Essay on Tsunami

Indonesia’s Tsunami Challenges: While others are trying to achieve world peace, I convince that Indonesia still needs to struggle reconsolidating with the nature. This consolidation refers to keeping the nature preserved from desolation while the society lives in peaceful minds being safe from disasters. According to Yulianto, et al. (2009), disasters including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, etc. are part of God’s gift along with the earth (including minerals, oil, gas, etc.) that both…

make it to the island. Earlier that year me and my friend Joe , Brent , David , Kahmi , Tony , and Devin went on a trip to Florida. We found out that it was a island by Florida. Then a disaster started. A huge tsunami was forming and hit florida. We made it out of it in time. The tsunami knocked over a lot of buildings. We made it real far because we were in a helicopter. We saw the whole thing with our own eyes right over top of it. We flew to New York City and got a house to stay. We…

“The Impossible” is a spanish disaster film. It is a touching film which based on an experience of Maria Belon and her family in 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. “The Impossible” set in the year of 2012.It directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and written by Sergio G . Schez . It is all about the family love and the miracle happens in the terrible tsunami. This film had shown that miracle happens everywhere as long as you believe in faith. I like this film because it touched me so much. Henry Benett…

preceded by a number of foreshocks, and hundreds of aftershocks. Japan experienced over 1000 aftershocks since the earthquake has occurred, with 80 being over a magnitude of 6.0 and several over 7.0. Due the earthquake Japan was also struck with a major tsunami that brought a great amount of destruction along the Pacific…

An earthquake of 9.3 magnitudes on the Richter scale erupted in December 26, 2004 on the floor of the Indian Ocean (Shuman, 2015). An Impressive tsunami followed the seism some hours later, and was responsible of massive deaths and missing, property destructions, and environmental issues which extended to fourteen countries in Asia and Africa. The disaster showed the inexistence of emergency programs in most of the affected countries, and thus, these countries were dependent on the international…

A tsunami of emotions asphyxiates me in disorienting turbulence. I don’t want to leave my bed. My feet are cold, no, not in the literal sense, in the figurative sense. Something is amiss. Something is banging around somewhere where there shouldn’t be any banging, at least to my immediate recollection. What to do? Do I desert my bed to hunt down the bangs and their originator(s)? Do I pull the my eiderdown duvet over my head and shimmy from the headboard toward the foot of the bed to make myself…

of the tsunami in 2004, and as a post-disaster humanitarian worker. After more than 10 years, the magnitude of the disaster and the lessons learned from the human efforts is lasting memory for me and every Acehnese. My concern is that if a disaster of similar scale happens again, how ready are we as the "potential victims"? If you who are reading have ever been to Aceh after the tsunami, very undoubtedly you know exactly how severe and complex the impact of the tsunami is. The 2004 tsunami hit…

bring devastating consequences with little people informed or prepared. First of all, Meyer addresses a magnitude-9.0 earthquake on the current coast of Oregon and Washington. On January 26, 1700, the Pachena Bay citizens died from a flood and a tsunami crashed into the east coast of Japan 10 hours later as results from the earthquake. A similar earthquake possibly happening is a widespread theory that many are trying predict. In addition, the article discusses the research and statistics found…

supplies. The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Australian governments sent in civilian and military search and rescue outfits that looked for survivors and locate the deceased. One of these outfits discovered an infant two days after the tsunami, yet another outfit rescued twelve people floating off the eastern shore. To secure the protection of their nationals, numerous governments utilized extraction outfits to retrieve their citizens inhabiting…

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.…