Why Are Tsunamis So Dangerous To Humans

The definition of natural disasters is any catastrophic event that is caused by nature or the natural processes of the earth. The severity of a disaster is measured in lives lost, economic loss, and the ability of the population to rebuild. All natural disasters cause loss in some way. Fields saturated in salt water after tsunamis take years to grow crops again. Homes destroyed by floods, hurricanes, cyclones, landslides and avalanches, a volcanic eruption, or an earthquake are often beyond repair or take a lot of time to become livable again.

The first recorded earthquake was on March 8th, 1735 near Beth. Another one on February 21st, 1774 this one was quite noticeable speaking there were some reports from Winston Salem through Virginia.

Could you imagine if you lost everything you have ever worked for your whole life? After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck, many people lost everything they had. Over 3,000 people were left dead with a crashing economy, a city full of complete devastation, and years that it would take to try and rebuild the city. Even though the later effects of the earthquake brought people together, the immediate effects broke families apart. The reason is because so many people lost family members and friends. One of the only positive outcomes that arose after the earthquake was the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition being held in San Francisco. This event brought remembrance to the incident,

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. In Haiti, 80% of the populations were under the poverty line and on January 12, 2010, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti (Amadeo, 2016) and more than fifty-nine aftershocks that followed. This natural disaster had a devastating effect on Haiti economy. Government and people around the world made donations and pledges of aid to Haiti. (History, 2017) About 230,000 people were killed due to the earthquake, and more than 300,000 people injured. The earthquake created $7.8 billion to $8.5 billion in damages, 106,000 people were left without homes and 188,383 homes damaged. About eighty percent of schools damaged or destroyed. (Amadeo, 2016)

The book we read for our March book was The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. The book starts right after the first wave had started. They had already made it to earth and by they, I mean The Others, aliens. When news of The others reached the people of Earth, they thought it would be a good thing that we would live in peace with each other. The others destroyed the people, they had one goal when they reached Earth, eliminate the human race. The first wave hardly killed anyone, but it killed all technology, electricity, and only a half a million people. The second wave caused not so natural, natural disasters. Metal rods were dropped from the top of Earth's atmosphere which caused tsunami waves and earthquakes. These wiped out many coastal cities, where

When destruction strikes many newspapers and try their best to cover it. This paper looks at how local newspapers will cover a story that happening in it’s area compared to how a newspaper with more national coverage will cover the same story. Thus, newspapers with different target audiences will cover the same event in different ways.

In New Orleans Louisiana, a city built below sea level on the coast of Louisiana. During this event there were 134,000 houses damaged or destroyed in New Orleans alone. (There are not even 19,000 houses in Mifflin county) that 's a lot of houses destroyed by a hurricane. During this hurricane there were more than 1,000,000 displaced residents that 's one twelfth of Pennsylvania’s population. the flooding alone from this hurricane was anywhere from 1 foot to 10 feet deep depending on where you were in the city but 10 feet is almost as tall as a house. That is a lot of water. The craziest is the 135 billion dollars in damage that 's a lot of money for a hurricane to cause the most out of any hurricane actually (plyer, 2015). This drastic event also caused the death of 986 Louisiana residents that 's over half of the deaths caused by all of hurricane Katrina. There was an estimated 1833 people killed by the whole hurricane. Out of those people that died 40 percent of them died from drowning, 25 percent of people died from trauma, 11 percent of the people died of heart conditions and the other 24 percent died of other or unknown causes. The impact this hurricane had on families was crazy. After this hurricane, the population of New Orleans went down by 254,502 people that 's a decrease of over half of the city 's total population. Throughout the whole hurricane over 6000 homes were

In North Carolina many of us have been effected in some way by tornados, hurricanes, and maybe even an earthquake, but I would bet that none of us have been effected by the worse natural disaster the tsunami.

The area in Canada that is more likely to be affected by a major earthquake (megathrust) is the coast of British Columbia. In addition to the coast of British Columbia, the St. Lawrence, Ottawa River Valleys, and a few areas in the northern territories are likely to have earthquakes. The area British Columbia is in danger because the border is along the mark where the Pacific, the Juan de Fuca and the North America join. The earthquake occurs when the 3 plates rub against each other. The Juan de Fuca plate is shifting east under the North America plate, a few centimeters each year. According to John Claque, the motion is curling the edge of the North America plate upwards, much the same way a rug would buckle if you pushed on one edge. This creates a major strain on the fault line until eventually, the north America plate "elastically bounces back", causing the mega thrust and creating the tsunami".

Haiti is considered the poorest and the most densely populated country in the western hemisphere. Because of its topography Haiti is susceptible to soil erosion. Over several years Haiti has faced, high population growth, prominent poverty, significant food scarcities along and alimentary challenges. While rapid population growth has dropped, natural catastrophes, political and societal havoc’s have led to the country’s intense rise in poverty. January 12 2010 an immense magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti with an epicenter about 15 miles west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Over 300,000 people were killed and some 1.5 million left to live on the streets. The earthquake was measured to be the worst this region had seen in over 200 years. After

It’s 5 o’clock in the afternoon. The 1989 World Series is about to start. The TV goes to static. Houses come crashing down. Dust is everywhere around the wreckage. Smoke is flooding the streets. Downed fire hydrants spray into what 's left of a parking garage. All of this damage was caused by an earthquake. Earthquakes affect not only the Earth, but people and the property on it.

Tsunami is defined as a high long wave caused by an earthquake, volcano or a meteor and waves that spot grow larger and larger. How it builds up? Before a tsunami the earthquake happens and the waves grow up to one hundred feet tall. During the tsunami, the waves hit shallow waters and destroy anything in its way. After a tsunami, a large wall of water follows behind it and takes many objects with it back to the ocean.

After the disaster most people’s homes were destroyed and there were almost 100 people who evacuated to evacuation centers. (DocC) There was also a total of 22,816 families that had evacuated to nearby evacuation centers. (DocD) “Some of our close relatives like Uncle Carlto and Aunt Ronie have evacuated to safer grounds like Tagbilaran city.” (DocB) Most people when something like that happens evacuate to evacuation centers, but if the storm or whatever is happening is major then they would evacuate to other cities and wait for it to be over. If it is an earthquake they would not have a good chance at evacuating because the rods and sidewalk would be falling

The earthquake of 2010 was a 7.0 on the Richter Scale. This large earthquake caused the death of 230,000 people. This was due to poor building structure and little warning. There were too many bodies to move and so few people who were capable of moving them (due to injuries) that the bodies would just be piled up on roads and in city squares. As a result of the earthquake, a total of 10,000 children were left orphaned. This added to the already existing 380,000 orphans in group homes and orphanages.

The Tohoku Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake recorded to have hit Japan. The earthquake was a magnitude 9.0 off the coasts of Japan that occurred at 2:46pm on Friday 11 March 2011, which triggered a powerful tsunami that reached the height up to 10.4 meters. A Japanese National Police Agency reported 15,889 deaths, 6,152 injured, and 2,601 people missing, 127,290 buildings totally collapse, 272,788 buildings half collapse, and another 747,989 buildings partially damaged. The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami caused severe structural damage in northeastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads, railways and dams, not to mention fires in many areas. It was the toughest and the most difficult crisis in Japan after the World War 2 leaving