Natural Disasters and Prevention We are at a time where our society is able to bring the full force of scientific and technological advances to reduce the number of human tragedy and economic losses due to natural disasters. Although, we must take an integrated and diverse approach to disaster re...

All around the world natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, and hurricanes, are waiting to strike like a time bomb waiting to explode. Once unleashed, these natural disasters could become deadly. One of nature's tremendous natural disasters is the great waves of the migh...

Crystalee Renkel 03/06/01 Jim Vosper PNW History Disasters in Washington State Here in Washington we may not have tornados, hurricanes, or monsoons, but we have our own set of calamities. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, tsunamis, huge fires, severe storms, dam failures, and la...

The Otherness of Nature When people think of nature, they are usually thinking of the wonder, beauty, magnificence, goodness of it all. What about the downside? Do people ever stop and think about the other facets of nature? The truth is, they usually don't. Nobody thinks about the...

LOS ANGELES EARTHQUAKE CONTINGENCY REPORT: Earthquakes are caused by the crust of the Earth not being rigid and immobile but being split up into various tectonic plate boundaries. For hundreds of millions of years, the forces of plate tectonics have shaped the Earth as the huge plates that form the...