Session Long Project involve developing a disaster management program a specific country include hazard analysis, prevention, preparedness, response, recovery plans. Epidemiology Disasters Respond: 1.
In 2011, Japan was shook by a devastating earthquake which claimed thousands of deaths and led to serious economic casualties. Since then, a number of concerns have been raised in regards to expectations of an even vengeful one in the near future. In fact, Japan has had a history of damaging quakes throughout the years. In 2004, the Ch-etsu Earthquakes, although less serious as to the number of human lives, forced many people to leave homes and injured thousands. It was considered the most vengeful quake since 1995 when thousands were killed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake, hundreds of thousands more were affected one way or another and substantial economical damage was registered. As such, Japanese have become more vigilant in regards to their safety and are keeping their guard up, aware of an imminent danger.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Japan has been subject to some various harmful and other less dangerous earthquakes considering that the Asian continent is one of the regions where seismic activity is not merely regular, but frequent. In fact, when addressing the number of human casualties, Asia is situated at the top of the list with a distribution of deaths of 67%. This is to say that, of all continents, the level of impact of earthquakes is most high in Asia when considering the number of deaths. Furthermore, there is an approximately 80 percentage of economical damage caused by earthquakes, subsequently tsunamis which occur because of the former. This again makes Asia the most affected of continents in matters of estimated financial damage. Although Japan has had its share of devastating natural disasters...
The Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) provided in January this year a top 10 of worldwide deadliest disasters. Accordingly, whereas the earthquake, subsequently tsunami in Japan 2011 registered 19,846 number of deaths, the earthquake/tsunami in Indonesia several years earlier was estimated at 165,708 (CRED, January 2013). The latter was the second biggest tsunami ever registered and it was caused by an undersea megathrust earthquake. Like Japan, Indonesia is also situated in the Pacific's Ring of Fire which is an area subject to intense tectonic activity and thus, earthquakes and tsunamis occur regularly. The impact of the 2004 series of tsunamis was felt in a number of other regions as well, like Bangladesh, Yemen, Singapore, etc., including several African areas. Because of their position in relation to the Ring of Fire, both Indonesia and Japan have known frequent seismic activity. However, it is difficult to assess the level of frequency in Asian countries individually precisely because seismic activity is common. In this respect, addressing major earthquake disasters may be more effective in contrasting quakes' frequency, subsequently the impact and the aftermath consequences. In Asia, earthquakes occur on a 12% rate which is overthrown by floods with a 45 percentage of occurrence and a 27% storm rate. However, neither of the last two has registered as many deaths or economic damage as earthquakes. This goes to show that the impact of this particular natural disaster is substantial on the Asian continent and it dramatically reflects upon the people and the overall situation. A report from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has acknowledged that, although all…
