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Earthquake, Tsunami, Japan 2011

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

The Japan Earthquake - Disaster Response Review

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at disaster response tactics. The 2011 Japan earthquake is examined as an example. Pape...

Need for Earthquake Preparedness

This research paper presents an overview of earthquake preparedness and the factors that of which nurses should be knowledgable. F...

The Impact of Nursing, Earthquake,

This research paper focuses on nursing care in regards to earthquake victims. The writer reviews relevant recent literature in re...

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

The Chilean earthquake's energy was 512 times that in Haiti yet Chile experienced a fraction of casualties and devastation. Why? T...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. Earthquake Activity

The Northern East coast has also experienced various earthquakes throughout the centuries. The New England area has experienced ma...

Effects and Hazards of Earthquakes

to be the most damaging waves due to the fact that "buildings are more easily damaged from horizontal motion than from vertical mo...

Emergency Response and the Haitian Earthquake

On January 12, 2010 Haiti was shaken by one of the most devastating earthquakes of history. Because it hit in the most populated ...

The Sichuan Earthquake and The Economy

the massive quake, more than 34,000 were declared dead and some of those were rescue workers (Ho, 2008). That was an early count. ...

Geological Disasters and Human Habitation

regard to changes in drainage patterns from building. However, even without specific knowledge of floodplains, it is possible to ...

Chile's Natural Hazards

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

Words of Light a Lasting Memorial to the Wreckage of the Hibernia Bank

capturing for all to see one moment in time that shall never change in the viewer (or readers) mind? To liken Cadavas words to th...

Statistics On Natural Disasters: China

throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...

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 ...

California's Emergency Response Plan

would be called OES or the Office of Emergency Services ("Californias Emergency Response Plan," 2003). OES is an office that helps...

Why California Won’t Fall into the Ocean

the "plate boundary" between these two (Louis and Anderson, 2001). Because the earth is still cooling, it is still releasing its i...

Natural Disasters

atmosphere and at the same time, it releases drier and cooler air into the atmosphere (The American National Red Cross, 2001). The...

Disasters

quake it was estimated that at least 400 people had died. The conditions were relatively dire as almost freezing temperatures at n...

Senegal's Offer to Help Haiti

It was in January of 2010 that an earthquake struck Haiti, an event that killed close to 200 thousand residents ("Haitians on way ...

Use of Social Media during Disasters: Article Critique

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of an article focused on the use of social media and the earthquake in Japan in 2011. This pap...