Essay on Tsunami

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…

plates which is the case of Japan. The tsunami is an earthquake under water but because of the pressure the water will move really fast and it the wave will increasingly become higher as the sea floor's depth decrease. A tsunami wave is extremely powerful and nothing can stop it.A tsunami is more There is not only one wave in a tsunami but a series of big wave ant the first one is never the highest or the strongest. It goes really fast and most of the tsunami occurred in the fire-ring in the…

This happens to be the case for the Indian Ocean Earthquake of 2004. The December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by an earthquake that is thought to have had the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs (DoSomething.org Staff, 2015). This is one of the many reasons that this particular case is interesting. The damage to society did not necessarily…

earthquake. Once the earthquake began a series of chain reactions occurred that had drastic impacts across the ocean. Land was displaced, homes submerged under water, and tidal waves as high as 100m were created. With no warning systems for earthquakes or tsunamis of any kind in the area, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and more will feel these lasting effects. This will go down in history as one of the worst acts of mother nature in the last 100 years. The Sumatra earthquake occurred between the…

relates to actual history and real life, and gives you a sense of how bad life was after the tsunami struck and how fatal it was. The 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…

did the earthquake damage 93% of the Chile’s population with no power, it generated a tsunami that hit the coastline of Chile, approximately 30 minutes after the earthquake happened. (sheltercasestudies) The after struck of the…

The initial explosion decimated the Santorini islands, and the collapse of the caldera (along with the explosion of the island) created a massive tsunami, which reached the Eastern Mediterranean shorelines and easily overtook many surrounding islands and coastlines, including Crete. The estimated wave height was 35 to 150 meters, and it has been deduced that 60 cubic km of materials were spewed from…

From Los Angeles to Beijing, natural disasters can happen in even the most remote places in the world. Natural disasters do not just destroy land, they also cause economic distress and make life more problematic. With many different names, what we know as hurricanes, occur all over the world. Some call them typhoons or tropical cyclones, just to name a few. An average hurricane can be around six hundred miles across, with strong winds spiraling inward at speeds of seventy-five to two hundred…

pm, an Earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 struck causing tremendous damage to the northern section of Japan. This earthquake that happened in the ocean triggered a series of giant tsunami waves to also strike the northern section. Japan's northern coast lays on the Pacific Ocean, which is greatly known for its tsunamis and its earthquakes. The plant at Fukushima first opened in 1971 and consists of six separate boiling water reactors. It was one of the fifteen largest nuclear power plants in…

A 10 meter tsunami hit which was the after effect of the earthquake. The tsunami towered as high as four-stories with the speed of 805 km per hour which swept away everything in its path leaving 450,000 people homeless. In similar fashion, the earthquake in the Philippines was intensive and destructive. It left eight dead and 202 people injured. The earthquake destroyed buildings, took out the power and left 101 aftershock, but did not start a tsunami. 3,257 houses were damaged,…