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Essay on The Effects of Natural Disasters

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Our Earth has suffered a great deal from reoccurring natural disasters that have repeatedly put a strain on people’s lives. A natural disaster is a sudden event, an accident or a natural havoc, that causes great extents of damage or multiple deaths. Over these past years a numerous amount of these disasters has been seen happening all around the world. Tragedies of towns getting torn apart were reported as well as the occurrence of many deaths, disabilities and shelter damage. People have been losing relatives, friends, shelter and property. Even though these disasters cannot be stopped from occurring, recognizing their danger and their effects is essential.
Natural disasters may occur in many different forms including but not limited to …show more content…

The Indian Ocean tsunami traveled as far as 3,000 miles to Africa and still arrived with sufficient force to kill people and destroy property.
 The earthquake that led to a tsunami resulted in at least 155,000 deaths, 500,000 injuries, and damages that exceeded 10 billion dollars. Estimation was also made that approximately 5 million people lost their homes during this A final example of natural disasters would be Hurricane Pauline. Hurricane Pauline is one of the most destructive and deadly Pacific hurricanes to make land in Mexico. On it's way up the Mexican coastline. The hurricane killed roughly 250-400 people and left 300,000 people with no shelter. Other than all the lives and houses that were destroyed Hurricane Pauline caused a massive amount of damage, exceeding $7.5 billion (USD 1997).

All in all natural disasters cannot be handled, delayed, or stopped. They happen according to natural reasons in our environment. Natural disasters are very dangerous and life threatening. They occur in many different ways according to the cause of the disaster. One disaster might bring along the other just like what happened to the earthquake in the Indian Ocean. It started a tsunami that caused even more damage. In India they didn’t have indicators of tsunami for the Indian Ocean, which could have saved a lot of peoples lives. Fearing the catastrophe may actually save your life,

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