Sentences with phrase «after earthquake disasters»

«After earthquake disasters, everyone says it's the buildings that kill people.

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Chen went on to say he had helped over two million people with his philanthropy and had donated money after natural disasters such as the 2010 Japanese Tsunami or the Haitian earthquake from the same year.

And the penalties for being unprepared can be mighty steep: The American Red Cross, among others, estimates that as many as 40 % of SMBs simply never reopen after a disaster such as a flood, tornado, or earthquake.

After disasters like 9/11 or Japan's earthquake, people feel united in their shared trauma, and use first - person plural pronouns («we - words,» as Pennebaker calls them) a great deal.

They are usually among the first teams on the ground after a natural disaster (think tsunami in Indonesia, Haiti earthquake).

Nepal received more than $ 4.4 billion in foreign aid after an earthquake 16 times more powerful than Haiti's 2010 disaster killed more than 9,000 people in April.

People pray to God after a disaster, never questioning why he would send them a hurricane / earthquake / tsunami in the first place.

After one earthquake disaster, Christian Aid gave money to help the villagers rebuild their mosque.

After the next tornado or earthquake or church bus crash or pick any other disaster that randomly destroys life and heaps sorrow, ask yourselves «Where was God?»

So... the past earthquakes, tsunamis, and all other natural disasters were just random acts of violence from «God»... Everything after May 21st will be because of Judgement Day though, obviously.

It was not that long ago when we were noting that even a natural disaster like the earthquake that rattled parts of New Zealand early last year could not shake Lydia Ko's nearly flawless play as the then - teen phenom continued to compile win after win and secure her stranglehold on the world No. 1 ranking.

«We've all been taken aback by what happened in L'Aquila,» says Thomas Jordan, a seismologist at the University of Southern California and chairman of an international commission on earthquake forecasting that was set up after the disaster.

The devastating tsunami that was generated in the Indian Ocean in 2004 after a magnitude 9 earthquake has been recorded as one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history after it caused over 230,000 deaths in 14 countries.

3 - D digital preservation not only helps save the memories of historical sites, it also guides restoration projects after natural disasters, such as the earthquakes that damaged the temples of Bagan.Editor's Note: Viewers sensitive to flashing light may want to avoid this video.

Last March, after the Sendai earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the aftershocks of the disaster seemed to put the worldwide nuclear power industry on shaky ground.

In the months after the Northridge disaster, engineers began to find cracks in the welds joining the columns and beams together — in the very connections designed to enable the structural frames to absorb the energy generated by an earthquake without toppling over.

Reeves has studied the effect of natural disasters on voting patterns and has found that when a local official asks for federal aid after an earthquake, hurricane or tornado, that official gets a bump of a few points in the polls.

Six years ago, after watching hurricane Katrina and Pakistan's Kashmir earthquake leave tens of thousands homeless, California builder Michael Conner set out to design a sturdy shelter that could be deployed at a moment's notice in the wake of a disaster.

«Our shake table enables researchers to test structural specimens at full - scale for severe earthquake ground motions, which is crucial for making the kinds of structural engineering advances that save lives and enhance the resilience of communities after natural disasters.»

Tests off the coast of Japan shortly after the 2011 earthquake and nuclear plant disaster measured radiation at 50 million becquerel per cubic meter, Buesseler said.

Archaeologists concluded that the Minoans had not only survived but thrived after the eruption, expanding their culture until they were hit by some other, unknown disaster — perhaps some combination of fire, earthquake, or foreign invader.

«Our motivation for this study came from information local law enforcement agencies gave us about using scent - detection dogs to help them find living and deceased victims after mass disasters like earthquakes,» explained Prue Armstrong, lead author of the study from the University of Technology Sydney.

Five questions that are believed to reveal important psychosomatic characteristics after a disaster (flashbacks, appetite loss, somatic reactions such as headache and abdominal pain, attention deficit, and anxiety) were added to the Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms 10 - item (PTSS - 10) questionnaire that was used as a screening test after the Great Hanshin earthquake and the 2004 Southeast Asia tsunami [14], [37], [38].

After the meeting, the delegates visited the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at the new extension of Aobayama Campus, and shared how Tecnológico de Monterrey dealt with September's Central Mexico Earthquake.

Following on from last week's second trailer [watch it here], a new poster has arrived online for the disaster epic San Andreas, which reunites Journey 2: The Mysterious Island helmer Brad Peyton with leading man Dwayne Johnson... After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and -LSB-...]

