Indian Ocean

Out of the 1,006,619 square miles of protected area nationally, 132.8 square miles is home to one of the most fascinating dunes in the world. Being made a national monument in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover, The Great Sand Dunes in Colorado was recognized as a national park in 2004. It was made a national monument in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover. It is home to many species of animals and plants, such as the American pikas and Entaphalleas. Through the breaking apart and movement of…

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…

The thought of standing directly above thousands of kilometers of rock and magma in motion is quite unsettling. But, the anxiety quickly fades because we realize there is nothing to fear in Iowa when it comes to volcanos. 1630 B.C. Santorini, Greece, however, is a completely different story. Not only was the Santorini eruption one of the biggest in Earth’s history, but it quite literally changed the face of the earth and created the infamous myth of Atlantis. Santorini is volcanic small island…

The collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct in 1989 was a disaster caused by an earthquake. On October 17, 1989 an earth quake occurred around the Santa Cruz bay area. The Cypress Street Viaduct was the first double-decker viaduct in California and it was made in 1955 – 1957 and it cost 100 million dollars. On October 17, 1989, the southern portion of the structure collapsed during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, due to ground movement and structural flaws. When in use, the upper and lower tier…

Disaster can be defined as a sudden event such as flooding’s, road accidents or natural catastrophe that cause loss of life or great damage. Earthquake is the seismic event where the earth surface shakes.On 16th September 2015 an 8.4 Richter scale hit Chilean city of Coquimbo. Where two hundred boats were destroyed and thirteen people died, the 8.4 Richter scale earthquake was the strongest earthquake to hit Chile this year. Another earthquake hit .while another earthquake hit central Nepal on…

1). Tsunamis can also be referred to as seismic sea waves. Two tsunamis occur per year around the world, and one very destructive one every 15 years, on average (Department of Homeland Security, n.d.). One specific tsunami happened in the Pacific Ocean near Chile on September 16, 2015. A tsunami can cause massive damage, wreak havoc, and ruin anything it gets near. Some do not know that tsunamis have many causes, not just earthquakes. Normally, though, it will be an earthquake, landslide, or…

The Blacktip Reef Shark is native to the tropical coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Blacktip is listed under kingdom animalia, phylum chordata, class Chondrichthyes, order Carcharhiniformes, family Carcharhinidae, and genus Carcharhinus. This shark was given its name based off of the blacktip at the end of its dorsal fin. This fin appears very vivid in the shark’s youth, but fades with age. The Blacktip Reef Shark will most likely grow to be 4.9 feet and weigh roughly 40 pounds,…

“The last judgment is here, cried Candide” (Norton, p.425) this is what he said when the earthquake of Lisbon hit. What we can see from this statement is how easily influenced Candide is, all it took was an earthquake and already it is the end of the world. Now granted this is an earthquake that has devastating potential, but we don’t see any other character making a statement like this. Also, Candide's major error is that he never seems to develop his own thoughts and feelings about life…