Inquiry #5

Natural disasters are extreme natural events that can have a very negative effect on the environment & humans, Other natural disasters, such as tornadoes, can only happen in specific areas. And some disasters need climatic conditions to occur, for example tropical storms or volcanic eruptions.

Natural disasters cause the destruction of property, loss of financial resources, and personal injury or illness. Most types of transport would be destroyed, like driving, airports and anything that has anything to do with a road. And tornadoes or earthquakes damage the houses and property of many people, so the amount of money used to remake the city or place the disaster struck would be well over millions of dollars. If you were a tourist and you wanted to go somewhere you would look at the places history and what has happened there. And if you see and earthquake or tornado has gone through that place recently, you might not want to go, because of the past that place has had.So in conclusion the would be another negative effect, the places

So what could we do to be more prepared for natural disasters in the future, firstly we would introduce better flood warning systems.Modify homes and businesses to help them withstand floods and Protect wetlands and introduce plant trees strategically. There are many more ways to try and prepare for future natural disasters but those were some of the main ones I would recommend.

There are alot of causes for natural disasters like global warming, deforestation, mining and activity under the earth's crust. The main cause right now is global warming. It has been affecting the ice caps and affecting polar bears and many other animals that live in cold temperatures.

Earthquakes induced by human activity have been documented at many locations in the United States and in many other countries around the world. Earthquakes can be caused by a wide range of things like impoundment of reservoirs, surface and underground mining, withdrawal of fluids and gas from the surface, and injection of fluids into underground formations. While most “baby” earthquakes are small and present little hazard, larger and potentially damaging man made earthquakes have occurred in the past.

The hazard posed by man made earthquakes can be mitigated by minimizing or in some cases stopping the activity that is causing the earthquakes to occur. For example, earthquakes linked to wastewater disposal in deep wells in Colorado, Ohio and Arkansas stopped occurring after injection was halted.

We cannot prevent natural earthquakes from occurring but we can significantly mitigate their effects by identifying hazards, building safer structures, and providing education on earthquake safety. By preparing for natural earthquakes we can also reduce the risk from human induced earthquakes.

Floods are New Zealand's most frequent natural disaster. In nz we have had quite a lot of floods, most of them damaging properties and land. One of these floods in talking about is a flood that took place in the south island on the 27th of march, 2019 destroying 7 roads and 1 bridge. The police weren't sure but the flood might have taken the life of one person.

Looking at what natural disaster has taken the most lives, it would be the earthquake. The biggest recorded earthquake to take place would be the Haiti earthquake which took 300,000 lives on 12 January 2010 at 16:53. It lasted 30 seconds and it was rated one of the worst earthquakes ever. The next non-earthquake disaster is the Indian ocean tsunami which was caused by an earthquake that is thought to have had the energy of 23,000 atomic bombs. ... Within hours of the earthquake, killer waves slammed into the coastlines of 11 countries, damaging countries from east Africa to Thailand.

The one natural disaster that killed the most people in New Zealand was the earthquake that took place in hawkes bay in 1931, it took 285 people lives. Then there was the south island tsunami that came in the early 1820s and killed 200+ lives. And then there was a more recent one which was the Christchurch earthquake in 2011 and killed 185 people and also destroyed lots of buildings and roads.