Tsunami warning system

magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami with waves peaking at 17 meters hit Japan on March 11, 2011. Three of the reactors at Fukushima overheated because the cooling systems failed after a tsunami flooded the power station and disabled the reactor cooling system which causing core meltdowns and make reactors impossible to restart . This was compounded by hydrogen gas explosions and released large amounts of radioactive material into the air, and the releases continue to this day. The accident…

1. Introduction In the past years, an increasing number of driving assistance systems have been integrated in vehicles and the task of vehicle driving is automated to an ever greater extent. In an automated vehicle, the driver can switch his/her attention away from driving tasks to non-driving tasks such as reading and texting. However, since the automation technology is not perfect, the capability of automated driving still largely relies on conditions such as the weather and road type, which…

On 11 March 2011, all international news broadcasts were fixated on Japan, for an unfortunate reason; a natural catastrophe that has struck the Tohoku region of Japan without warning. The calamity was instantaneously announced through viral videos, emails, Twitter feeds, social media and live broadcasts on both international and local Japanese news programs, with the global network news reporters clambering through the rubble (Bestor, 2013). This unprecedented natural disaster that has shocked…

supplies. The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Australian governments sent in civilian and military search and rescue outfits that looked for survivors and locate the deceased. One of these outfits discovered an infant two days after the tsunami, yet another outfit rescued twelve people floating off the eastern shore. To secure the protection of their nationals, numerous governments utilized extraction outfits to retrieve their citizens inhabiting…

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…

EES: 1030: 0B06 12/6/17 Toba, the Deadliest Volcano Eruption Around 74,000 years ago during the Quaternary period, the supervolcano known as, Toba, erupted in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Toba is thought to be one of the largest known eruptions the Earth has ever seen. And certainly the largest to erupt during the Quaternary period. Out of the three periods that make up the Cenozoic Era, the Quaternary period is the current and most recent of the three. The eruption of the Toba volcano did not…

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…

On January 17th 1994, at 4:31am, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, killing more than 60, injuring more than 9,000, and causing widespread damage (Taylor, 2014). With the vast amount of damage, loss of life, and injuries it is easy to understand how the local and state responders would have quickly been overwhelmed in their response measures. This is the exact sort of emergency that the Stafford Act was developed for. According to (Hunter, 2009),…

Likely Belongs To World's Oldest Tsunami Victim In 1929, the 6000-year-old human skull was found in a site at Papua New Guinea. New research analysis has now revealed that the ancient skull likely belongs to the oldest tsunami victim in the world, and the catasthrophic event killed that person. Professor James Goff, the first author of the study and a UNSW Sydney scientist, says that the site where the Aitape Skull was found was once covered with flood caused by a tsunami 6000 years ago. That…

The earthquake of 1906 was a horribly destructive and stunning event. It was described by people that were there, some of them described it in books. One of these books in the novel Dragonwings, where a character named Moonshadow feels the ground twist and turn between his feet. There are also articles found that explain the natural phenomena of the terrible earthquake that occurred on April 18, 1906. The name of one remarkable article that gives many facts is called “Web Resource”. Though…