A tsunami is coming: But how and when?Indonesian group prepares for worstSeth Mydans
On February 16,1861,a big earthquake struck Sumatra,an Indonesian island.The earthquake shook the western side of the island, (1)(cause ) a tsunami (海啸).That wall of water poured onto shore,destroying towns and taking thousands of (2)(life) ....
Hewas on vacation in T hailand in 2004 and survived the tsunami. "What we can do is build early warning systems and, of course, educatethe population about the damaging power of the tsunami wave," he said.On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake rocked northeastern Japan, triggering...
Earthquakes through History Putting the 2010Chilean and Haitian quakes into historical view related to other earthquakes,including the 1960Chilean quake and the 2004Asian earthquake and tsunami. Rescue and Aid Considering domestic and international response to the disasters by militaries,governments and aid...
What was the loudest recorded sound on earth? The loudest sound in recorded history came from the volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island Krakatoa at 10.02 a.m. on August 27, 1883. The explosion caused two thirds of the island to collapse and formed tsunami waves as high as 46 m (151...
根据第四段中的 "What I can tell you is that the tsunami wave cannot be stopped" 以及 "What we can do is build…of the tsunami wave" 可知,Georgi Velikov Panayotov主要在谈论应对海啸的方法。 (2) 考查推理判断。根据第六段内容可知,Koro Bessho说人们认为他们已经为地震做好了准备,但是他们一直以...
This mechanism is known as the earthquake catastrophe bond (ECB). Several earthquake-prone countries have used the ECB as a source of contingency costs. A visualization of ECB-using countries is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 shows that the first country to use the ECB was Mexico in 2006, ...
Although the term solastalgia has been frequently mentioned in recent years, its operational definition is not entirely clear, and different variations can be found. The first measurement of solastalgia was taken by Higginbotham et al. [3] who studied the population of a territory widely affected...