Millions of People Shaken Up Boom! Crash! Sound echo everywhere. People scream all around you. A deadly 7.1 magnitude earthquake has just hit your town. On October 14, 2013 this happened in the Philippines (B-Essay). There were 3,512,281 affected individuals and 36,645 houses damaged (Doc. D). 39 roads and 18 bridges were in disrepair (Doc. D). People respond in certain ways after a natural disaster. They band together and react with Red Cross and government, Evacuation centers, and Gathering supplies. Imagine trying to rebuild after a natural disaster with no charity’s or government to help. Red Cross and government play an essential role in reacting and rebuilding after a natural disaster. The government has given 100,000 family food packs to quake zones (Doc. C). Red cross has provided the affected individuals with blankets, water containers, personal hygiene items, mosquito nets, and tarpaulins (Doc. A). Red Cross is helping rebuild the victim’s homes (Doc. A). Red Cross is giving household supplies and rebuilding homes while the government is giving food. With the total amount of funding from charities and government, they can help people’s basic needs. Charities and governments working together will get these cities running well again. …show more content…
They bring families to camps and provide food, water, and shelter. Following the earthquake, 22,816 families were put into evacuation centers (Doc. D) There are 93 evacuation sites with people in them (Doc. D). Overall, there was 344,000 people in evacuation centers (Doc. D). Without evacuation centers, cities would become overcrowded. They would lose food and water fast and chaos would break out. Without as much people there is more food for people who are still in the city. The people at the evacuation center get food and water too. More people brought are brought to evacuation centers every
New Madrid earthquake of 1811-1812 was known to be “one of the most powerful earthquake felt throughout the Eastern United State”(2,75) . “December 16, 1811 at 2 a.m”(1). , the first earthquake had struck in the Northern part of Arkansas through Missouri. “This earthquake occurred in Central Mississippi Valley”(2,2) . New Madrid fault is located in the northern part of Missouri and southern part of Illinois. On the morning of December 16, 1811, when the earthquake struck; “people were scared”(10,26) , they ran out of their houses as the trees were falling onto the ground and the ground was breaking up. After the earthquake ended, around 7 a.m., one of the largest aftershock occurred and it was known to be a destructive shock because
Hazards pose risk to everyone. Our acceptance of the risks associated with hazards dictates where and how we live. As humans, we accept a certain amount of risk when choosing to live our daily lives. From time to time, a hazard becomes an emergent situation. Tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes along the Gulf Coast or earthquakes in California are all hazards that residents in those regions accept and live with. This paper will examine one hazard that caused a disaster requiring a response from emergency management personnel. Specifically, the hazard more closely examined here is an earthquake. With the recent twenty year anniversary covered by many media outlets, the January 17, 1994, Northridge, California earthquake to date is the most expensive earthquake in American history.
Earthquakes can cause significant damage to building via waves of energy that propagate from the epicenter. The waves cause the ground to move, which can create structural failure of buildings, resulting in collapse or partial failure. Although the waves cause significant damage, what happens to the structure after the earthquake? A common theme from the 1906 California earthquake was fire. Two images in the text with descriptions, explained that the building had partially withstood the quake, only to burn down later.
The DHS came up with a comprehensive team to mitigate the effects of the hurricane Irma. In fact, the entire operations proved that family effort is necessary in the event of calamities. The DHS cannot have experts in all aspects of a disaster, thus other federal agencies and departments as well as volunteering organizations can help a great deal to save lives during
Earthquake is the earth tremor that results from the sudden release of the pent-up energy in the earth’s crust. This released energy creates the seismic waves that determine the frequency, type and size of the earthquakes. Any earthquakes whose magnitude is bellow 5 on the Richter scale is considered weak, while the earthquakes whose magnitude is above 7on the Richter scale is considered potentially dangerous. The largest earthquake ever register in the history of man is the earthquake in Japan in 2011 which had a magnitude of 9.0 on the Mercalli scale(Seeram, pars. 4-5). While most earthquakes are causes by seismic events on the earth’s crust, these can be accelerated by natural events, or the activities of the human beings. For example, when the geological faults lines rapture, pressure is created in the earth’s crust forcing its way out thereby causing a break or sliding along the fault line. Volcanic activities are also known to cause earthquakes and so are nuclear test, bombs and landslides. The hypocenter is the initial point from which the raptures occur, while the epicenters is the ground directly above the hypocenter (Zacharias,, sec. A)
As we all know, the economic development, the proportion of pollution, ecological imbalance, war, and terrorism is rising up, so disaster can happen wherever, by people or nature. These disasters can wreck millions of lives. In order to save the lives of these people the Red Cross is taking action. This can be seen in many ways, like International Services. This means that the Red Cross provides assistance to those in need globally. The American Red Cross will work together with local Red Cross chapters to help and give the best support to as many people as they can. Also the Red Cross, “[invests] in disaster preparedness [which] makes communities less vulnerable.” For example, they help prevent measles by vaccinating children against the virus. The Red Cross also educates people on matters of international humanitarian law. They also “are reconnecting families separated by international war and disaster.” This shows the humanitarian spirit and it is a good way to heal the souls of those affected by the
This isn't likely to happen on the East Coast, but it could. This is an aerial view of damage to Sukuiso, Japan, a week after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area in March, 2011.