Thanks to USA Today, we've got a couple of new images from director Brad Peyton's (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) upcoming disaster flick San Andreas, featuring Dwayne Johnson (Hercules) alongside Carla Gugino (Wayward Pines)... «After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot -LSB-...]

San Andreas actually apes The Day After Tomorrow so closely that at times, it feels like Cuse just took the latter film's script, cut - and - replaced all instances of «storm» with «earthquake» and «runs from cold» with «runs from opening fissures,» and called it a day — like Tomorrow, the film centers on a father's unlikely determination to cross a disaster zone to save an adult child, with only a minimal idea of where his kid might be in a city approaching a population of 1 million.

Earthquake doesn't have the grandiosity of the Irwin Allen films or even a recent disaster epic like The Day After Tomorrow.

Soon after he urgently reports back to President Wilson (Danny Glover), bizarre events start the countdown to Armageddon, including every disaster imaginable from tsunami - triggering earthquakes to mass suicides in Guatemala.

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San Andreas joins a long list of disaster movies that have been hurtled our way over the past few years; from the heights of Irwin Allen's epics of the 1960s and 1970s (see The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure), to the more recent CGI affairs, most of which were thrown at the screen by German director Roland Emmerich (2012, The Day After Tomorrow).

After the terrible 2011 earthquake in Japan, VIZ Media and Autodesk released the digital art anthology Art for Hope with all of VIZ's proceeds going to disaster relief.

Since then, every volume except volume 62 (published two months after the March 11 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake disaster) has set a new record in first printing.

World Housing Solution has designed and built a prototype of its 180 - square - foot, storm - proof shelter, which can be quickly assembled for temporary use after a natural disaster but is also strong enough to serve as permanent housing for the estimated 680,000 Haitians still living in tents after last year's earthquake.

Jon was inspired to develop Tokyo Dark after his firsthand experience of the Tōhoku earthquake and Fukashima nuclear disaster in 2011.

These include «After Dark» which gives you the opportunity to add a nightlife to the city and «Natural Disasters» which includes the option to inflict misery on your population with such horrors as earthquakes, meteors, and sinkholes.

«Just as we were concluding our review process, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and the earthquakes in Mexico, hit one after another», said the WMF's new director Joshua David, adding that the list's focus on natural disasters «could not be more timely or urgent».

Things Fall Apart consists of five disasters — India after an earthquake, the Midwest after tornadoes, California after wildfires, Florida after hurricanes and Indonesia and Thailand after the tsunami.

Using as her starting point the Mohammed Khaïr - Eddine surrealist text Agadir, centered on the 1967 earthquake that devastated the Moroccan city, Barrada weaves together personal narratives and political histories to examine how a city and its people might approach the process of reinvention after a disaster.

But along with the recent economic stagnation, the earthquakes in Eastern Japan, and the after effects of the nuclear disaster, a collective depression from an inability to vent their frustrations continues to accumulate within their society.»

One disturbing aspect of the disaster is that a powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake in nearly the same location on March 9 — almost assuredly related, in terms of geophysics, to the super quake overnight — can only be recognized as a foreshock after the fact.

They won a grant from the Lemelson - MIT Program to develop a lightweight, portable disaster relief shelter, designed to be complete with a water purification system and a renewable energy source to power an LED light, which could be used after disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or tornadoes to house people who have been displaced.

Disaster - traumatized people I've worked with, in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, in the northeast after Superstorm Sandy, in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and, now, in Houston and Northern California, are rarely in denial.

After the 2011 disaster in Fukushima, Japan, the Chinese government put the brakes on building nuclear power stations in the west of the country, as this is an area prone to earthquakes.

Assessment of disaster losses in rice paddy fields and yield after tsunami induced by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 20 (6), 618 - 623.

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The market for whale meat in Iceland is limited, and after the earthquake / tsunami disaster in Japan, exports to there have dropped drastically.

It is expected that consumers will be able to choose electricity from renewable sources instead of fossil fuel - powered thermal (along with its problems in terms of climate change) or nuclear power generation (whose great risks again became evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011).

5) The Hexayurt is an emergency structure which is cheap, self - contained and easily packed for transportation; a Hexayurt village is intended to replace all the infrastructure which might be damaged after a major disaster such as an earthquake or flood.

Scientists continue to track the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster after the Great East Japan Earthquake.