Tsunami

middle of the Pacific Ocean it resulted with horrible tsunamis hitting the coast of Chile, Hawaii and Japan. This earthquake was enough to leave people homeless and dead. The destruction cost millions of dollars. Lastly, the seismic motion from the shaking of the earth caused huge landslides across Chile. One effect this earthquake had on, was people. First, 2 million people were left homeless, their homes were destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami so they had nowhere to stay. Then people…

Rogue waves and tsunamis are two strong forces that occur in the ocean. The way they form and their features are alike and different in many ways. Rogue waves and tsunamis both form in the ocean but form in different ways. Tsunamis can form in multiple ways. In source 2 it says, Tsunamis can form from earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides on the ocean floor. Large meteorites can cause tsunamis when they hit the water. When tsunamis hit shallow water its acts as a ramp pushing the water up…

The Boxing Day tsunami was a tragic event. Occurring December 24, 2004 an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 released a huge vibration that lasted 10 minutes; causing the Indian Ocean to draw back. Boxing Day defined by Dictionary.com, is, “(in Britain) the first weekday after Christmas, when Christmas gifts or boxes are given to employees, letter carriers, etc.” Though it was supposed to be an exciting day in places like Thailand and India it soon changed into a nightmare. With more than…

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…

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 blow their knowledge. Five year later, at…

Earthquake, took place on the offshore of Bio-Bio Chile with a magnitude of 8.8 (“Aftershocks of Chilean Earthquake”). Even with all the damage and destruction caused by the earthquake, the offshore of Bio-Bio, Chile was in for more destruction by the tsunami that shortly followed Maule Earthquake. As a result, Chile was impacted by the earthquake politically, economically socially and geographically. At the time of the Earthquake, Chile’s President, Michelle Bachelet, as well as the government,…

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…

higher ground as fast as I could without any of my belongings (University of Hawaii at Hilo, 2018). Once, we get to higher ground I would search for an area that has a solid foundation with barriers that could be placed in-between my family and the tsunami that may be materializing offshore. Lastly, I would try to gather supplies and seek emergency information from a variety of sources if possible. As a young child, I was caught in a rip current off the coast of Florida. It was not a very…

other, it also caused a Atlantic Ocean tsunami (Robert Siegel). And about a half hour after the earthquake, the water was being pulled, where all the survivors were, but what was horrifying is that the portuguese people didn't know what was happening or what was going to happen, merchants who had heard about this occurrence were shouting at the families to run but the parents and children were too busy admiring the seafloor where what was happening this tsunami smashed into the Iberian…

Owing to the “Grey Tsunami” happened in UK throughout the decades, which is mainly characterised by the remarkable change in human age structure and the increased proportion of the aged population, ageing-related studies have been extensively conducted and gained a lot of interests to investigate the factors that affect the human health trajectories. Ageing process was once described as “an unsolved problem in biology” by Medawar, but nowadays, collectively data from various sources proved that…