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!
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
How cam someone build an earthquake proof school in an area that is occasionally hit by earthquakes (ex: Haiti, Peru, Chile, etc.)
Haiti earthquake is once gain nature’s fury. Does it gotta do anything with global warming?.. and where was the more casualities ever recorded after natural disaster??
So I’m 13 and I’ve tried to edit this ( I’ve tried to put some commas in as well) I’m wondering if it catches your attention it’s supposed to be the beginning of my story but I’m kind of unsure of it. Is it good or bad? By the way if your a very hard core religious person I’d suggest you don’t read this.
“ You don’t know how hard it is! My wives always die!” Satan pouted.
“ So? Is it my fault that you take a fancy to mortal women!” God muttered back.
I stood there stiff, and as still as a statue holding their tray of delicious smelling cakes, and serving them hot, steaming tea.
I wondered if the two ever got tired of bickering. It was always the same nonsense “ You never pay me enough respect.”, “ You forgot to bow when passing by my statue!” or “ The mortals find me more handsomer than you.” A million years, and their bickering never seized.
Every decade the two would meet up for a “friendly” meeting. Discussing how life was, who was there latest wife, and of course how humanity would survive and progress which wasn’t as important as the other subjects. I was just the small angelic maid who stood there, not moving or breathing serving tea.
It wasn’t the best job in fact, I had nothing to brag about however, I was paid pretty well. The only down side was having to stand there and listen to their constant arguing.
“ I never get to have any new prophets or messiahs.” complained Satan.
“ That’s because you don’t need any. Your prophets are too powerful! The last on almost caused the earthquake in Haiti last January!” God explained wearily. “ I’m the one who needs the prophet!”
“ You sicken me the least you could do is grant me the simple wish of giving me a prophet!”
“ In your dreams!”
They were arguing again soon they’d be yelling I thought grimly. Though I was forbidden to speak much or mess with the argument or try to split it up much less.
“ I never wanted to be lord of the dead! I told you all I wanted was to have a huge empire!” He yelled back at God.
“ Oh sorry mister I need it all. You should have taken my offer I presented you to become one of my angels wouldn’t that have been enough for you?” God questioned I could see in his eyes he was losing patience.” Anyways you sinned.” he added a moment later.
“ Oh well I didn’t want to be considered one of the thousands of archangels of yours!”
They began yelling about prophets and, who should really be granted the messiah. I began to lose patience this wasn’t a peaceful meeting this was more like a war meeting.
“ Maybe you should both get a prophet. Twins.” I couldn’t believe it but I found the words easily slipping out of my mouth. The two froze having heard me. Realizing I’d broken one of my rules I nervously stuttered “ S-sorry my lords I meant more tea.”
“ Now that doesn’t sound like an awful idea Abigail” God said he stroked his beard.
“ Sounds pretty good to me.” Satan agreed.
A nervous sigh of relief escaped my lips so I wasn’t going to be terribly punished after all. That was how the birth of Elisabeth and Jason Hope was decided. Two unknowing but powerful messiah’s. I should have felt great but I knew that the fate I’d bestowed on them with that one outspoken comment.
Would forever haunt me.
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.
I had a dream in 2005 about a church falling to pieces, a fire in the distance and people running around in panic. A few days ago I found picture of my dream, aka the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. This has happened to me before, but nothing like this. Anyone else?
I had a dream that i was in a another country were the people there were very poor and the there was a earthquake and the ground was splitting open it felt like the end of the world when i woke up i kept thinking about it the weird part was two days later the news said Haiti had a horrible earthquake. What does it mean to dream about something then it happens? i’ ve had this happen to me a few times it scares me a little.
Im doing A2 geography and my summer homework is a mock exam.. the 70 mark one. Its on Tectonic Hazards, the title is:
”With reference to examples, explain how physical processes control the occurence and magnitude of tectonic hazards. (70)”
If anyone has any reliable sources about case studies such as 2004 Tsumani or Haiti earthquake id be grateful!!
My 15 year old cousin is the typical stubborn type of girl you see on the Maury show on Saturdays , she refuses to listen to anyone and on top of that she hangs out with these ghetto thug gang banging wannabes who talk her in the doing pretty much anything.
Today she came in my room pleading for help ,telling me that she was pregnant and needed money for some type of abortion pill, I’m completely fed up with this crap because I’m 19 and I’m already working 24/7 because of this economy , and the last thing my parents need is some hard headed teen in the house , and trust me she will do this again she’s not even in high school yet so this is only the beginning. How do we go about sending her somewhere? We’ve tried the police before and they were no help at all they only offer 30 day programs at juvenile centers then your child comes back ten times worse ,we’ve sent her to one of these 30 day programs before only to find out she was escaping out from the windows and through a drug test found out she was sniffing coke with one of her friends out on the streets in Miami , She was sent to haiti to live with a relative and of course a couple months later the earthquake hit ,and boarding schools are up to 4,000 a month when my mom can barely pay for the mortgage..
