The Impact Of Natural Disaster On Society

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During the last years, there has been an increase in the reports of natural disasters. Natural disaster come in many forms such as earthquakes, tornados, floods, blizzards, hurricane fire, and volcanic eruptions and it can affect thousands of people in the world. Natural disaster can be foreseen with the aid of advance technology, but overall, nature’s wonders occur unexpectedly, and the majority of the people don’t know what to do or what to expect before, during or even after the disaster Firstly, the most direct and immediate impact of a natural disaster on a society is the loss of human life. Let start with the Mediterranean island of Stroggli was completely wiped out by a volcanic eruption in the 1500 B.C. in which the death of people …show more content…

Also the earthquake of 7.0 in Haiti in 2010, this lead to over 200,000 deaths, 2 million homeless, and 3 million people in need of emergency aid. Last the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005 that registered 7.6 in the Richter scale, causing the death of 75,000 people with 106,000 people injured this earthquake happen in Kashmir near the city of Muzaffarabad. What is an earthquake? “Is a shaking of the ground caused by the sudden breaking and movement of large sections (tectonic plates) of the earth 's rocky outermost crust.” (http://www.vtaide.com). Earthquake can happen at any time and at anywhere in the whole world. At this moment as I’m writing this essay 86 earthquake happen around the world and 50,586 in the past year according to http://earthquaketrack.com. An estimated of 200,000 people were killed in Syria due to an …show more content…

In 2005 the hurricane struck the Gulf Coast of the United States, it was a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour. This hurricane causes an estimate of more than $100 billion in damage, and hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were displaced from their homes. Also the cyclone Nargis in 2008 it was evaluated as a category 3 or 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and it hit the northern Indian Ocean, approximate 84,500 people were killed with 53,800 missing. This cyclone landed “in Myanmar and devastated the Ayeyarwady Delta region along with its 37 townships for two day.”

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