial advance 19, 000 - 15, 500 IBP. Since its discovery by Captain James Cook in 1778, Augustine Volcano has had seven historical eruptions. 1883, 1935, 1979, 1985, 1986, and 1987. Yount and others, 1987. The activity in 1908, re...
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