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A lot of people have seen the damage that a tsunami can cause as evidenced by the one that happened in December 26, 2004. Caused by an earthquake somewhere in the Indian Ocean, the tsunami generated was able to devastate a number of countries, caused over 220,000 casualties in the areas that the killer waves reached and displaced a million others after its wake. Despite a substantial delay of about several hours from the earthquake event and the first impact of the tsunami, a majority of the vic…
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What is a Tsunami?
Posted by admin on November 16th, 2007
What is a tsunami?A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water is suddenly displaced. They are also called seismic waves since most tsunamis are caused by seismic activity such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and even landslides under bodies of water. In prehistoric times, some scientists believe that tsunamis might have even been caused by meteorite impact in the ocean. What causes a tsunami?Tsunamis can be seen as a series of traveling ocean waves having great lengths that ha…
Effect of Climate Change
Posted by admin on November 6th, 2007
Climate change simply describes the different variations in the Earth’s collective, global climate or in regional climates over a longer period of time. This essentially refers to the average state of the atmosphere that is present in a particular time scale. It either ranges from decades to millions of years and can be influenced by a number of environmental factors. The Earth can influence it by something as big as sunlight intensity or as non-conventional as human activities. Recently, it has…
Factors that Determine Weather
Posted by admin on November 6th, 2007
The weather can be aptly described as a set of all existing phenomena that is contained in a particular atmosphere at any given time. This terms usually pertains to the different activities of these phenomena over brief periods of time such as days or maybe even hours. This is not synonymous to the term “climate” which essentially refers to the average atmospheric condition in a given place over a long period of time. When the term “weather” is used, it is understood to be the weather of the “Ea…