REMIDIES AGAINST NATURAL CALAMITIES

BY: SYED HAMDAN HYDERROLL # 3032

BY: SYED HAMDAN HYDERROLL # 3022

CONTENTS What are Natural Calamities? Types of Natural Calamities Ten world worst natural calamities Remedies Conclusion

WHAT ARE NATURAL CALAMITIES?

Natural Calamities are the effect of various natural hazard that:

affects the environment and leads to financial, environmental and/or

human losses.

The loss arising from it is greater where density of population is higher.

TYPES OF NATURAL CALAMITIES

Earthquake Floods Tornado Hurricane Volcanic Eruption Landslides

EARTHQUAKE

Earthquake is the shaking and vibration of the earth’s surface usually triggered by underground stress along fault lines.

FLOODSFloods are caused by overflow of water on land that are usually dry.

HURRICANEHurricane are large tropical storm with heavy winds. They contain winds of more than 74 miles per hour and heavy rainfall.

LANDSLIDES

Landslide occur when masses of rock or debris move down the slope.

TORNADO

Tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending, between and in contact with cloud and surface of the earth.

VOLCANIC ERUPTION

Volcanic eruption is the spurting out of gases and hot lava from an opening in the earth’s crust.

TEN WORLD’S WORST NATURAL CALAMITIES

RANK DEATH TOLL (ESTIMATE)

EVENT LOCATION DATE

1 1,000,000-2,500,000 1931 China floods China July 1931

2 900,000-2,000,000 1887 Yellow River Floods China Sept 1887

3 830,000 1556 Shaanxi earthquake China Jan 1556

4 500,000 1970 Bhola cyclone East Pakistan Nov 1970

5 300,000 1839 India Cyclone India Nov 1839

6 250,000-300,00 526 Antioch earthquake Turkey May 526

7 242,419 1976 Tangshan earthquake China July 1976

8 234,117 1920 Haiyuan earthquake China Dec 1920

9 230,210 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Indonesia Dec 2004

10 222,000 2010 Haiti earthquake Haiti Jan 2010

REMEDIES AGAINST NATURAL CALAMITIESEARTHQUAKE Constructing Earthquake proof structures. Go to open places . Drop down and take cover. FLOODS Building Dams. Placing sandbags along the river bank to serve as levees and placing large rocks. Strictly ban tree cutting. Forest cultivation on war footing.

HURRICANE First aid kit. Seal your doors and windows. If u living in coastal areas than immediately evacuate the area if weather worsens. Don’t park your vehicles under trees.

TORNADO Take cover in underground shelter. Seal your doors and windows. If possible leave the area.

LANDSLIDING Plant trees on hilly and mountainous areas. Immediately leave the area where land sliding occurred. Ban tree cutting.

VOLCANIC ERUPTION Move towards a safe place. If ash fall occur, cover your nose with wet cloth.

CONCLUSIONThe effect of natural calamities has been made worse by men’s activities on earth. Despite the fact that natural calamities can’t be avoided, but steps should be taken to minimize the loss of life and property.

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