Essay on Tsunami

ruptured, thus causing the epicenter of the quake to be 12.4 miles north of Prince William Sound, 78 miles east of Anchorage, and 64 miles west of Valdez. The focus actually occurred at a depth of 15.5 miles. These shifts in the ocean floor created a tsunamis that measured an incredible height of 220 feet. Finally, a vertical displacement of up to 38 feet was created that affected approximately 100,000 miles of Alaska. Following this event, three scientists from the US Geological Survey…

The size of the tsunami was roughly two times larger than what the plant was designed to handle. The crippled reactors melted, resulting in the largest nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Land within 20 kilometers of Daiichi is now uninhabitable, and water contaminated with…

horrible to her mom, but she didn’t appreciate her mom and she was taken away by the tsunami. For survival, you want to stay strong and you will survive. There has been over the last several days, as the death count from the earthquake and tsunami has steadily climbed to more than 100,000. “They’re all dead. All of them, dead,” the sailor stated, apparently this is showing that everyone that was close to the tsunami and was killed instantly. It picked up cars and swept them hundreds of yards…

Differences Between Natural and Manmade Hazards Hazards exist everywhere and all the time. Hazards come in many forms and sizes and affects people in different ways. The two categories of hazards are natural and manmade. Natural hazards occur everywhere but based on the geographic location, single or multiple hazards can occur at once. Natural hazards branches into three categories and they are atmospheric, hydrologic, and geologic. Manmade hazards or also known as technological hazards…

Nuclear power plants cracks can be caused by natural events such as earthquakes, tsunamis and tornados. Radiation can reduce the number of lymph nodes in your body, and can kill nerve cells. As well as cause disfigured growth to any life on earth. After the Fukushima Daiichi power was cracked by the massive earthquake and tsunamis in March 2011, scientist found that organisms were disfigured. It affected species from rice to birds. In some insects and animals…

On March 11, 2011, a disaster took place in Fukushima, Japan. A magnitude of 9.0, an earthquake struck Tohoku, which resulted in a Tsunami. Due to a chain of disasters on this day, the Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima had a malfunction. This is not the first time something like this so drastic happened in Japan. Chernobyl, the disaster in 1986 was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. Although, Fukushima following the Chernobyl disaster was not as deadly, it not only affected people…

magnitude of 9.0, has done tremendous damage to the northern part of Japan, especially in the prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate. The earthquake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station located in the Pacific Ocean coast received huge damage by the earthquake and tsunami. The piping facility in the building, the facilities for the external power supply and backup power were destroyed. The next day, 12th in the early…

earthquake. Fires are often started closely following an earthquake. Tsunami is another hazard of earthquakes. They are giant ocean waves that can rapidly travel across oceans. Earthquakes that occur beneath sea level and along coastal areas can generate tsunami, which can cause thousands of miles away on the other side of the world. Flooding is a hazard that may occur due to rupture of human made dams and levees, due to tsunami, and as a result of ground subsidence after an…

in their train. They can disrupt and pollute and poison; they can darken skies and cause devastating changes in the weather; they can and do bring about the abrupt end to the existence of entire populations of animals and people. Earthquakes and tsunamis have never been known to cause extinctions; but volcanoes and asteroid collisions have done so repeatedly – and since the earth is today still peppered with scores of thousands of volcanoes ever yearning to erupt, they and the dramatic…

It was 2001 and just days after a massive tsunami swept the country of Indonesia, killing thousands and leaving thousands homeless without food by any means of communication with the outside world. Shortly after the word had gone out Richard Lewis an everyday author decided to take a trip over to the city of Aceh where the tsunami had hit the hardest. What he saw blew him away, he was speechless all the destruction around him demolished buildings flooded streets, and dead people everywhere he…