Man-made disasters.....?

Question

....Names of any two man-made disasters, impact of the disaster and strategies of survival...
It's for my holiday homework!!

this is my holiday homework.....Man-made disasters WITH STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL may sound ridiculous but thats my hw. Are floods indirectly man-made disasters?

Answer 1

Here is a good place for you to start to do your research: http://www.cyndislist.com/disasters.htm - You will find many more than just two names there.

Answer 2

The impact of a natural or man-made hazard that negatively affects society or environment Alot of disasters that most think of as a natural disaster, are really man made disasters. Take Hurricane Katrina for example. The end game did not have to be what it was. Bush cut funding to re-build the levies. If the levies would have been updated, the outcome would not have been so devestating. Tsunamis aren't just caused by underwater earthquakes, but explosions on the sea floor created by man. {experiments.} These are just a couple of examples. Handfuls of natural disasters are worsened by man made attributes.

Answer 3

On February 15, 1898, a mysterious explosion sunk the U.S.S. Maine, an American battleship that was in the harbor of Havana, Cuba. This occurred while Cuba was fighting for its independence from Spain. During this period, William Randolph Hearst, who owned a chain of newspapers, knew that stories about disasters sold papers. Hearst decided that his newspapers would report that Spain was to be blamed for the explosion in which 260 American seamen lost their lives. (Most historians now believe that the explosion was caused by a malfunctioning boiler.) The incident led the U.S. to go to war with Spain in the Spanish-American War. In this film you can see what was left of the U.S.S. Maine surrounded by wrecking boats.

Have you ever seen a wrecking ball demolish a building or a structure blown up by dynamite? There is something strangely fascinating about watching the destruction of a building. In 1902, the Star Theatre building on 13th Street in New York City was demolished. The Star Theatre had been around since the Civil War. It opened in 1861 as Wallack's Theatre, and was renamed the Star in 1883. It had a rich history of excellent productions with some of the best actors of the time. It's estimated that this film, which shows the destruction of the building using time-lapse photography, was shot over a period of 30 days.

9/11...acts of terrorism that shocked the world..no strategy in surviving when a debris falls from a highstorey tower.

& much,much more....

Answer 4

The destruction of the Aral Sea under the Soviet regime is a prime example of this, look it up. Another disaster would be a war, such as the Second World War or the Gulf War (part I.) This is a good start, now do your own homework, lol!

Answer 5

Some flooding could be considered human-caused, if it's by failure of poorly-designed levee systems OR drainage systems.

Coconut Grove Fire, 1942, Boston: Highly flammable materials in the nightclub = toxic fumes, massive overcrowding, locked/blocked/inadequate fire exits. 492 died. Results: national changes in fire codes; changes in burn treatment, among others. Plenty of information online. See also Benzaquin's book; it's one of the best I've read.

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911) was a significant event in labor union history---146 died (mostly women, many were immigrants) in a NY factory due to locked exit doors, and collapse of a fire escape. Changes in labor laws---see _Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. Leon's Stein's _Triangle Fire_ is classic; also lots of online archives.

Good luck on researching your paper!

Answer 6

halifax explosion in halifax nova scotia canada in 1917
a munition ship the mont blanc collide with the imo a belgian relief vessel in bedford bassin in halifax ns canada during world war one the resulting explosion was the largest man made explosion before the atomic bomb in 1945, killed 3000 blinded another 2000 and left thousand of homeless and orphans check halifax explosion on yahoo,ca the result was changing of maritime lawn over the world for munitions ship and also for houses that got destroyed by the explosion



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the titanic, the sinking made history and also change law concerning life boat also brought the fondation of the ice patrol
today the ice patrol is done by the canadian coast gurard and us coast guard

Answer 7

William Mulholland was blamed for the failure of the St. Francis Dam.

Plus there's the Great Chicago Fire, caused when a bakery was left unattended, causing the whole damn thing.

Answer 8

Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades.

The Earth's average near-surface atmospheric temperature rose 0.6 ± 0.2 °Celsius (1.1 ± 0.4 °Fahrenheit) in the 20th century. The prevailing scientific opinion on climate change is that "most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities" [1].

The increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the primary causes of the human-induced component of warming. They are released by the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing and agriculture, etc. and lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect.

The measure of the response to increased GHGs, and other anthropogenic and natural climate forcings is climate sensitivity. It is found by observational [2] and model studies. This sensitivity is usually expressed in terms of the temperature response expected from a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere. The current literature estimates sensitivity in the range 1.5–4.5 °C (2.7–8.1 °F). Models referenced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) project that global temperatures may increase by between 1.4 and 5.8 °C (2.5 to 10.5 °F) between 1990 and 2100. The uncertainty in this range results from both the difficulty of estimating the volume of future greenhouse gas emissions and uncertainty about climate sensitivity.

An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including a rising sea level and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. These changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and tornados. Other consequences include higher or lower agricultural yields, glacier retreat, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors. Warming is expected to affect the number and magnitude of these events; however, it is difficult to connect particular events to global warming. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming (and sea level rise due to thermal expansion) is expected to continue past then, since CO2 has a long average atmospheric lifetime [1].

Only a small minority of climate scientists discount the role that humanity's actions have played in recent warming. However, the uncertainty is more significant regarding how much climate change should be expected in the future, and there is a hotly contested political and public debate over what, if anything, should be done to reduce or reverse future warming, and how to deal with the predicted consequences.

The term 'global warming' is a specific case of the more general term 'climate change' (which can also refer to 'global cooling', such as occurs during ice ages). In principle, 'global warming' is neutral as to the causes, but in common usage, 'global warming' generally implies a human influence. However, the UNFCCC uses 'climate change' for human-caused change, and 'climate variability' for other changes [2]. Some organizations use the term 'anthropogenic climate change' for human-induced changes.


A Gas explosion is the result of a gas leak in the presence of an ignition source.
Industrial gas explosions can be prevented with the use of intrinsic safety barriers to prevent ignition.

Answer 9

Exxon Valdeze, effect is obvious
Pick any bridge or building that has co lapsed because of poor engineering, effects would be deaths if any, cost of structure, social impact-fear,inconvenience it caues, etc

Answer 10

wars,violence, all the tragedy happening everyday, climate changes for a example Tsunami.
because of these effects people are dieing everyday.