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

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Obviously not your opinion on the actual floods – i don’t think anybody can disagree that it was a horrible tragedy for many innocent people.

No, I mean more about how the other nations have reacted. One thing I have noticed is that, while more people have been affected (not killed, affected) than the Haiti earthquake, it has received less coverage. Where is Pakistan’s charity single?

I ask this because I am writing a guest post on a friends blog about the recent disaster. I’m interested in other people’s opinion.

So, why do you think that Pakistan has received less coverage than other disasters?

I, like many people, believe that it has its roots in racism. Whilst many people have not been brave enough to mention this factor, I think it is there. Where I come from, anybody with brown skin is automatically labelled a ‘Paki’ – even if they are Indian, nobody cares enough to differentiate. (I am a British White Male, by the way).

I was speaking to somebody the other day about this, and his reply actually shocked me. He said ‘Well, its not like we’re going to run out of them, is it?’.

I also read about a group with terrorist (al-Qaeda) connections, giving out aid in the poorest regions, do you believe this will spur terrorism on? I personally believe that in five, ten years, the young children of rural Pakistan are going to remember who it was that helped them when they needed it the most.

So, what do YOU personally believe, what are YOUR thoughts on the whole situation?

And finally, do you think the world is falling apart?
@Harley Drive – interesting! Although, they could have double that population, it wouldn’t matter. The rural population are poor, and their crops have been destroyed. Many areas of Pakistan are unreachable due to the floods now, so its very difficult for the government to help. Nice answer though, to the point. Thanks!

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i’ve been seeing oil spills, major earth quakes, and even floods. i was seeing that there are a bunch of volunteers going over and what not but i want to know how i can do that myself. any tips?

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I have a project and I must include the following:
-natural disasters
*earthquakes
*floods
*hurricanes
*volcanoes
*tsunamis
*mud slides
*wild fires
*and so forth

I must have a good bit of natural disasters.. I also have to have as much detail as possible.
Detail must include: the event its self, and the impact on the land and people.

I also need pictures. As much as possible.

I have to give a 3-5 minutes presentation, so details are nice.
Not tooo many but you get my point.
If you can give me websites too that would be great!
I also need this before the end of the day… cause I have to finish putting this on notecards and a poster and practice talking about it by the end of the day… so yeah.
thank you but i still need more than just floods…
blizzerd?
maybe avolanch?
i cant spell but yeah..

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I have never heard a story about Canada being in a big storm or anything like that… The US has Katrina and lots of tornados in Texas, hurricanese and floods, everything.. what about Canada?

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I’m having some trouble w/ direct, and indirect objects [grammar]. Could you help me? Can you explain it to me in an easy way to understand?

Some questions:
Identify if the bold faced word as Direct Object [DO], Indirect Objects [IO], or none [N

1. A hurricane is a powerful, swirling storm (storm is boldfaced)
2. Meteoroligists watched a big storm carefully (storm)
3. Newscasters gave their listeners warnings about the hurricane.(listeners)
4. The hurricane struck land in the morning. (land)
5. The hurricane winds swirled around the eye of the storm. (storm)
6. The hurrican caused huge waves. (waves)
7. The waves produced widespread floods. (floods)
8. The floodwaters destroyed many people’s property. (property)
9. Television newscasts showed their audiences pics of the storm. (audiences)
10. Volunteers sent the hurricane victims emergency supplies. (victims)

Thanks, if you don’t want to answer the q’s, s’ok, but pleaseee explain it to me clearly.

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natives said it would happen and begin with the economic trouble and the failure of banks and stock markets, then business going away to other countries, floods, tornadoe, earthquakes and strong winds ice rains in the summer. Volcanic activity increasies. no more real estate, people will start moving away or die, weird plane accidents and train accidents. its coming. I spoke with sanalphon last night who appeared as a liion and told me to tell you all it was too late especially for America.

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What has the potential of producing a tornado with little or no advanced tornado warning?
A. Severe thunderstorms
B. Hurricanes
C. Earthquakes
D. Floods

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With all the earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and floods going on around the world as of late is this just the buildup to 2012? Is it the beginning of the apocalypse?

