Found 10 Articles for Natural Calamities

Climate change and ozone depletion are two separate environmental issues that are often confused with each other. While both have the potential to cause serious harm to the planet, the causes, effects, and solutions for each are distinct. What is Climate Change? Climate change is the gradual increase in global temperatures caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial processes. These activities release large amounts of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere, which trap heat and cause the planet to warm up. This warming leads to changes in weather patterns, ... Read More

From a security standpoint, threats and attacks are two critical occurrences. From the perspective of network security, it is critical to grasp the differences between the two.A threat in the realm of information security is the presence of a persistent hazard to information integrity. This might take the shape of a human, a computer virus or malware, or something else.An attack, on the other hand, is the actual act of exploiting the information security system's weaknesses.There are a number of network security dangers and attacks to be aware of, such as Information theft and fraud, putting a halt to routine ... Read More

Landslides are generally mass movement of soil or rocks along the slopes of mountains. They are quite common in hilly regions due to less stability of rocks, solid, debris etc. Since, Himalayas are the young fold mountains or V-shaped valley, caused by the collision of Indo-Australian plate with the Eurasian plate, also are highly prone to landslides which leads heavy loss of both life & property.There are some natural as well as anthropogenic causes behind landslides. Let’s check out a few of them:Natural CausesEarthquakes: Earthquakes are often in Himalaya region which causes loosening of soils that further leads to landslides.Rainfall: ... Read More

The Operation Desert Storm took place in January 1991. American President George H.W.Bush has started what is called the "Operation Desert Storm", the military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait. The historic ground invasion was made in February and coalition forces led by the US has swiftly driven away Iraq from Kuwait within 100 hours.

An earthquake is defined as the sudden shaking of the Earth's surface. Earthquakes are caused by the collision of tectonic plates in the Earth's crust. These plates ride over each other when instability is created in the crust due to the release of energy from the Earth's core.There are large earthquakes and small earthquakes. Earthquakes are measured using an instrument called Seismometer. The magnitude of an earthquake is represented on the Richter scale. On the scale, 3 or less is scarcely noticeable, and magnitude 7 or more causes damage over a wide area.The Great Chilean earthquake also known as the ... Read More

Tsunami means harbor wave in Japanese. These are huge waves of water which are caused by Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other underwater explosions, landslides, meteorite impacts etc. These mentioned activities displace large quantities of water, triggering destructive waves which can measure up to 10 meters tall. They are series of waves with an interval ranging from 5 minutes to few hours.They are very destructive in nature and can wipe out coastal areas, small islands, and ocean basins too. The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was one of the fatal disaster killing approximately 2, 30, 000 people. Tsunamis are not tidal ... Read More

Tsunami means harbor wave in Japanese. These are huge waves of water which are caused by Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other underwater explosions, landslides, meteorite impacts etc. These mentioned activities displace large quantities of water, triggering destructive waves. The waves can measure up to 10 meters tall.They are series of waves with an interval ranging from 5 minutes to few hours. They are very destructive in nature and can wipe out coastal areas, small islands, and ocean basins too. The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was one of the fatal disaster killing approximately 2, 30, 000 people. Tsunamis are not ... Read More

Earthquakes are caused when the rock which is present beneath the ground starts to rupture or breaks the ground along a fault line.Earthquakes usually occur when the Earth's crust which is also known as tectonic plates move past each other under the ground. Due to this, a sudden release of energy is formed which gives rise to seismic waves, and these seismic waves will shake the ground.The earthquakes affect the geography of the earth in the following ways:Ground ShakingGround shaking is a frequent result of earthquakes.When earthquakes have occurred, the first thing the earthquake effects is the ground.When the rocks ... Read More

Let's first understand the Chinese psyche. They respect norms and laws only when they don't have a choice. Where they feel they can subvert the laid down laws, they have no qualms about doing so. That might seem criminal to us since we do everything possible to appear as an international law-abiding nation but for the Chinese, it is just an expression of their aspiration to be the leading nation in the world. Coming to the question - the Chinese are checking out Indian response to this blatant violation of international river-sharing laws. It's a serious challenge and the Indian ... Read More

Undoubtedly, the issue is huge and governments, to be very frank, have only been the mere spectators of the disaster, which not only leaves many homeless but takes away a number of lives every year, especially during monsoon. If not overhaul, the governments at least can do some radical changes to reduce the problems to a large extent.Devastating Flood In BiharBihar is the state where the flood turns out to be devastating. Bihar alone accounts for over half the flood-related loses of the entire country and the main cause of the flooding in this state is the northern tributaries of ... Read More