PressReleasePing The Decade Anniversary of Tsunami Marked Across Asia‚-- Divulges KAKHTAH Post-doc Multiversity in SAARC Region. Besides the several memorials paid by victims‚ survivors and the general public‚ the academic commencements of Tsunami commemoration also became events of note. The enormous observance also divulged a Post-doc Multiversity KAKHTAH‚ to be established in Asia for higher research studies on disaster risk reduction. Colombo‚ Sri Lanka‚ January 01‚ 2015 /PressReleasePing/ -
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The Silver Tsunami: The Challenges in Developing an Adequately Trained Nursing Force to Meet the Rising Tide of Elderly Baby Boomers Carel D. Peterson San Francisco State University The Silver Tsunami: The Challenges in Developing an Adequately Trained Nursing Force to Meet the Rising Tide of Elderly Baby Boomers In what is described as a silver tsunami‚ the baby boomers (boomers) are turning sixty-five years old at an alarming rate (Heise‚ et al.‚ 2012). Beginning in 2010 when the first wave
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9 April‚ 2014 Technology: Is it Damaging the Way we Think? Senior fellow at the Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California and the author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination‚ Neal Gabler‚ in his article “The Elusive Big Idea‚” published by The New York Times (2011)‚ argues that due to technology the development of new ideas and thought are of little value to society. He supports his claim by doing the following: first; introducing the idea that society
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Are the lives of young people being irreparably damaged by the development of technology? It is amazing that a website like Facebook‚ which enables social networking‚ has gripped the teenage spirit in such an unprecedented way. Indeed‚ Kurt Cobain would probably agree that nothing smells more like teen spirit nowadays than the lower case white ‘f’ imprinted upon the light blue background. Yet social networking does not encapsulate the spontaneity and energies of youth‚ or even the always fluctuating
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Problem: It is a known fact about tsunamis that if the level of the water is higher‚ then the velocity of the wave will be greater. How does an uneven bottom affect the velocity of tsunami waves at different water levels? Hypothesis: I believe that an uneven bottom will still result in the velocity of the wave being greater when the water level is higher. 5 MLA References with Annotations: 1. Michelle‚ Maranowski‚ PhD. “The Science Behind Tsunamis: Study the Effect of Water Depth on Wave Velocity
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Tsunamis are series of ocean waves caused by underwater seismic activity or volcanic activity. Several countries all around the world are being affected by this type of natural disaster and even though usually small tsunamis do not cause much damage‚ the giant waves are a threat. A tsunami while reaching the shore full of people. http://www.positivestart.org/images/china_2002_wave_350.jpgThe tsunami from December 2004 was generated by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and its waves devastated the Indian
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what extent are secondary effects the most hazardous aspects of tsunamis? Tsunami s are a series of giant sea waves created when a large volume of a body of water‚ such as an ocean‚ is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions‚ landslides‚ asteroid impacts‚ and other mass movements above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. Due to the immense volumes of water and energy involved‚ the effects of tsunamis can be devastating. Their
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Conclusion To conclude our report from the understandable of Tsunami happens in Malaysia‚ there is lot of memorable and sadness when the boxing day. Seven years after Tsunami‚ while the human dimensions of the tragedy will take much longer to heal the country has made major steps towards recovering from the worst economic effects of the disaster. Apart from unrecoverable losses in human lives‚ the tsunami would cost us billions of dollars and decades to restore its damage. However‚ it also provided
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Indian Ocean Tsunami On December 26‚ 2004‚ the Indian Ocean earthquake‚ or the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake‚ caused a tsunami that killed 230‚000 people and was recorded as the deadliest tsunami in known history. The earthquake was recorded as between 9.1 and 9.3 on the Richter scale‚ the second largest earthquake ever recorded. It was also recorded as the longest one‚ triggering earthquakes as far away as Alaska. Following the disaster‚ a worldwide effort raised billions of dollars in tsunami relief
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played a role in one of the worst natural disasters the state has ever seen when‚ on Jun. 15‚ flash floods caused by a cloudburst and glacial leaks swept thousands of unsuspecting pilgrims away in what scientists are now referring to as a “Himalayan tsunami”. The state’s chief minister said Thursday that the death toll could exceed 1‚000‚ with 300 bodies found just this morning buried beneath silt beside the largest temple in the town of Kedarnath. Countless tourists were trapped for days in pitiable
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