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Tornado warning is for midnight
We are getting a Tornado warning for New York. I live in Jamaica, Queens. I see thunderstorms coming. My children are seeing television and I am on the computer. How does it struck, all of a sudden or it sends winds as warning then we have time to run to the basement.
Depending who is closer will get hit first.
The tornado turned and all we had was a thunderstorm warning and floods. Thanks!

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its for a school project i need to make a book write , stick , draw anything just about earthquakes and floods
please help

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Do you see the signs? The End is coming soon my friends!?
Look at the evidence! Even an Atheist can’t deny it!

Ongoing floods (washed-out bridge pictured) in the United States affect six states and claim at least 26 lives.
Greece declares a state of emergency as forest fires kill dozens.

Tropical cyclones: Hurricane Dean passes south of Jamaica and makes landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula, while Typhoon Sepat moves across Taiwan and makes a second landfall in Fujian, forcing the evacuation of nearly one million people in southeastern China.

The heaviest rainfall in 40 years causes massive flooding in North Korea that kills 200 and destroys 11% of the country’s rice and corn fields.

An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru, killing more than 500 and flattening more than 85,000 buildings.

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Look at the evidence! Even an Atheist can’t deny it!

Ongoing floods (washed-out bridge pictured) in the United States affect six states and claim at least 26 lives.
Greece declares a state of emergency as forest fires kill dozens.

Tropical cyclones: Hurricane Dean passes south of Jamaica and makes landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula, while Typhoon Sepat moves across Taiwan and makes a second landfall in Fujian, forcing the evacuation of nearly one million people in southeastern China.

The heaviest rainfall in 40 years causes massive flooding in North Korea that kills 200 and destroys 11% of the country’s rice and corn fields.

An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru, killing more than 500 and flattening more than 85,000 buildings.
A Glorious day is coming!

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natural disasters like earthquake…floods…etc…..if not un then maybe some other organization..!

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I need websites that have information and pictures on natural disasters that happened from December 2006 until basically today January 18,2006. The Natural Disasters can be floods, tsunamis,earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. Thank you and if you have no good sugestions, or ae jsut fooling atound dont even bother to answer the question.

Thank you

Katerin ♥

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From the Time’s Magazine | Katrina: One Year Later
Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Earthquakes … Why We Don’t Prepare
"Every July the country’s leading disaster scientists and emergency planners gather in Boulder, CO, for an invitation-only workshop. 440 people obsessed with the tragic and the safe, people who get excited about earthquake "shake maps" and righteous about flood insurance. It’s a spirited but wonky crowd that is growing more melancholy every year. After 9/11, the people at the Boulder conference decried the nation’s myopic focus on terrorism. They lamented the decline of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). And they warned to the point of cliché that a major hurricane would destroy New Orleans. It was a convention of prophets without any disciples…"
"The real challenge in the U.S. today is not predicting catastrophes. That we can do. The challenge that apparently lies beyond our grasp is to prepare for them." (Times Mag. Aug 20th to read more)
Times Magazine on CNN.com August 20th

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Bad tornadoes, Hurricanes, Katrina, bad Floods, bad fires.
Has it ever been this worse?
Some crazy pastors use to say that people were given disaster by God?
Others were praying disaster struck the DNC convention?
Does any reasonable person really believe in all these crazy charlatans who brand themselves pastors?

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Unlike most apparently intractable problems, which have a tendency to go away when examined closely and analytically, the climate change predicament just seems to get bigger and scarier the more we learn about it.

Now we discover that not only are the oceans and the atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms, floods and ever-climbing sea levels, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too.

Looking back to other periods in our planet’s history when the climate was swinging about wildly, most notably during the last ice age, it appears that far more than the weather was affected. The solid earth also became restless, with an increase in volcanic activity, earthquakes, giant submarine landslides and tsunamis. At the rate climate change is accelerating, there is every prospect that we will see a similar response from the planet, heralding not just a warmer future but also a fiery one.

