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Natural Disaster Essay

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Abstract— Preventing the disaster before it occurs and alerting the people in prone area is today’s major need .The mostly occurred natural disaster in India are landslide and flash flood in the mountain area like Uttarakhanda. The use of Disaster monitoring and alarming system is to save human lives as well as to inform the ministry within the fraction of seconds about disaster and to provide the rescue team in prone area. It takes 4 stages like landslide detection, upstream downstream counting, ring alarm and sms sending. The problem of disaster monitoring techniques is they are used to detect only one disaster at the time. If any other disaster occurred at that time people are unaware about the fact. The aim of this paper is to learn about …show more content…

The landslide was caused by heavy rainfall that had begun the previous day, with the Malin village receiving 10.8 cm (4 in) of rain on 29 July and the downpour continuing throughout the following day. The environmental destruction that resulted in the landslide is believed to have had more than one cause. Another cause cited as contributing to the landslide was deforestation in the area. One reason was changing agricultural practices which contributed to instability of the hills. Also the construction of the nearby Dimbhe Dam ten years ago was considered as a possible reason. The instability of the hillsides was due to the construction activities, which are often done without careful analysis of environmental consequences.

However, impact of disasters such as landslide and flash flood can be reduced by effective Disaster Monitoring System and timely dissemination of Disaster warnings to citizens. This paper explores the proposed Disaster Monitoring and Alarming Systems for Mountain Foothills, and also describes the limitations and advantages of such a system.

II. PROPOSED SYSTEM BLOCK …show more content…

2012 Wireless Sensor Network for Landslide Detection 1.Maneesha V. Ramesh
2.Sangeeth Kumar
3. P. Venkat Rangan Using Wireless Sensor Network for Landslide Detection.
2011 A Wireless Sensor Network for Weather and Disaster Alarm Systems 1.Cholatip Yawut 2.Sathapath Kilaso Developing devices and tools to manage, display and alert the weather/disaster
Warnings using the advantages of a wireless sensor network system in mesh topology.

IV.Conclusions
The paper reviews different methods for disaster monitoring. After reviewing different techniques it is observed that no single technique can monitor all the disasters and there is no alerting system for the villagers in mountain and foothills area. So, designing system which will monitor the landslide as well as flash flood in mountain area and alerting the people by using alarming system and sms sending system will contribute to prevent human, economical and social

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