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Mt. Nyiragongo Eruption of 2002 and It's Short and Long Term Costs

(News Services, 2002). Various charitable organizations have pitched in as well. The World Food Program, for example, has distri...

Papua, New Guinea's Volcanoes

In eleven pages the caldera eruptions of Papua's volcanoes are examined in an overview that also includes such topics as predictor...

Scientific Overview of the Hawaiian Islands

In ten pages this research paper presents a scientific overview of the Hawaiian Islands that includes the topography of its coastl...

Sicily's Mount Etna Volcano

lava have spewed from at least five separate fissures in Mt. Etnas southern flank" (Hundley K1594). There was one particular strea...

Global Changes in Climate and Volcanoes

causes earthquakes and creates open channel-like areas referred to as fissures (Tyson PG). Molten rock, also called magma, moves ...

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...

Earthquake Measurement

the news media is always quick to point out that it was this or that number (i.e. 3.5, 4.0., 5.7, etc.) on the Richter scale. Most...

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 ...

The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

800 rooms and rising an "impressive" seven stories.6 The hotel featured a "central grand court surrounded by tier after tier of co...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

Earthquakes A Catastrophic Emergency

The USGS provides a list of the most destructive earthquakes that have ever been recorded. The most recent earthquakes...

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 ...

Disasters

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

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...

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...

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...

Geology: Earthquakes and Liquefaction

through both solids and liquids, usually at a rate of between "6 and 13 km/sec" (Environmental geology, 2008, p. 7). S-waves are s...

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...

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...

Insurance for Earthquakes

(GAOR, 2005). When this occurs it not only severely hinders rebuilding in the region, but also the lack of available insurance ser...

NJ and Earthquake Preparedness

centered near New York City and had been felt through much of New Jersey (von Hake, 1975). There were also significant earthquakes...

Earthquake Planning and Decision Support Systems

A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...

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...