Natural disaster can occur any time of our life and we cant control it.
There are of course countless studies which show how floods,earthquakes,volcanic eruptions,droughts and typhoons occur.Scientist spend lifetimes studying the phenomena are able to anayse the causes.By causes all we really know is what leades to them.An example would be when an ocenic and continental plate meets,the oceanic plate being the denser would subduct under the continental plate,which will cause a fissure.Lava will rise up and a volcano is formed and from time to time fire bursts forth and we have a volcanic erruption.
In developed countries ,technology is advailable and we are able to detect when a volcano will errupt or even indicators to show when an earthquake will occur and this provide enough time for people to evacuate which helps in our daily lifes.However for those in less developed countries,many lives are lost when there is a natural disaster.
What is not as far known is how natural disaster can be prevented.Some prevention would be educating the people such as having drills. An example would be in Japan, students often have earthquake drills which teach the students to hide under the table when there is an earthquake or seek higher ground.Those little precautions could save many lives.
Are any of these disasters caused by man?Well,we can see that man is not the cause of earthquakes,volcanic erruptions,but perhaps we do in some way cause weather-realted disasters such as droughts,floods and typhoons.Those disasters can be affected by clearing of forests on earth,which will lead to droughts due to soil erosion,hence some disaster can be controlled.All we can do is hope that a day will come when we can control all natural disasters.Till then we have to remain at the mercy of nature.
We are all fortunate people ,as Singapore is surrounded by neighbouring countries which at times helps to block natural disasters,therefore the frequencey of natural disaster occuring in Singapore is very low.
There are of course countless studies which show how floods,earthquakes,volcanic eruptions,droughts and typhoons occur.Scientist spend lifetimes studying the phenomena are able to anayse the causes.By causes all we really know is what leades to them.An example would be when an ocenic and continental plate meets,the oceanic plate being the denser would subduct under the continental plate,which will cause a fissure.Lava will rise up and a volcano is formed and from time to time fire bursts forth and we have a volcanic erruption.
In developed countries ,technology is advailable and we are able to detect when a volcano will errupt or even indicators to show when an earthquake will occur and this provide enough time for people to evacuate which helps in our daily lifes.However for those in less developed countries,many lives are lost when there is a natural disaster.
What is not as far known is how natural disaster can be prevented.Some prevention would be educating the people such as having drills. An example would be in Japan, students often have earthquake drills which teach the students to hide under the table when there is an earthquake or seek higher ground.Those little precautions could save many lives.
Are any of these disasters caused by man?Well,we can see that man is not the cause of earthquakes,volcanic erruptions,but perhaps we do in some way cause weather-realted disasters such as droughts,floods and typhoons.Those disasters can be affected by clearing of forests on earth,which will lead to droughts due to soil erosion,hence some disaster can be controlled.All we can do is hope that a day will come when we can control all natural disasters.Till then we have to remain at the mercy of nature.
We are all fortunate people ,as Singapore is surrounded by neighbouring countries which at times helps to block natural disasters,therefore the frequencey of natural disaster occuring in Singapore is very low.
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