By natural disaster I don’t just mean a hurricane or volcano..ect I mean a specific natural disaster that happened. Also by report I mean an information text.
I already thought of Haiti and the tsunami of japan, any others?
Thanks for the help!
More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more feared dead on Monday after an earthquake struck parts of southeast Turkey, where rescue teams worked through the night to try to free survivors crying for help from under rubble.
Survivors and emergency service workers searched frantically through mounds of smashed concrete and other debris with shovels and their bare hands after the 7.2 magnitude quake toppled buildings and some roads on Sunday.
Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said the quake had killed 120 people in the town and 100 more in the city of Van, some 100 km (60 miles) further south. The toll was expected to rise.
Sahin, who is overseeing emergency operations in Ercis, said 1,090 people had been wounded while hundreds more were unaccounted for.
Rescue efforts were hampered by power outages after the quake brought down power cables to towns and villages across much of the barren Anatolian steppe near the Iranian border.
As dawn broke the scale of devastation was clear.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said there were an unknown number of people unaccounted for under the collapsed buildings of the stricken towns, and he feared the worst for villagers living in outlying rural areas, who had yet to be reached.
“Because the buildings are made of adobe, they are more vulnerable to quakes. I must say that almost all buildings in such villages are destroyed,” Erdogan told a televised news conference in Van on Monday shortly after midnight.
More than 100 aftershocks have jolted the region in the hours since the quake struck for around 25 seconds at 1041 GMT (6:41 a.m. EDT) on Sunday.
U.N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was deeply saddened by the loss of life and devastation. “He expresses his heartfelt sympathies to the government and people of Turkey at this time of loss and suffering,” the United Nations said in a statement.
In Van, a bustling and ancient city on a lake ringed by snow-capped mountains and with a population of one million, cranes shifted rubble off a collapsed six-storey apartment block where bystanders said 70 people were trapped.
Erdogan visited Ercis earlier by helicopter to assess first hand the scale of the disaster. With 55 buildings flattened, including a student dormitory, the level of destruction in Ercis, a town of 100,000, was greater than in Van.
“We don’t know how many people are in the ruins of collapsed buildings, it would be wrong to give a number,” he said.
Newspapers said trauma had been piled on trauma in southeast Turkey. Kurdish militants killed 24 Turkish soldiers in an attack last week in Hakkari, south of Van.
“Homeland of Pain. Yesterday terrorism, today earthquake,” said Radikal newspaper.
The Red Crescent said a team of about 100 expert personnel had arrived at the earthquake zone to coordinate operations. Some 4,000 tents and 11,000 blankets, stoves and food were being distributed to help fight off the cold.
At Van airport, a large Turkish Airlines cargo plane was offloading aid materials, which military vehicles were waiting to transport to the quake zone.
A tent city was being set up at the Ercis sports stadium. Access to the region was made more difficult as the earthquake caused the partial collapse of the main road between Van and Ercis, broadcaster CNN Turk reported.
Soldiers were deployed in Ercis to help rescuers and digging machines had also arrived to help. There was a constant wail of ambulance sirens ferrying the injured to hospitals.
Dogan news agency reported that 24 people were pulled from the rubble alive in the two hours after midnight.
One nurse told CNN Turk news channel the town’s hospital was so badly damaged that staff were treating injured in the garden, and bodies were being left outside the building,
After visiting the quake zone, Erdogan returned to Ankara, where he is expected to chair a cabinet meeting to discuss the response to the disaster.
He said Turkey was able to meet the challenge itself, but thanked countries offering help, including Armenia and Israel, two governments that have strained relations with Ankara.
October 24, 2011
Reuters
The devastating 2004 Indonesian tsunami, with its death toll of as many as 250,000 people, was caused by the first magnitude-9.0 earthquake since 1967. A succession of smaller but still destructive tremors in Haiti, Chile, and New Zealand — surpassed by this year’s magnitude-9.0 quake in Japan — has some researchers wondering whether the number of large earthquakes is on the rise.
The largest earthquake in Japanese records hit the East coast of Japan Friday the 11 of March. The large magnitude of the earthquake (~8.9 Mw), its location offshore of the coast and its depth of 14km, triggered a destructive tsunami with waves up to 10m.
The main peculiarity of this this catastrophic event which has damaged most of the eastern coast of Japan leaving the country in need of foreign aid, is that it was preceded by several fore-shocks of large magnitudes up to 7.1 Mw. Such behaviour was not seen in previous hazardous earthquakes like Chile (9.3 Mw), Haiti (6.2Mw) or New Zealand (7.1 and 6.3 Mw)
For more information on this severe natural catastrophe go to:
An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 has shaken the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan today at 01:23:26 AM local time according to the USGS.
