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    Santorini Myth

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    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…

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    Mount Tambora Volcano

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    The northern coast of Sumbawa Indonesia that in April 1815 exploded in the largest eruption in recorded history. It is now 2,851meters (9,354 feet) high, having lost much of its top in the 1815 eruption. The volcano remains active; smaller eruptions took place in 1880 and 1967, and episodes of increased seismic activity occurred in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Tambora’s catastrophic eruption began on April 5, 1815,. A shattering blast blew the mountains apart on the evening of April 10. The blast…

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    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…

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    Beach Erosion Essay

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    Video 1 – costal erosion Boiol242 Week 3 Sandy beaches are a dynamic system that naturally experiences phases of erosion and accretion. Storm systems producing high energy waves that can rapidly erode sediments, particularly when infrequent or intense. During calmer periods, average swell waves deliver sediment back to the shoreline (beach accretion). Beach accretion is a much slower process than erosion whereby it’d take severl years for a beach to return to its pre – storm condition…

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    Earthquake In Chile

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    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…

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    earthquake was centered 130 km off the shore of Sendai Myagi on the east coast of Honshu Island. Consequentially, the island to move four meters to the east and surrounding coastlines were subsided by up to one meter. The earthquake also created a tsunami reaching as high as 40 meters. At the time of the earthquake, there were 11 nuclear reactors operating in the region. When the earthquake struck, all 11 shut down automatically and available power was used to run the cooling pumps at most of…

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    The convergence of three separate disasters in Fukushima Prefecture – earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis – is not only unique in terms of its scale and complexity, but also about the complicated interaction of health problems to which it may have given rise. The great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake that killed over 6,000 people in 1995 showed that in Japan disasters can affect different population groups with differing severity and that the elderly are especially vulnerable. For many…

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    Earthquake Dbq

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    Earthquakes can be destructive, by destroying houses, killing citizens, and tearing families farther apart. In the Philippines, the 7.2 magnitude earthquake did just this. There were 3,512,281 people affected by this massive earthquake. The disaster happened in 2013, leaving 36,645 houses damaged in the rubble. Most People respond to a natural disaster by gathering materials, spreading the word, and receiving government aid. People respond to a natural disaster by Gathering Resources. After the…

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    Sumerian King Gilgamesh. It is juxtaposed with the Hebrew Bible referencing Noah. The Abrahamic and Babylonian regions have warning stories as well. Other places such as Japan and the Hawaiian Islands have passed down forewarnings and changed their life to face this ominous threat. They tell stories of whole towns and villages swept away overnight. The event is called a tsunami, which means (Killer Wave) in the Japanese language. Unlike your typical overland downslope flow of water, masses…

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    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…

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