Disaster

stay in tune with what is trending now. Change is essential in organizations that aspire to prosper in an uncertain, volatile, complex, and ambiguous environment. The Challenger and Columbia Shuttle Disasters Two events that demonstrate the importance of managing change is the Challenger disaster of 1986 and the Columbia…

Preventive Measures in the 2011 Japanese Earthquake Disaster Summary The 2011 Japanese earthquake followed by the triggered tsunami and nuclear disaster caused severe damage to the country. The three major events cost billions of dollars of damage and the earthquake, rated 9 on the moment magnitude scale, is the largest to ever hit Japan and the fourth largest in the world; more than 10,000 of its people lost their lives. For such an earthquake and tsunami prone country, it was a devastating…

Bhopal India Gas Tragedy, one is Asian financial Crisis, and the other is Fed’s stock crash in 1987. These three cases had some similarities, all of which had some potential perils ahead of the disasters. For example, Union Carbide India Limited had significant problems in safety management before the disaster. The Thailand government didn’t have robust foreign exchange reserves before the financial crisis. For the federal government, the development speed of the real economy couldn’t catch up…

code of ethics. They violated many parts of the code in particular part 2(i) which states that the engineer must view the publics well being as of the highest importance. So all of the factors above and more resulted in one of the worst engineering disasters that has ever taken place and all of these factors could have been prevented with wright mind…

The radiation is present from the origin of the universe, about 20 billion years ago, since intervened in the Big Bang: Big Bang. So that the radioactivity existed on our planet long before the appearance of life on it, every living organism contains traces of radioactive substances. But less than a century that mankind discovered this phenomenon by scientists like Henri Becquerel, Wilhelm Roentgen and Marie and Pierre Curie and others. In 1945 we can say that tragically began the "Nuclear Age"…

Tsunami Many natural and manmade disasters happen every year. Some minor, others life changing. The life changing experiences have quite literally changed these people's lives. One of these many natural disasters had this effects on people… this was the 2011 tsunami in Japan. An earthquake in the area caused a hurricane to start. This hurricane quickly destroyed the cities in it’s way and killed 20,000 people in the process. The disaster had many effects on the people who were there firsthand…

Power Plant. The burst released a radioactive wave that was 400 times more concentrated than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. To this day, those from the towns nearby and the surrounding area are suffering from the horrible after effects of the horrible disaster. Below are a few facts you might not have known about Chernobyl. 1. The explosion was caused by one of four reactors Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had 6 reactors on site, but only 4 were completed. The 4th reactor was two years old and, on…

The means of protection intended to provide prevention of the progression of severe accidents and mitigation of their consequences, were not able to restore reactor cooling and to maintain integrity of the containment. Functioning of all of the disaster containment components was predicated on available electrical power, an energy source almost certain to be compromised during a flooding event. The plant was built close to sea level and protection against flooding hazards was not sufficient, as…

Disaster Recovery Plan Wichita State Shockerthon is a company focused on creating awareness and support by raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network. Shockerthon uses a database to store many of our clients personal medical information, donor emails, and supporter credit card/debit card information. It is important that Shockerthon creates a plan of action incase the information system is threatened. These threats could arise from natural disasters, security breaches or a virus. Although…

When natural disasters are referenced in pop culture, they rarely carry a connotation other than chaos and catastrophe. As soon as someone hears the term “natural disaster”, his mind quickly jumps to an impactful event that somehow represents sorrow, loss, and disorder. These connotative words are especially helpful to musicians who are struggling to find a universal, relatable way to communicate the feelings and emotions in their lives. For this reason, despite the fact that there have been…