In Joplin Kansas City an F5 earthqauke struck through a city killing a total of 162 people. In my opinion this is way too high of a number. The government in Joplin Kansas City said that many residents either ignored or reacted very poorly to the early warning signs stating a very dangerous tornado was headed their way. They said that the community ignored the warning signs due to years of false alamrs in the past. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that people were waiting for more information.
As I stated before, the number of casualties created by this storm was way too high. While reading this article I could not help but to think that this community should have had more emergency procedures in place but I found out that they applied for 10,000 weather radios for the residents homes, along with 4000 place shelters but were denied. This disaster could have been avoided if the radios and shelters were issued to the community and that people responded better to the early warning signals.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/20/nws-many-in-joplin-ignored-1st-tornado-warnings/
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Himalayan Quake
On September 19th, 2011 a 6.9 scaled earthquake devastated the mountains of India, Nepal, and Tibet. The earthquake caused major damage to over 100,000 homes, accompanied by landslides, power outages, water and food shortages, the earthquaked claimed the lives of 53 people. With all of the houses crumpled to the ground, rescuers along side military personal are still digging through the rubble searching for trapped people.
While it is very clear that this disaster was unexpected, I think that there should have been better planning before and after the earthquake occured. First off, media reports that an earthquake like this happened in the years 1950, and 1997. If better construction on the houses were taken I think that there may not have been so many deaths. People also had to spend a night outside with little or no food to eat. While rescue personal were making attempts to drop food off via helicopter, the cities should have had reserves prepared just in case something like this did happen. Maybe in the future they will impliment such tactics to mitigate the collateral damage of having an earthquake in the moutians.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iX2jeXsAw-L5eNjWO_uWTss_glhA?docId=1fbea8b8514845efb5e0372d048c4412
While it is very clear that this disaster was unexpected, I think that there should have been better planning before and after the earthquake occured. First off, media reports that an earthquake like this happened in the years 1950, and 1997. If better construction on the houses were taken I think that there may not have been so many deaths. People also had to spend a night outside with little or no food to eat. While rescue personal were making attempts to drop food off via helicopter, the cities should have had reserves prepared just in case something like this did happen. Maybe in the future they will impliment such tactics to mitigate the collateral damage of having an earthquake in the moutians.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iX2jeXsAw-L5eNjWO_uWTss_glhA?docId=1fbea8b8514845efb5e0372d048c4412
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