You would think in this economy things wouldn’t be so expensive
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!
It seems like this year has been pretty active, because I’ve seen lots of earthquake reports on the news, like Chilie Haiti, i think turkey, California, etc. I never really heard a lot about earthquake reports last year, so i was wondering if this year is more active than other years, or is this normal?
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?
Is the world coming to an end?
i have noticed that since year 2000, a lot of natural disasters have been occuring and seem to be intensifying as we draw even closer to 2012, i mean just this year alone we have had the earth quake in haiti, the earth quake in chile and the earth quake in turkey, the earthquake in indonesia, not to talk about the massive flood in portugal and the latest earthquake in china. is it just me or does it seem that the closer we get to 2012 the mayan end of the world the worse globally things seem to become. i am starting to think that all of these are signs and that on december 21 2012, that something will go wrong with the hadron collider in 2012 and BANG!, THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN AND BYE BYE WORLD WITH A BANG. just interested what are ur thoughts
pls ans
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AibU0kkCR4PuTvismLFWN.Hsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100611033733AAozENv p
When the earthquake happened in Haiti I traveled there. And did volunteer work, mainly with injured people and in hospitals.
I have some pictures, about a lot of injured people, about a baby being born about bodies in the street, piles of bodies, destruction of homes, etc…. Basically everything that happened there. I h not held back from publishing them and showing them to family and friends in consideration of the people who died.
But tv and the newspaper have showed everything.
Do you think it is ok if I post them let’s say on my facebook.
I understand why so many people die in the Haiti earthquake but why were they so many few deaths compared to Haiti in the Loma Prieta earthquake which also was a similar magnitude (6.9)? What made the Loma Prieta earthquake kill only around 100 people? Was it the buildings, roads, speed of rescue? Any answers would be great.
Thank you very much, building standards. Great, thank you. More answers are welcome, the more the better.
This country has been in a state of virtual collapse since the Duvalier regime and people are only paying attention to the poverty and suffering now…
is this just a publicity stunt for many countries around the world? this smells fishy, as Haiti has been needing rebuilding for quite a while, and that we only offer it now after so many Haitians have died…is preposterous.
so has the Haiti earthquake finally triggered yellowstone?
Will san francisco finally get their overdue earthquake is yellowstone erupts???
Or is it all just building up for a calamity in 2012 XP
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
MAP 2.5 2010/01/18 02:44:16 44.569 -111.011 14.8 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.7 2010/01/18 02:38:02 44.561 -110.973 9.8 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 3.0 2010/01/18 02:30:17 32.109 -115.398 11.2 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.6 2010/01/18 01:04:25 44.562 -110.972 9.0 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 5.8 2010/01/18 01:02:22 46.517 153.239 39.7 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 2010/01/18 00:02:57 44.563 -110.970 11.3 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km Region
MAP 4.8 2010/01/17 23:19:53 55.245 165.174 49.9 KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION
MAP 2.5 2010/01/17 22:43:34 44.565 -110.972 6.5 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 5.3 2010/01/17 22:38:14 -32.047 -177.825 3.4 SOUTH OF THE KERMADEC ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 2010/01/17 21:55:56 44.554 -110.970 0.9 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.7 2010/01/17 21:04:07 44.562 -110.967 9.7 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
actually if they weren’t uncommon
then why are they showing up now for?
the last time they started showing up was
december – January 2008
This website has only had a 1 – 3 all year round since then in yellowstone
but now for some reason it’s acting up again or maybe it’s just some pattern that happens around January
Or does it just appear that way? Is it normal for earthquakes to happen in series like this?
I’ve looked on the USGS site and I can see that earthquakes happen every day but how does this year (and last year) stand up to past years?
I haven’t always been up on world news but now I am very into the news…so I’m not sure if it’s just that I didn’t notice it in the past.
BTW, I know there are other places to ask this but I normally get good activity/answers here. 
I think it is easier to blow this off because there is nothing anyone can do to stop an earthquake or tsunami. I discovered after the earthquake in Haiti (right after the earthquake in Eureka) by looking through the earthquake reports that earthquakes do happen everyday. However, I also feel that this is something that you would have to calculate. The information is there for the public, it’s just a matter of who is willing to sort through it and compare it previous years. I don’t have time to do that because I only have a computer at work.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
I don’t think it’s the end of the world but I do think our Earth is shifting and changing. Those of us who are fortunate to survive this shifting are going to really enjoy the new Earth.
I am not a "gloom and doom" kind of person but I live in SF, it is very realistic that a big one might hit here in the near future. I feel that something is up with the world.