For more scientific and general information about this event please go to the
USGS webpage.
This is not the first large or damaging earthquake which has happened in that zone. Below there is a list of historical earthquakes collected from the International Seismological Centre since 1964.
| Author | Date – Time | Lon | Lat | Depth | Value | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-01-16 09:50:06 | 33.956 | 59.531 | 9.7 | 6.7 | MS | |
| 1979-11-14 02:21:18 | 34.029 | 59.806 | 3.0 | 6.7 | MS | |
| 1979-11-27 17:10:33 | 34.082 | 59.795 | 9.0 | 7.3 | MS | |
| 1979-12-07 09:23:55 | 34.139 | 59.918 | 0.0 | 6.1 | MS | |
| 1993-01-27 10:27:04 | 32.084 | 60.090 | 21.0 | 4.8 | MS | |
| 1994-02-23 08:02:04 | 30.806 | 60.569 | 6.0 | 6.1 | MS | |
| 1994-02-26 02:31:11 | 30.849 | 60.555 | 9.4 | 5.9 | MS | |
| 1997-05-10 07:57:29 | 33.878 | 59.823 | 6.7 | 7.0 | MS | |
| 1997-05-13 11:42:25 | 33.462 | 59.888 | 37.0 | 3.9 | MS | |
| 1997-06-16 03:00:10 | 33.302 | 60.208 | 55.2 | 4.4 | MS | |
| 1997-06-20 12:57:36 | 32.327 | 60.024 | 34.8 | 5.4 | MS | |
| 1998-04-10 15:00:53 | 32.454 | 60.086 | 33.0 | 5.7 | MS | |
| 1999-11-08 21:37:20 | 35.715 | 61.246 | 10.0 | 5.2 | MS | |
| 2001-10-08 01:17:16 | 32.899 | 60.276 | 27.0 | 4.4 | MS | |
| 2003-07-03 14:59:27 | 35.575 | 60.850 | 2.1 | 4.9 | MS | |
| 2004-07-14 14:36:02 | 35.014 | 61.891 | 14.8 | 3.6 | MS |
This is the map of the events shown above
| Global positioning | Afghanistan-Pakistan border |
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FEMA has not doing its job when hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans. However, Wal-Mart become one of the first to be on the scene. Why do you think FEMA should outsource its disaster relief management to private organizations like Wal-Mart?
1.Not all of the aid actually reaches the people. (As in many African countries, the aid enriches the corrupt officials.)
2.Disaster relief shows preference.(haiti vs Pakistan)
3.Disaster relief is ineffective because there are still many man made disasters that threaten the country (such as terrorism)
Are they good? How can i make them sound better??? :O
Im interested in this job, sounds pretty nice, I was wondering if somebody knew the requirements
If you have this job in the Navy, tell me your personal experience, tell me the places you been at
Thank you
The 2010 Canterbury earthquake (also known as the Christchurch earthquake) was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am on 4 September 2010 local time (16:35 3 September UTC)
The quake caused widespread damage and several power outages, particularly in the city of Christchurch. Two residents were seriously injured, one by a collapsing chimney and a second by flying glass. One person died of a heart attack suffered during the quake, although this could not be directly linked to the earthquake. Mass fatalities were avoided partly due to New Zealand’s strict building codes, although this was also aided by the quake occurring during the night when most people were asleep at home
The earthquake’s epicentre was 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Christchurch, near the town of Darfield. The hypocentre was at a shallow depth of 10 km. A foreshock of roughly magnitude 5.8 hit five seconds before the main quake, and strong aftershocks have been reported, up to magnitude 5.4. The initial quake lasted about 40 seconds, and was felt widely across the South Island, and in the North Island as far north as New Plymouth. As the epicentre was on land away from the coast, no tsunami occurred
(from wikipedia)
I want to help people … disaster relief or counsel. I wouldn’t expect money but maybe food and board. Are there any companies, ministries, organizations I can do that with? I am 35 year old office worker and most programs appear to be for young people.
Why do you think nations are being alot less generous to the Pakistan nation with charitable donations compared to the Hati earthquake disaster? The damage caused by Pakistan’s massive flooding is worse than January’s Haiti earthquake.
The economy remains unchanged since Haiti’s earthquake.
We help everybody else out with food, money, rebuilding, aid and other things.
Who helps us out when when we have a natural disaster? Like hurricane katrina, somewhere around 82 billion in damage, thats alot of money.
Who comes to our aid, Now during hurricane earl, who again will help us out?
Why do we rush to aid other countries, but to my knowledge which could be wrong, no other countries rush to help us?
10 pts to best answer.
