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Natural Disaster
Types of Natural Disaster
Earthquake
Definition, Effects, Causes and rescues
Japan Earthquake
Nepal Earthquake
Drought
Flood
Tsunami
Volcano Eruption
Landslide
Earthquake
Earthquake
Causing great
destruction
Movements
within the
earth's crust or
volcanic
action.
A sudden and
violent shaking
of the ground
Definition
Earthquake Effects
Social impacts
Economic impacts
Environmental impacts
Short-term
Businesses destroyed.
impacts
Homes destroyed.
Lootingtake place.
Fires spread.
Transport disrupted.
Landslides occur.
Water
supplies
Tsunamis.
contaminated.
Long-term
impacts
Disease spread.
Causes of Earthquake
Related to compression and
tensional stresses.
Fault develops in plate of the Earth
move, shake and rub each other.
Dislocated parts of the earths
surface move up and down.
Volcanic eruptions, rock fall,
landslide and explosions can also
cause earthquakes.
Rescues of Earthquake
Nepal Red Cross Society
UNICEF
The International Federation Of
Red Cross And Red Crescent
Societies (IFRC)
Action Against Hunger
Japan Earthquake
Japan
Earthquake
Tohoku
Earthquake
(2011)
The Great
Kanto
Earthquake
(1923)
Memorial Day
Tohoku Earthquake
Magnitude: 2011
9.0
Duration: 6 minutes
Death Toll: 15891
Collapsed buildings:
272,788 buildings 'half collapsed,
and another 747,989 buildings
partially damaged
Cost:US$235 billion
Effects
7.1 magnitude
after shock
happened
Monshu
moved 2.4m
to the east
Nuclear
accident
occurred
Precious
buildings
destroyed
Gallery
Nuclear reactor
exploded
754 cultural
properties were
damaged across
nineteen
prefectures
Recovery
Nepal Earthquake
1934 Nepal Bihar earthquake
15 January 1934
2:13 PM
8.0 magnitude
10,700 to 12,000
died with 7,253
recorded in Bihar
Conclusio
n
We should appreciate nature.
Do not too pursuit the establishment.
We should help each other irrespective of
race.
We have to be alert about our surroundings
because it affect our daily life.
The End