When Disaster Strikes

Typically in June, July and August. A rare Geographical cause of flooding is when seawater comes up onto dry land. Giant waves created by earthquakes will consequently overflow the land with water. Another rare case of flooding is dam failure. Cold fronts can bring heavy rainfall to Australia, particularly in winter and spring and can consequently cause flooding. There are many types of floods which include…

part of the solution. That contractor reports that on one job he was called in to look at an air conditioning unit and, while in the house, asked the customer if he'd like him to inspect the heating unit. The homeowner brushed him off but relented when the contractor reminded him that "you can't be too careful." Upon examination, the contractor discovered a "one in 10,000" problem that could have proved disastrous. The pilot light had gone off, and the redundant shut-off valve had failed, so gas…

operator error, which is responsible for many equipment breakdowns. How Business Equipment Insurance Protects You There are a number of ways business equipment insurance protects you including: Covering your business equipment when it is in your office and even when you take some of it, such as a laptop or projector on a business trip or somewhere else. As a tenant you are covered for improvements you make that you can't legally move and take with you. You are even covered for accidental…

“Fukushima radiation nears California coast, judged harmless. The article was published on November 11 2014. In this article, they talked about a couple of different things. One of the topics they talked about was the Fukushima nuclear disaster that occurred in 2011, and how the radioactive contamination has slowly started to approach the coast of California. The radiation levels were looked over by researches and found out that the radiation does not pose a risk to the people…

dust back to home from the mine. His son, Bill, was also diagnosed from X-ray to have asbestosis before the company hired him. However, they hided the truth from him and made him work in the mine for 10 years. People start to recognize the problem when they feels that the symptom of asbestosis was not similar to flu. Therefore, the link between the agent and illness could not be made early enough for the people in Libby because of the lack of communication of…

Neutrinos are one of the most abundant particles in the universe second only to photons, yet they are one of the most elusive particles known to man. The neutrino is essentially a near massless subatomic particle possessing a neutral charge. Neutrinos scarcely interact with normal matter as a consequence of having a neutral charge and a mass of almost zero. There are three flavors of neutrinos: electron, tau, and muon; many neutrinos oscillate between these flavors. Neutrinos can be produced in…

The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011 was one that should have never happened. Looking back, a perfect storm of old technology, damage from the tsunami, and system failures is to blame for the meltdown. Reactors 1-3, ones most affected, rode out the quake without serious damage. It was the tsunamis that fallowed that started the chain reaction. On March 11, 2011 at 2:46pm a 9.0 earthquake hit off shore northeast of Japan, it lasted about 6 minutes. As expected, the 11 reactors at…

there was an adjustment in temperature and a deficiency of wind that confined a deadly mixture of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and metal dust. This toxic mixture ends up remaining in the air for five days. Forlornly, due to this environmental disaster, 20 residents had lost their lives and 7,000 other residents agonized from conditions such as: nausea, vomiting, headaches, abdominal cramps, and choking or coughing on blood. Numerous of firemen had been bearing oxygen tanks in the streets…

Fukushima Nuclear Energy Power Plant Incident Jeff Schinmann Red Lodge Highschool 4/18/16 On Friday March, 11 2011 2:46 PM Japan was hit a by a huge earthquake lasting several minutes which had a magnitude of 9. The earthquake of coarse caused alot of damage but the earthquake also caused a huge tsunami which then hit Japan causing even more damage then the earthquake did. This killed thousands of people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings. The nuclear power plants…

Hurricane Katrina: not only a natural disaster I: Introduction: A. Brief introduction of Hurricane Katrina. This part gives a brief introduction of Hurricane Katrina to provide a basic background information of this event at the very beginning, also to relate this event to the topic of this paper. Hurricane Katrina was one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States, it brought a huge damage to New Orleans, both ecologically and socially. Though it happened naturally,…