Essays on Natural Disasters

During the hurricane many families were stuck in their homes until they were able to be rescued. “According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, the average number of people displaced from their homes…have doubled since 1970”.Some families had to choose from rebuilding their damaged homes...

A warning was issued on the 28th of August in 2005 predicting severe damage from the approaching storm to New Orleans and its surrounding areas. Hurricane Katrina has had catastrophic and prolonged effects on New Orleans and its surroundings. On 29 August 2005, the storm’s...

A dam is a massive barrier built across rivers and streams to confine and utilize the flow of water. Dams are often used as a source for hydroelectricity generation and also for irrigation where it stop a river’s natural course so that water could be...

About this research, I am going to write the purpose and the background knowledge in the introduction. The methodology is writing about how I collect the data, the information and the knowledge. In the findings, I will write about the information and the data I...

There are many volcanoes in Nicaragua. Several sites disagree on exactly how many volcanoes exist in Nicaragua, but it’s somewhere between 19 and 50. Volcano Discovery states “Nicaragua has 19 active volcanoes” (Pfeiffer). Cerro Negro is considered the youngest of those volcanoes, San Cristobal ranks...

Take a moment to close your eyes and picture yourself in this situation. It is a late March afternoon. The skies are as dark as night and the wind has been gusting all day, but suddenly it has come to a halt. The sky has...

On September 8, 1900 a hurricane hit Galveston, Texas. Also known as the “Great Storm of 1900,” killed an estimated 8,000 to 12,000 people. The dead bodies were burned for a week. It is not the deadliest from the size of the hurricane, but because...

Since the first single-celled organism developed on Earth, life has found a way to survive on this green planet. When one organism becomes more prevalent than another, life corrects the error and tries to re-balance that particular ecosystem. Everything in life needs to be balanced...

The dramatic power of mother earth’s destructive capabilities suddenly stuck the nation of Haiti. This tragic natural disaster hit Port Au- Prince, Haiti causing devastating damage and loss of life that has been rarely seen before. On January 12th, 2010 the people and country were...

A flood is an emission of water that covers land that is usually dry. Floods are among Earth`s most common and devastating natural disaster. Some floods can occur unexpectedly, others take days or even months to build and discharge. A flash flood is a rapid...