Strike-slip or the transcurrent fault is when two lands are sliding past each other horizontally, with little to no vertical
The need to be trained in trauma response appears to be greater today than any previous time in history. Since the 21st century, traumatic events, due to natural disasters have been occurring more frequently. Vivid memories remain of the terrors of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunamis; 2005 Hurricane Katrina; and in the Caribbean- the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. It is believed that we are likely to experience more devastating natural disasters especially in light of global warming, population growth and increase land usage (Riebeek, 2005; Charvériat, 2000). To provide a framework for discussion, a definition of natural disaster, in simple terms, is provided as “a natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life” (Oxford Dictionaries, 2014). Jamaica’s Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (hereafter referred to as ODPEM) refers to a natural disaster as “rare or extreme events in the environment that can adversely affect human life, property or our way of life; the impact exceeds a community’s or a nation’s capacity to respond to them” (2008). According to Child (1995), any conceptualization of the term natural disaster must include people as no hazard exists apart from the human response to it. Child (1995) further states that “the study of environmental hazards is an examination of the complex interactions between physical and human systems”. The focus of this paper is to examine the trauma related functions of this human response, how they impact individuals as well as societies with a close examination of the Caribbean context.
...tragedy is unique and the suffering that it can cause on each individual may vary from person to person. But without the help of government and the dedicated professionals like social workers it will be extremely hard to implement prevention and to guide the needy to obtain the resources needed during difficult situations. Natural disasters are part of nature. Unfortunately, these natural occurrences have catastrophic consequences such as death, injuries, and psychosocial and political impacts. Luckily, there are program that help individuals with the aftermath, like FEMA. Individuals struggling with physical and social issues, depend not only on their families and support from their various communities, but also on the guidelines of agencies and programs of the federal, state, local or court level to maintain and improve their quality of life (Jansson, 2012).
The role in a disaster event is to protect their people from it. Neighbours, families, relatives are the people who are the first one to provide quick help in relief and rescue. The role of community in preparedness is as important as the involvement of government in disaster management. Community helps in building trust and confidence among the residents by involving them in various participatory and decision making activities during disaster preparedness. Local volunteers and representative groups from the community help in the training and preparing people in educating them to react properly during a disaster event to help themselves and their people. Preparedness means a lot of difference in saving lives and property. Community role in disaster mitigation is to make contingency plans, providing basic infrastructure services needed during disaster and in the recovery
Disasters and emergencies can happen anywhere, at any time (Pellegrin, 2012). A disaster is a term describing a whole range of distress situations, both individual and communal. These include fires and drowning, earthquake and tornado, epidemics and starvation, heat and cold, rats and locusts (Kumar, 2000). While the Malaysian National Security Council (MNSC) Directive 20 (2003) defines disaster as “an emergency situation of some complexity that will cause the loss of lives, damage property and the environment, and hamper local social and economic activities” (Ibrahim and Fakhru’l-Razi, 2006).
Due to the unpredictable nature of sudden earthquakes, humans are often caught by surprise. The issue is even more pressing as researches highlight a direct link between disaster risk and vulnerability within vulnerable local communities in developing countries (Dixit, et al., 2013; Uprety and Yoshida, 2009). This was evident in the cases of the Haiti Earthquake in 2010 and the Gujarat Earthquake in 2006. Geologically crushed between the Indian and the Tibetan plateaus, Kathmandu stands at the highest risk of earthquake (GHI, 2001; IDRL, 2011). Rapid urbanization, increasing urban growth rate at 6%, haphazard construction, lack of land use plan and building code implementation, lack of emergency facilities and policy implementation further exacerbate the vulnerability (Bhattarai, 1999; JICA, 2002). According to NDR (2011), an earthquake of magnitude greater than 8 occurs in Kathmandu in every 75 years. The 1934 earthquake took 8,500 lives, destroyed 20% buildings along with significant damages to cultural and critical infrastructures. According to an estimation by NSET (2002), in case of an earthquake of similar magnitude in the present context, Kathmandu would experience 100,000 deaths, 300,000 injuries, the displacement of over a million residents along with higher chances of liquefaction. Thus, as the main hub for trade, commerce, education and administration, any future large earthquake in the capital city is likely to cause serious effects to its citizens if the country fails to make adequate preparedness in advance.
A disaster is an abrupt, tragic occurrence that extremely disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that go beyond the community’s or society’s capability to manage with its own resources. However, it often caused by nature, or human origins (IFRC, 2015). Disaster happens in several ways such as floods, explosions, wind, and extreme range of environmental temperatures, fire, epidemics, multiple car crashes with many casualties, school shootings, and environmental contamination from chemical agents and/or bioterrorism (Maurer, 2013). The need for awareness of emergency preparedness to the American s and other nations’ community is very important.
Disaster management has become a hot issue in urban development and human security since threats from hazards and vulnerability are increasing, and have caused the damage from natural disasters to become more severe, and it has become crucial to lower the socio-economic loss. “Disaster,” is defined as a serious disruption to the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and having an impact which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources (UNISDR, 2009). “Hazards,” are defined as a dangerous phenomenon, substance, human activity or condition that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, loss of livelihood and services, social and economic disruption, or environmental damage (UNISDR, 2009). In 2005, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) established a model for disaster management called the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). This framework was determined to be the baseline of disaster management, and community involvement towards disaster management, thus it became a crucial aspect of tackling threats from disasters and hazards in the peaceful time of the non-disaster phase. The Hyogo Framework for Action stated that approaches such as increasing capacities of community members in disaster preparedness, adaptive behaviors to reducing risks, knowledge transfer from disaster stakeholders, and concern from the next generations are primary tasks to apply on the community level as Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM). To achieve successful disaster management on the local level, external organizations such as the government, non-profit organizations (NPOs)...