I need to find three news articles for a school assignment about a natural disaster effecting Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, and have so far found none (despite it being in an area prone to cyclones, bush fires, floods and drought).
In the wake of the outreach for donations from entities such as Yahoo for Pakistan it made me wonder what other countries have donated during our floods in California, the mid west and during times like Katrina or even during the September 11 attacks?
Dates of those incidents if available would be helpful. Thanks.
I’m aware these roles are performed by troops from many different nations, but mainly in terms of the British Army, and especially in terms of soldiers specialising in engineering roles: How are they transferred to peace keeping or disaster relief missions? Do they request it or are they selected? What roles do they usually perform during and after conflicts, earthquakes, floods etc. And finally how long can these transfers last?
i know i mentioned the UN, but i didn’t meant to limit it to that, it was more an Engineers specific question, what roles they play and whether they can volunteer
does the gov. benefit from disaster relief programs that it provides…how?
is a lot of tax taken for this program?
I know that the trees and shrubs are burnt after a fire but what happens to the animals? Also, are there any other disasters?
Canada currently requires that companies operating in the Arctic have to drill relief wells in the same season as the primary well.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13265562.htm
As we’re seeing from the BP Gulf oil disaster, relief wells are the only solution with a high probability of success in the event of a major leak. But they take about 3 months to drill, and add cost to the operation (though I don’t know how much added cost). In other words, the oil wouldn’t be as cheap to extract if a relief well were required.
Given the environmental disaster created by the Gulf oil spill, do you think relief wells should be a requirement for all offshore drilling operations, or would this be an excessive requirement?
for example, when an insect outbreak occurs, forests become more susceptible to forest fires, and if the insects are of the defoliating sort, they can cause trees to die directly. does that make it a natural disaster?
Tell me what you think of the impact that a natural disaster has on society (families,businesses,friends).
What do you think about the U.S. helping out Haiti?
Should other countries help out?
A coworker told me of a top ten list of natural disaster that came on yahoo recently. He described one of the disasters as occurring about 20 or 40 years ago in some central America country like Ecuador where gas had leaked throughout a city and the gas caught on fire and burned many people. I looked all over and couldn’t find any disaster like this in history. Does anybody know of a disaster like this happening?
Was it when we were trying to help other countries fight for their rights? Or maybe it is all the natural disaster relief we have sent to other countries.
How do I prepare my dog for a natural disaster, most likely a tornado. How do I increase my chances of reunited with with her if we where to separated
I live tornado alley and I recent one that did some damage brought me to senses that this can happen
After BCT & AIT, do National Guardsmen do some sort of specific training that would prepare them for natural disasters? Since that is one of it’s missions? Or do the soldiers mostly concentrate on their MOS? Thanks for any info, just wondering.
I am a person who loves helping people. It creates a sense of satisfaction for myself. I would love to travel and help people, such as natural disaster relief, or even financial assistance. Any tips? And serious answers please.
I want to go down and actually help the animals on the coast. Can anyone give me a website for a disaster relief agency that I could join?
When BP CEO Tony Hayward testified before Congress this morning, many expected to hear him apologize for the disaster his company has caused which is destroying the gulf of Mexico and the southern coast of the United States, and may also soon spread to the east coast. Instead, Republican Congressman Joe Barton was the one saying he was sorry — to BP.
In his opening statement, Barton, the top Republican on the committee overseeing the oil spill and its aftermath, delivered a personal apology to the oil giant. He said the billion fund that President Obama directed BP to establish to provide relief to the victims of the oil disaster was a "tragedy in the first proportion." Because, as a typical Republican, he is more interested in representing industry and big oil corporations, not the American people he is supposed to represent.
Other Republicans are echoing his call. Republican Sen. John Cornyn said he "shares" Barton’s concern. Republican Michele Bachmann said that BP shouldn’t agree to be "fleeced." She feels making BP take responsibility to compensate those whose livelihoods have been destroyed by BP is a bad idea. Rush Limbaugh the king of promoting corporate America over its citizens, called it a "bailout." How about that for typical Limbaugh irresponsible and backwards thinking!? The Republican Study Committee, with its 114 members in the House, called it a "shakedown." BP is not eve and American owned company so these Republican are not even taking the side of Americans corporations over American people. They are taking the side of foreign corporations, careless foreign corporations who are destroying our nations coastline at that, over the interests of the American people!
This fund is a major victory for the people of the Gulf. It’s a key step toward making them whole again. BP has a responsibility to those whose lives and livelihoods have been devastated by the disaster. And BP oil executives don’t deserve an apology — the people of the Gulf do.
Now if we can just get the Republican Party to think about the needs of the American people for once and stop BSing us and selling the US out to corporations, foreign or domestic!