Category: Disaster

Introduction This memorandum is about an overview of the chemical pollution incident caused by a train derailment in Ohio alongside possible remedies to combat the pollution resulting from such accidents. The Ohio disaster served as a stark reminder of the environmental, health, and economic risks associated with train derailments. As a result, prompt action is…

Table of Contents Introduction Chernobyl disaster Fukushima nuclear disaster Similarities and differences between the nuclear disasters Worldwide media response to the disasters Conclusion References Introduction Both Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters were nuclear crises that occurred accidentally in Japan and Ukraine respectively. The Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant while the Chernobyl…

Summary Earthquakes are sudden and unprecedented movements of the earths surface that are caused by the abrupt release of energy into the earths crust. The accumulation of this energy and its subsequent release causes seismic waves that lead to dislodgement of underground rocks, causing faults along which earthquakes take place the point from which an…

The past can be treated as an important source of information about the way systems will respond in the future. Still, it cannot be considered a perfect source since it is impossible that a situation will occur again with every single little detail. Nevertheless, it will be logical to believe that lessons should be learned…

Introduction An earthquake is a tremor in the earths crust that results in seismic waves as a result of the sudden energy realized from the bowels of the earth. Earthquakes are most likely to occur in regions where the earths crust is experiencing any form of strain. The areas which are normally prone to earthquakes…

The 1928 St. Francis dam disaster in Los Angeles, California is one of the most devastating man made failures in the history of the United States. It came down in the history of the state as the second greatest loss of life with the first one being the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The dam was…

I volunteer at a local library during my free time. Several pitfalls might be encountered in disaster planning for such an organization. First, the planners assume that only those who work in the library can take action in case of an emergency and fail to involve the local community. This is an erroneous assumption because,…

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept through the city of New Orleans (Lachlan & Spence, 2007). The hurricane caused extensive losses in the Gulf Coast region. In the aftermath of the damage, thousands of residents were left homeless. As the victims escaped from the region to safer grounds, millions of Americans watched agonizing images…

The onset of a disaster prompts the nation or region affected to depend on the emergency response team. Various types of disasters usually are grouped into two different main categories, which are natural disasters and man-made disasters (Jackson et al., 2004). Naturally occurring disasters are physical phenomena caused by geophysical, climate changes, hydrology, biological, and…

Describe observations that tell us the Cascadia subduction zone has (a) had large earthquakes in the past and (b) is building towards an earthquake. The measurements of the Earths crust movements show that a strain is building up beneath Oregon. The geologists proved that large-scale earthquakes occurred in the Cascadia area every 244 years (Oregon…