Posted by thanate in General on 07. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Nearly all businesses large and small rely heavily on electronic technology for day-to-day operations, inventory control, all kinds of documentation (including payroll), and much more. If a business has been hit by disaster such as flooding or fire, the results can be disastrous not just for facility structures, but for IT systems, phone systems, and [...]
Sinkhole or swallow hole is a natural depression or hole in the earth’s surface caused by karst processes. The chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks. Sinkholes may vary in size from less than 1 to 300 meters both in diameter and depth, and vary in form from soil-lined bowls to bedrock-edged chasms. They may be formed [...]
An Icelandic glaciologist Thursday predicted that the ongoing volcanic eruption under Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier could become more drastic, according to reports from Reykjavik. Several monitoring results show that the seismic activities in Eyjafjallajokull may indicate a more severe eruption is on the way, said a report from Iceland’s national Broadcasting RUV. Photo: usposttoday.com Sigrunn Hreinsdottir, [...]
An eruption at Guatemala’s Santiaguito volcano has sent a plume of ash 27,300 feet above sea level with 4 faces of crater collapses and pyroclastic flows generated within the gullies on the southern flank. Calamity response agency spokesman David De Leon says the volcano has calmed since Monday’s big burst – though it is still [...]
Yushu earthquake struck on April 14, 2010. It originated in Yushu, Qinghai, China, at 7:49 am local time. According to the Xinhua News Agency, 2,220 people have been confirmed dead, 70 missing, and 12,135 injured of which 1,434 are severely injured. The epicenter was located in Rima village, Upper Laxiu township of Yushu County, in [...]
A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a low pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and flooding rain. A tropical cyclone feeds on heat released when moist air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapour contained in the moist air. They are fueled by a different heat mechanism than other [...]
Volcanic ash consists of small tephra, which are bits of pulverized rock and glass created by volcanic eruptions, less than 2 millimetres in diameter. There are three mechanisms of volcanic ash formation: gas release under decompression causing magmatic eruptions; thermal contraction from chilling on contact with water causing phreatomagmatic eruptions, and ejection of entrained particles [...]
Posted by thanate in General, Hurricane on 23. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
The world we live in is not devoid of problems. Natural disasters are not a new phenomenon. Many are the times they leave devastating effects whose repair consumes a lot of time energy and resources. One of the greatest natural disasters of all times in the United States was the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. It left [...]
Posted by thanate in Floods, General on 15. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
If your home has been hit by flooded due to a broken pipe, spring runoff, or backed up sewer, your first instinct is probably to start removing the water right away by whatever means are readily at hand. However, there are right responses and wrong responses to a flooded home and for safety’s sake it’s [...]
Posted by thanate in Tornadoes on 10. Jun, 2010 | No Comments
Tornados and thunderstorms that swept through the Midwest overnight killed a number of people in Ohio, destroyed 50 homes and damaged a high school gymnasium where graduation was to be held Sunday. Volunteers in droves have been doing what they can to help residents in Millbury clean up after the EF-4 tornado that killed five [...]
Posted by thanate in Floods on 08. Jun, 2010 | No Comments
Flooding continued to wreak havoc in Poland on Tuesday, after the Vistula River breached a dam in the village of Janowiec overnight as the flood wave continued to move north, Polish broadcasters reported. Water poured out of a 100-metre-long crack in the dam, flooding some 1,000 hectares in the area. Fresh flooding in Poland has [...]
Posted by thanate in Cyclonic storms, General, Hurricane on 15. May, 2010 | No Comments
Hurricanes and tropical storms are a worldwide phenomenon. The storms affecting the United States and the Caribbean are called hurricanes while the storms in the Pacific are called typhoons and tropical storms in the Indian Ocean are designated tropical cyclones. The hurricane season will be upon us shortly and it is wise to begin preparations [...]
Posted by thanate in General, Hurricane, Wildfires on 25. Apr, 2010 | 2 Comments
Many people have started to realize that they may not be prepared for such events to take place. With The various types of natural calamities that have taken place in recent years, While no one wants to think it can happen to them, we have all seen the footage of Hurricane Katrina and it was [...]
Posted by thanate in Earthquakes on 23. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
An Earthquake is a sudden shake of the Earth’s crust.The vibrations may vary in magnitude. The underground point of origin of the earthquake is called the “focus”. The point directly above the focus on the surface is called the”epicenter”. Photo: IFRC Earthquakes by themselves rarely kill people or wildlife. It is usually the secondary events [...]
Posted by thanate in Wildfires on 23. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, vegetation fire, and wildland fire may be used to describe the same phenomenon depending on the type of vegetation being burned. A wildfire differs from [...]
