Tsunami warning system

natural disasters. An earthquake is a sudden and violent shaking of the ground. They are a big threat to people because they cause tsunamis, fires, and buildings to crumble on people. One of the biggest earthquakes was the great Chilean earthquake. The quake happened on May 22, 1960 near Valdiva (geology.com). The damage that the great Chilean earthquake caused (including tsunami damage) cost more than 500 million U.S. dollars (NOAA.gov). After this earthquake happened there were initially 717…

Mount Saint Helens Devastates the State of Washington The 1980 Eruption of Mount Saint Helens was a moment to remember in history. The eruption of Mt St. Helens was devastating. The damage done costed lots of money. The eruption was huge and blew lots of ashes into the air and forest. Many people and animals died. The skies remained dark for days. It is by far the most destructive and violent volcano recorded in North America (Bagley). Mount St. Helens had been dormant for as long as we can…

Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines: Impacts and Human Actions The stratovolcano Mount Pinatubo began showing signs of erupting on the 15th of July 1991. Through a series of events Mt. Pinatubo erupted and effected the surrounding areas. Throughout this paper will be discussed the impacts, including primary and secondary, along with impacts changed by humans. Mount Pinatubo eruption was the second largest eruption in the 20th century, making it have many impacts not only locally but globally. Mount…

The effect on panda after the 512 earthquake in Wenchuan,China Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca）is one of the world's most endangered species, that unique and rarely exist in China. The Earthquake that took place in 2008 Wenchuan, China, cause of huge damage to the ecosystem, which breaks down the environment that Panda live in and harm the living habitat of the panda. On May 12, 2018, an 8.0 degree earthquake took place in Wenchuan, China. The quake damage thousands of lives. Through the…

As massive as the ocean is, seemingly incomparable in power to any other natural force, it dwindled in authority this evening. At the command of a deep, hearty, quaking thunder, a powerful concussion I felt through my legs milliseconds before the deafening roar commanded the attention of every beach goer in attendance that evening. The puffy white, cumulus clouds that formed giant pillows in the clear, sapphire blue skies, seemed to flee to find shelter, moving out hastily to provide space…

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,…

were plate alignments found underwater that resembled the earthquake and tsunami that happened in Japan. Researchers found that close to the plates surfaces were conditions that could trigger an earthquake and build a destructive tsunami. Researchers are able to look into how Alaska might be prone to the damage that occurred in Japan. Therefore, scientists used a survey to detect data resulting from an earthquake or tsunami. Three features were found in this survey. The first feature is the…

On March 11, 2011 Japan was rattled by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. When the tsunami hit Sendai, Japan thousands of lives were changed forever. The tsunami claimed thousands of lives, destroyed thousands of homes, businesses, and roads and left behind an excessive amount of debris. The impact of the tsunami also caused a major power outage which in turn caused a major nuclear meltdown/explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. With the devastation of that day and the days…

One of the most common way the ocean is used to destroy life as an antagonist is in the form of waves. Sometimes realistic, sometimes overly dramatized, waves batter, flip, and destroy the surroundings of protagonists in many films. In Martin Scorsese’s Silence, two men are tied to crucifixes offshore and slowly battered to death by light blue waves. In Castaway, the ocean waves trap the protagonist Chuck Noland on a deserted island on which he fails to escape for three years. In The Poseidon…

recorded in Japan and one of the four most powerful in the world since 1900 when record keeping began. It created forces five hundred times stronger than the 2010 magnitude 7 earthquake that devastated Haiti. The Tōhoku quake initiated a massive tsunami that battered and inundated coastal villages along 500 km of coastline and in some areas inflicted destruction as far as 5 km inland. The island of Honshū was displaced 2.4 m east by the…