Essays on Natural Disasters

Introduction This assay is based on El Nino as a frequent event, the impacts El Nino attributes on South African economy, food security, farm practices and labour relations. It also includes what global warming is, its causes and the difference between global warming and climate change. Furthermore, discuss why global warming and climate change effects...

Nurses serve a critical role in emergency preparedness at the local, state, and national levels through planning, community and consumer education, and direct care provided during disasters. An earthquake is a shaking of the Earth, specific region not the whole Earth, caused by the stress placed on the Earth’s crust from the shifting of the...

Is Hydraulic Fracturing Responsible for Earthquakes? Introduction to the Controversy Hydraulic Fracturing knew as ‘fracking’, is a process that is carried out by drilling horizontally down the earth using intense high-pressure to extract Earths resources. By injecting millions of gallons of water containing sand, salt and other toxic chemicals which is then placed into shale...

A hurricane is a storm with violent wind and often originated from tropical storms. Canada and the United States are countries that are often subject to destructive hurricanes, mostly in Category 5. This assignment mainly focuses on the hurricanes that occurred in North America. To begin, forty percent of total hurricanes occurred in the U.S....

Throughout history it is shown that hurricanes are one of the deadliest natural disasters known to man, as they have left houses in ruins, caused people to become disabled, or worse, dead. While the west coast focuses more on tornadoes and volcanoes, the east zeros in on the hurricanes that can lead to much more...

Tornadoes are unpredictable and menacing, though they often bring communities together as well. But what exactly are tornadoes? Tornadoes are perpendicular channels of expeditiously gyrating air. Often, accompanied by heavy rainfall, hail and a tenebrous, slightly viridescent sky. The most callous, destructive and vicious tornadoes come from supercells, a system that produces parlous thunderstorms and...

Introduction On 3 April 2007 a magnitude 8.1 earthquake hit the Solomon Islands at 07:40 local time. This caused shaking that lasted for more than 1 minute. It hit just off the main island of Gizo Province. A short time after, another eight earthquakes of a smaller magnitude triggered a tsunami. This earthquake occurred due...

The 2015 Nepal Earthquake happened at 11:56 AM on the 25th of April ,there was nearly 9,000 casualties and nearly 22,000 injuries with the main injures occurring in the capital Kathmandu. The map above displays an index of the severity of certain parts of the earthquakes like perceived shaking which is how much shaking is...

Overview of the event: Haiti is a poor city; however, it’s better known for its frequent and destructive earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by the movement and tension between the tectonic plates. In this scenario, Haiti lays in between the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates, two major fault lines. The Haiti earthquake is one of...

The article by Tudhope et al. (2001) uses oxygen isotope δ18O composition of coralline aragonite to reconstruct past ENSO activity in Papua New Guinea where they believe that ENSO existed 130,000 years ago. Tudhope et al. (2001) also believes that during the 20th century ENSO has been stronger where they hypothesise that this may be...