Essays on Natural Disasters

1. Define the natural hazard A natural hazard is a natural phenomenon that might have a negative effect on humans or the environment. Natural hazards can cause a negative effect and impact on humans and the environment as natural hazards can damage the environment and can cause serious injuries to people. Natural hazards occur from...

Nature of Droughts National Geographic defines a drought as “an extended period of unusually dry weather when there is not enough rain.” However, this is only one factor in the broad term of drought as there are four different types of droughts. Meteorological drought: when there has been a decrease in precipitation than normal over...

24 August 2005 In the Bahamas, a storm starts to form. Early that day the tropical depression picked up moisture, heat, and speed. As the speed of the vicious winds incline it turns into a tropical storm. It is then named Katrina. On the coast of Florida, the warning is announced. 25 August 2005 By...

Natural disasters are catastrophic events that occur all over the world resulting in fatalities, property loss and social environmental disruption. Humanitarian crisis causes interference to day to day life where people who are victims are immediately flung into the act of distress due to the loss of everything where annually natural disasters kill around 90,...

Hurricane is a strong storm that goes around in circle, the wind is very strong, if the wind is less 39 mph then the name for this will be tropic depression and when the wind is higher than 39 mph it will be called tropical storms and the wind can go up to 79 mph...

Circulation of the ocean The flow of the seas is answerable for about half of the vehicle of vitality from the tropics to the shafts. As in the air, the dissemination is driven by the warming of surface waters in the tropics, and cooling at the shafts. Cold surface flows travel equator wards and warm...

Among one of the largest economy boosters that is the gas and oil business of hydraulic fracturing, stands one of the largest feuds with opposing arguments. Something that states such as Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas have “revolved around since statehood” (Sanburn). In this paper will be discussed the feud between oil and gas corporations against...

Tornadoes are one of the better recognizable natural hazards. They can be both beautiful and terrifying at the same time. They can be extremely weak or very powerful and can be identified and ranked as anywhere from an EF0-EF5. They occur mostly in an area of the United States called tornado alley and Dixie alley....

Flooding is amongst the highly destructive, frequent and prevalent environmental hazards and it is of different kind and magnitude ((Wizor and Week, 2014). Flood is an unavoidable natural phenomenon occurring continually in rivers and natural drainage systems, which damages the lives, natural resources and environment, as well as, causes loss of economy and health on...

The main purpose of this report is to analyse and evaluate the impact on social and economic role of business relating to the 2018 New South Wales (NSW) droughts. According to the NSW Department of Primary Industries 77% of NSW is either in drought or drought affected, while 23% is experiencing intense drought. In this...