Several times in the past couple of million years the ice left its polar fastnesses
and headed towards the equator, covering much of the world’s continents in ice sheets over a kilometre thick, and sucking water from the oceans in order to do so. As a consequence, at times when the ice was most dominant, global sea levels were as much as 130m lower than they are today; sufficient to expose land bridges between the UK and the continent and Alaska and Russia.

Each time the ice retreated, sea levels shot up again, sometimes at rates as high as several metres a century. In the mid 1990s, as part of a study funded by the European Union, we discovered that in the Mediterranean region there was a close correlation between how quickly sea levels went up and down during the last ice age and the level of explosive activity at volcanoes in Italy and Greece.

The link was most obvious following the retreat of the glaciers around 18,000 years ago, after which sea levels jumped back up to where they are today, triggering a 300% increase in explosive volcanic activity in the Mediterranean in doing so. Further evidence for a flurry of volcanic action at this time comes from cores extracted from deep within the Greenland ice sheet, which yield increased numbers of volcanic dust and sulphate layers from eruptions across the northern hemisphere, if not the entire planet.

Read the full content……

But how can rising sea levels cause volcanoes to erupt? The answer lies in the enormous mass of the water pouring into the ocean basins from the retreating ice sheets. The addition of over a hundred metres depth of water to the continental margins and marine island chains, where over 60% of the world’s active volcanoes reside, seems to be sufficient to load and bend the underlying crust.

This in turn squeezes out any magma that happens to be hanging around waiting for an excuse to erupt. It may well be that a much smaller rise can trigger an eruption if a volcano is critically poised and ready to blow.

Eruptions of Pavlof volcano in Alaska, for example, tend to occur during the winter months when, for meteorological reasons, the regional sea level is barely 30cm (12in) higher than during the summer. If other volcanic systems are similarly sensitive then we could be faced with an escalating burst of volcanic activity as anthropogenic climate change drives sea levels ever upwards.

Notwithstanding the recent prediction by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that sea levels in 2100 will be a measly 18-59cm (7-23in) higher, Jim Hansen – eminent climate scientist and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies – warns that we could see a one to two metre rise this century and several more in the next. Other climate scientists too, forecast substantially greater rises than the IPCC, whose prediction excludes any consideration of future changes in polar ice sheet behaviour. A worst-case scenario could see a return to conditions that prevailed around 14,000 years ago, when sea levels rose 13.5 metres (44ft) – the height of a three-storey house – in the space of about 300 years.

Such a dramatic rise in coming centuries would clearly spell catastrophe for our civilisation, with low-lying regions across the planet vanishing rapidly beneath the waves. Just a one metre (3.28ft) rise would threaten one third of the world’s agricultural land, two metres (6.56ft) would make the Thames flood barrier redundant and four metres (13.12ft) would drown the city of Miami, leaving it 37 miles (60km) off the US coast.

As sea levels climb higher so a response from the world’s volcanoes becomes ever more likely, and perhaps not just from volcanoes. Loading of the continental margins could activate faults, triggering increased numbers of earthquakes, which in turn could spawn giant submarine landslides. Such a scenario is believed to account for the gigantic Storegga Slide, which sloughed off the Norwegian coast around 8,000 years ago, sending a tsunami more than 20 metres (66ft) high in places across the Shetland Isles and onto the east coast of Scotland. Should Greenland be released from its icy carapace, the underlying crust will start to bob back up, causing earthquakes well capable of shaking off the huge piles of glacial sediment that have accumulated around its margins and sending tsunamis across the North Atlantic.

The Earth is responding as a single, integrated system to climate change driven by human activities. Global warming is not just a matter of warmer weather, more floods or stronger hurricanes, but is also a wake-up call to Terra Firma. It may be no coincidence that one outcome of increased volcanic activity is likely to be a period of falling temperatures, as a veil of volcanic dust and gas reduces the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface. Maybe the Earth is trying to tell us something. It really would be worth listening before it is too late.