Please, see the times:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010rja6.php
Quake in Haiti: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 21:53:10 UTC
HAARP starts charging up the high atmosphere 48 hours before release time:
http://maestro.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi?date=20100110&Bx=on
10 January 2010 UTC – 16:00
Charge continues through next day:
http://maestro.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi?date=20100111&Bx=on
And on the 12, after 48 hours, atmosphere is fully charged:
http://maestro.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi?date=20100112&Bx=on
10 January 2010 UTC – 16:00
Release time.
Time to arrive to target, 10 Km under ground: 6 hours.
Check the graphs. The activity is high only before surface earthquakes. HAARP cannot cause quakes under 18 Km deep.
Does anyone else see this connection? Montserrat and Haiti are both in the caribbean arc. Montserrat had a major volcanic explosion on the 8th, and 4 days later the major quake in Haiti. Is the volcanic activity a precursor to possible earthquakes? I know one can not possibly predict such things. It’s kind of like the weather. Only theories. Thoughts? Theories? Scientific explanations anyone?
Okay, there have been a lot of earthquakes recently: a small on in Chicago, the one in Haiti, one in Chile, one in Mexico and one near Tibet, and now there’s volcanic activity in Iceland, which is basically a little chunk of land on a fault line. All of the earthquakes except for the 2.5 one in
Chicago have been above 7.0 in magnitude. Does this mean something’s going on with the earth’s crust?
I live in Canada and am greatly troubled by the disaster in Haiti. However, I learned after donating to the 9/11 funds that most of the money never reaches the people and services that need it. Does anyone know of a charity that is not corrupt and that will ensure my money goes to the right places? Thanks!
Brazilian news have been reporting many earthquakes around the globe with emphazis on Haiti, Chile, Taiwan and now Mexico. It wasn’t like that last year or the years before. Is it only the media exploring disasters more fiercily or are we really facing a global catastrophe?
My family and friends have been hit hard because of the 2010 baja california earthquake. The magnitude was greater than the Haiti earthquake. Although the death toll doesnt compare at all, the damage done is unbelievable. Most of my family members live in Ejido Oaxaca, Mexico, which was right next to the Epicenter. I want to setup a website so people can donate money which can be helpful for Food and water. We have had a couple of phone calls to them and they said that the gallon of water has sky rocketed in the local markets to 60 pesos which is about 6 dollars. People dont have this kind of money so they need our help…
so far i have created this blog.
http://2010earthquakerelief.blogspot.com/
but now how do i make it so that people can see it and make a donation?..
Or did the Haiti earthquake getting media attention draw attention to the amount of major earthquakes there are a year?
Or could it be I just recently started reading news stories?
But, even still, has there been this many this often before or is this just kind-of random?
When I try and get information about the Iceland Volcano all the news stations here in America can talk about is money lost in the airlines or with the flower industry, why is it all about money are we that shallow? Why isn’t anyone reporting on how the ppl of Iceland are going to be able to recover or about how the 2nd Volcano is showing signs of erupting also? I’m seeing news articles from other news sources outside the US that paint a diffrent picture. When the earthquake in Haiti happen America broadcast it all day long. Tons of charities set out to help them. But a Volcano is more serious why don’t new media tell more??
Eager to learn More!!
i have noticed that lately we have gotten the haiti earthquake, the chile earthquake, the china one, and not an earthquake but the big iceland volcano just blew. Is it common to get this much activity? and correct me if i missed any earthquakes.
I am worried that im going to catch hell for asking this but I am starting to get scared. For the past few weeks i have been having HORRIBLE dreams and they seem to actually be coming true.
Two weeks ago I had a dream that a child fell into my bed. I woke up and searched for it wanting to make sure it was ok. A normal reaction when you wake up like that right? Well the next night my daughter fell out of her crib and she fell in such a way that the child in my dream fell.
A little bit after that I had a dream that the ground starting to shake and that everything started crashing down around me. A day or two after that the Haiti earthquake happened.
Almost immediately after that I started dreaming about an explosion every night and it would either keep me awake or wake me up. Today when I went to yahoo.com to look at the articles out of boredom, the first picture i saw for the first article listed was about an explosion overseas.
I’m really getting scared, and heres the part that people are really going to make fun of me for =\ I have been having dreams off and on through all of this of a huge catastrophe-like event.
I guess my question is, am i making too much out of nothing? Its all just a coincidence right?
So as we’ve seen so far, there have been many earthquakes recently, haiti, Chile, Baja california, and Now China. So Can this trigger the so called Big One in California? should we be worried, I’ve been getting a lot of fordwards that an 8.4 magnitud earthquake will strike California Within the next 24 hrs.
Please write your comments.
Thank you.