Environmental Psychology Article Analysis Psychology 460 University of Phoenix October 23, 2011 ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY An earthquake so powerful that it knocks the earth off its axis and the coast drops off three feet. A tsunami follows the earthquake leaving tens of thousands of people dead. When watching a live tsunami along the Japanese coast is quite an amazing sight. It was such an extraordinary and dramatic sight to get to witness broadcasting live into the homes across the world. This is an analysis on what is known to be the largest earthquake and biggest tsunami ever to hit Japan on March 11, 2011.
2011 Joplin Tornado Chris Ojugo America public University Disaster Management PHHE 606 Professor.. Bohl Shelh August 31, 2013 2011 Joplin Tornado ABSTACT Joplin, Missouri 2011 Tornado significance, rated F5, highest single tornado, since 1953, Killed 124,people, 9 people rescued, over 1,500 injured and destroyed over 8,000 properties. 24 minute warning time above average of 13 to 14 minute to touched dawn, average population during the day Monday to Friday 270,000,the day of incident Sunday average population of the city 49,000. ("Storm event survey," 2011) Introduction Tornado is a narrow violently rotating column of air that extend the base of a thunderstorm to the ground, among all atmospheric storm from rain, hurricane
At approximately 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906 the city of San Francisco was struck by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake! The main shock occurred offshore about 2 miles out. The earthquake happened along the San Andreas Fault line, and the shock was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles. The earthquake was extremely catastrophic which also resulted in fires. This earthquake is remembered as one of the most destructive natural disasters next to the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and hurricane Katrina of 2005.
The shifting of the earth’s plates in the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004 caused a rupture more than 600 miles long, displacing the seafloor above the rupture by perhaps 10 yards horizontally and several yards vertically. As a result, trillions of tons of rock were moved along hundreds of miles and caused the planet to shudder with the largest magnitude earthquake in 40 years. Within hours of the earthquake, killer waves radiating from the epicentre slammed into the coastline of 11 Indian Ocean countries, damaging countries from east Africa to Thailand. A tsunami is a series of waves, and the first wave may not be the most dangerous. A tsunami “wave train” may come as surges five minutes to an hour apart.
Movement in this fault zone resulted in the great Hanshin earthquake. A 30-50 km long rupture of a strike-slip fault occurred close to and under downtown Kobe. The eruption towards the north ruptured towards Kobe. The earthquake’s shallow depth of 16 km and close proximity to the built-up area meant that buildings and structures were subjected to much ground-shaking and soil liquefaction On Tuesday, January 17th 1995, at 5.46 am (local time), an unexpected earthquake of magnitude 7.2 on the Richter scale struck the Kobe region of south-central Japan, the shallow depth of the focus which was only about 16 kilometres below the surface and the fact that the epicentre occurred close to a very heavily populated area caused a great destruction. Seismic shockwaves travelled from Awaji Island (the epicentre) along the Nojima Fault to the cities of Kobe and Osaka.
The earthquake was particularly devastating because it had a shallow focus. The earthquake had a "strike-slip mechanism." The resulting surface rupture had an average horizontal displacement of about 1.5 meters on the Nojima fault. This fault which runs along the northwest shore of Awaji Island. DEATH TOLL The earthquake caused 5100 deaths, mainly in Kobe.
2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami On Friday, 11 March, 2011, at 2:46PM local time in Japan, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck 45 miles off the east coast of the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku, Japan. The nearest major city to the quake was Sendai, Honshu, Japan, 81 miles away. The earthquake triggered extremely destructive tsunami waves of up to 77 feet that struck Japan minutes after the quake, in some cases traveling up to 6 miles inland, with smaller waves reaching many other countries after several hours. The Japanese National Police Agency has officially confirmed 10,804 deaths, 2,776 injured and 16,244 people missing across eighteen prefectures, as well as over 125,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. Estimates of the Tohoku earthquake's magnitude make it the most powerful known earthquake to have hit Japan, and one of the five most powerful earthquakes in the world overall since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
Dhamar, Yemen: Earthquake Crisis In December, 1982 a disastrous earthquake hit the city of Dahmar, Yemen. The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.0 Mb and resulted in 1,600 deaths and $2 billion in damages to the town (Lohman) . Living in these conditions made it especially hard for the villagers because of their lack of equipment, money, and man-power which forced them to live in ruins after the earthquake occurred. One major problem that caused damaged to the villagers of Dhamar was housing built on rocks and rock outcrops. These buildings were also constructed of rock rather than adobe that are in other parts of the country.
The Eastern Japan quake was caused by a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan at 2.46 p.m on the 11th March 2011 (Friday). The epicenter was 72 kilometers east of the Peninsula of Tohoku at a depth of 32km. The earthquake triggered large destructive Tsunami waves of more than 10 meters that struck Japan quickly and travelled up to 10 km inland. Small Tsunami waves reached other countries as well like Hawaii after few hours. This tragedy has left more than 11,000 people dead with more than 15,000 people missing.
The Health Impacts of Earthquake on Yushu County Yushu County in Qinghai Province was hit by 7.1-earthquake on 14 April 2010.1 The epicentre was located 30km west of the capital town of Yushu County, where 90% of the houses were destroyed.2 The earthquake left 2046 people dead, 12135 injured, and 175 missing.3 Approximately 100 000 people have been evacuated to overcrowded camps, where high risks of communicable diseases such as measles, acute respiratory illnesses, and tuberculosis were developed.4 These people were also threatened with hypothermia and high altitude diseases, resulting from extreme climate and high altitude.5 Thousands of injuries were severed and infected due to destruction of medical facilities and roads, which hindered the arrival of emergency medical staffs and supplies.6 Higher risks to vaccine preventable diseases arose, resulting from cold storage facilities damages.7 Water borne diseases such as diarrhoea escalated from water and sewer system damages.8 The Chinese government raised level 1 health response and urged all efforts in initial response.9 By 15 April, the Ministry of Health deployed 2402 health staff and rescue teams, and sent 6 tons of medical supplies and 235 ambulances.10 Field hospitals were established in neighbouring provinces.11 United Nations worked with the local and national government to provide massive health and nutrition supplies, to provide essential health services to remote areas, and to support vaccination campaigns covering Hepatitis A, tetanus, and MMR, though organizations like WHO and UNICEF.12 Local NGOs formed small coalitions to collectively raise donations for medications.13 Although appropriate measures were done in sending the emergency staff and medical supplies, the government and the above organizations lacked in effective management of the homeless