Essay on Earthquake in Nepal

Status (TPS) extended to some 50,000 Haitians living in the United States will expire and unless extended most of them will be deported to an uncertain future in a country still dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters. After the devastating earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010, the Obama administration granted Temporary Protected Status to Haitian immigrants who were already in the United States. This protected status protects them from deportation. The decision of…

Prevention measures are aimed at minimizing the impact of a tsunami in terms of loss of life, primarily by reducing the density of occupancy in tsunami inundation zones, especially for tsunami run-up areas. As shown in Table 3, prevention measures mainly refer to land use management such as open land development regulations, planning and zoning, and open space preservation. For example, open space preservation refers to the maintenance or to the conversion of specific at-risk areas to parks or…

book was written in 2006, two years after the colossal tsunami hit places in the Indian Ocean, and the author was a rescue worker in the ruins of Aceh, giving Lewis a setting to use for a book that could express just how deadly and destructive the earthquake and the tsunami it consequently triggered was, through intriguing historical fiction. A New York Times article named…

Just before 8:00am local time on Boxing Day 2004 a magnitude 9.3 earthquake occurred about 240 kilometres off the coast of Sumatra and about 30 kilometres below the ocean floor. The earthquake jolted the seabed for nearly 10 minutes. It was one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded. This submarine earthquake, provided the initial disturbance in the height of the ocean’s surface. For a short time after the earthquake, the motion of the tsunami was governed by a linear wave pattern,…

Sidebar: The largest tsunami wave ever recorded happened in 1958. An earthquake triggered a massive rockslide on the shore of Lituya Bay in southeast Alaska. Almost forty million tons of rocks splashed into bay. The sudden impact generated a tsunami that crashed against the other shoreline, flooding the area. The local tsunami traveled down the length of the bay and into the Gulf of Alaska, taking millions of trees as it blasted through the water. The wave reached a run-up height of 1,720 feet.…

Sri Lanka was relatively poor as it was still a developing country. Their average income was roughly $1,000 US dollars. Nobel prize winner, Mohan Munasinghe, describes the community as primarily homeless and unprepared for this catastrophic event. He uses the term civil society to describe the mass of people who came together and formed local groups to help evacuate remaining survivors. The groups set up refugee camps in safe neighborhoods and schools as well as provided food and water. The…

The book The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis is based on the terrible tsunami of 2004. The tsunami happened on December 25th and was caused by a very large earthquake in the Indian Sea. The theme was that in times of great trouble and tribulation people will change their ways and become more respectful and helpful. ¨Within 15 minutes, tsunami waves were crashing the coast of Sumatra. At the north end of the island was a heavily populated region known as Aceh. There, waves reached 80 feet high over…

Sonali Deraniyagala, in her novel Wave, stated, “All these waves now, charging, churning. Suddenly furious. Suddenly menacing” (Deraniyagala 5). She and her family were experiencing a destructive tsunami. This novel displays Sonali’s life after the tsunami. There are a plethora of differences among the other novels and the novel Wave; it is a memoir, a story of grief, and a story of natural disaster. Unlike the other novels read in class, Wave is a memoir. This is important because the…

Tracing back through history, mankind has tried to caution upcoming generations of horrific overland deluge events. You can discover this message in the epic tales of the Sumerian King Gilgamesh. It is juxtaposed with the Hebrew Bible referencing Noah. The Abrahamic and Babylonian regions have warning stories as well. Other places such as Japan and the Hawaiian Islands have passed down forewarnings and changed their life to face this ominous threat. They tell stories of whole towns and villages…

It was December of 2004 in Aceh, Indonesia, and Richard Lewis was 60 year old author living in Bali, Indonesia. Richard Lewis longed to write a story to represent the lesson, be cooperative and show teamwork. As a volunteer after the tsunami took place, Richard Lewis was able to witness with his own eyes, the misery and destruction after a major disaster that affected many innocent lives. One historical fact is that Lewis knew about how many people were killed from this tragedy. About 228,000…