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Tsunami of December 2004 and Its Economic Consequences

a member country on their list. The tsunami affected many poor regions that relied on tourism. Some of these nations are consider...

Tsunami: The Physics and Possible Prevention

combat future threats is to study the phenomenon. NOAA and FEMA got together to create a possible scenario to examine the potentia...

A Fable

before. When she was 17 and he was 20, he asked her to marry him. Thrilled, she said yes. But there was another man in the househ...

Dangers of Teenage Drinking

in the first place. Another argument, alluded to in the beginning, involves the body. The student could take the following...

Adolescents and Drug Addiction

a beautiful young lady...There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin" (The Agon...

The Controversy of Air Bag Safety

In a paper containing six pages the viewpoints discussing air bag dangers and alternative perspectives that these alleged dangers ...

The Phenomenon of the Tsunami

in harbours. Scientists dislike the term tidal wave as used by the Press but there is a little logic in the term - some tsunamis ...

News Stories on the 2004 Tsunami

have been amazing stories of survival by people caught unaware. But there have also been horrible stories of people swept up by th...

Avoiding Most Devastating Tsunami Effects

island of Sumatra" (Tsunami Quakes Force Revised Higher). A scientist on duty at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawa...

Overview of the Tsunami Phenomena

bottom of the sea. When meteor impacts are involved the same type of energy release occurs but it occurs at the ocean surface and...

Chile's Natural Hazards

In eight pages this paper discusses volcanoes, floods, and earthquake tsunami as they relate to the Chilean geography. Six source...

Tourism in Phuket: The Global Impact

to the area of Phuket in southern Thailand. Unfortunately, many contemporary factors seem to be impacting that level of tourism to...

An Exploration of Tsunamis

caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...

Catastrophic Tsunami of 2004

be taken care of, and so, the economic effects were only temporary. The post-tsunami relief effort had included attention to commu...

The C.R.E.S.T. Warning System

al, 2002). It also aims to reduce the number of false tsunami warnings given by providing information to the warning centers that ...

Meteorology

(vertical levels, horizontal grid spacing, and temporal), computational domain (what values go in the equations), and coordinate s...

Cause and Effect Used to Justify More Helicopter Services to a Pacific Island Prone to Natural Disasters

days, whereas for a flood or tsunami their may not be a warning at all. The immediate effects of a disaster can be mixed. If there...

Recovery in Japan after the Earthquake, Tsunami of 3/11

This paper focuses on the recovery efforts that followed the earthquake and tsunami that hit the east coast of Japan on March 11, ...

Three Disasters at a Time

In March, 2011, Japan suffered a massive earthquake, a massive tsunami, and a nuclear accident. No country has ever experienced su...

Earthquake, Tsunami, Japan 2011

This research paper relates many of the problems encountered by Japanese officials who are addressing reconstruction after the de...

Social Vulnerability and Ache

had its epicentre off Sunmatas west coast, between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia, 30 km below sea level and had a magnitude 9.3 ...

Keeping the Fetus Healthy

This essay explores the dangers of drugs, smoking, and drinking alcoholic beverages during pregnancy. There are five sources liste...

The Tremendous Value of Coral Reefs and the Threats They Must Withstand

This paper emphasizes the danger that mankind presents in regard to our impacts on our world’s coral reefs. Even seeming simple va...

Rescue Workers and Mitigating Dangers

In a paper of three pages, the writer looked at dangers facing rescue workers. A case study reinforces the importance of standard ...

Do Not Text and Drive

This research paper offers a comprehensive overview of discussion of the dangers of texting and driving. Six pages in length, six ...

The Dangers of "Ordinary Construction"

fires to "spread into concealed spaces" running either horizontally or vertically (Dunn). The largest concealed space in an ordin...

The Relevance of Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul

home, while none of the reporters dispatched there have produced anything resembling a definitive account of the countrys trajecto...

New Developments in Dental Radiology

of water or other molecules within the cell" (Waites 30). While high doses of radiation can cause serious damage, dental radiation...

Workplace Risks

revolve around the types of materials that have been stored in them. Obviously, materials such as gasoline, kerosene, paint and d...

Nursing While Impaired

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...