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Because that time is almost here. Earthquakes, famines, floods, hurricanes, fires, tornados, and much more. If your house is not in
order, you had better get right. What do you think ? Best answer
wins.
Ooooohhh. Look at the crowd we have
here today. My, my. You must love me.
HOTBOI. Zodiac Man is just a name.
I told you before the reason for it. So it
shall forever remain……….

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A) Tornados
B) Earthquakes
C) Hurricanes
D) Floods
E) Tsunamis

Criteria: Most pollutants from destroyed buildings, automobiles, and land-use structures, size of disaster, volume of disaster types, in a single calendar year.
4 strikeouts so far, the answer is included in the choices.

The pollution from what is destroyed, not the cause of the disaster.

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natural disasters like earthquake…floods…etc…..if not un then maybe some other organization..!

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I just got off the phone with someone residing in Austin.
She seemed like she was pretty much oblivious to the fact that Texas does indeed have earthquakes. Apparently she and her other coworkers think Texas is somehow immune to earthquakes and they just happen elsewhere.

I seen some show on TV relating to weather patterns by state.
Texas has the most prolific weather patterns, just because it is a BIG state. Earthquakes, Floods, Fires, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, etc. The most extreme weather than any other state.

Anybody who still does not believe Earthquakes happen in Texas can read the following.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/texas/history.php

I just hope others that live in Austin are not as oblivious to that fact.
The question about what the ideal place to live was asked. There really is none. You take the good with the bad.
Even though you may never experience a devastating weather pattern in your area, doesn’t mean you are immune to them.

It is a gamble. Who really knows when where or if something will actaully happen?
There are certain risks that can be avoided, but other risks get magnified.

(You don’t live next to the ocean. Therefor, the odds are you won’t experience a hurricane. But the odds of something else happening i.e. tornadoe increases.)

You just have to take your chances and hope for the best.
That’s really all you can do.
You could live next to a volcano for a few hundered years. It might not blow, but all that matters is when it actually does go off.

Yeah, so people never actually feel it. That doesn’t mean it will never happen. It has in the past and is fact.

Just because it doesn’t happen often enough to cause massive damage, doesn’t mean it is not true.

I know there are other things more important to worry about than earthquakes in Texas.

I am just stating that they do happen.

People who say it is not possible fall into
a category called complacency.

Nowhere is perfect.
How can people say it is all a matter of perspective?

Is the USGS some sort of elaborate hoax and that they really don’t know what they are talking about?

Texas is just some sort of stable state that never has earthquakes and is immune to earthquakes? It only feels the effect of some other state and is quickly dissipated?

I know you are giving your input, but dang, just say yes. They do have earthquakes.
The recorded history is not enough to make headline news. Yet.

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Is that a longstanding geological pattern? Is China an earthquake zone?
It seems that they get smacked with enormous floods and earthquakes quite frequently…a couple of times a year it seems.

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Where were you and what happened?By natural disasters I mean hurricanes, tornadoes, avalanches, floods, landslides,earthquakes,etc.
What was it like and how did you survive.Share your story.

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Examples i want to know are tsunami,twister,floods,earthquake and other natural disaster I want to know every information about it as possible.

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personally, i’m a little worried about all these natural disasters lately. the hurricane, the eathquakes, the floods, the droughts, the mine tragedies around the world. whats going on out there?

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this movie about a tidal wave that hits a boat.it floods and very few people survive.a group of 6 or 7 people all try to get to as many life boats as there are. but along the way some drown. wat is the name of this movie?? all i know is that it starts with a v.

P.S. it not titanic!

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Lots of news coverage yesterday on the third anniversary of Katrina hitting N’Awlins. Why don’t we mark the anniversary of every natural disaster that has befallen Americans. What about Hurricane Andrew? All of the California brush fires over the years? Floods in the Pacific Northwest? Can anyone explain this to me?

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What are the major natural disaster of Vietnam for example such as hurricanes,tsunami, earthquakes, tornados, floods, fire and etc? Basically what Natural disasters hit Vietnam?

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