Tsunami Essay

To our knowledge Earth is the only inhabited place in the atmosphere but yet we choose to forget that fact when we destroy the nature around us. The man kind age became a factor to earth as technology developed and the industries placed around our earth caused severe consequences, as gases started to raise into our atmosphere forming global warming. Global warming did not only cause weather disturbances it also awakened many volcanoes and increased frequency occurrence of strong earthquakes, which then the earthquakes waves traveled into the ocean forming big waves called Tsunamis 

A tsunami is a larger, greater and stronger wave then a normal one and is considered one of the biggest natural disasters along with earthquake, which as i wrote above can sometimes be capable of forming tsunamis. They are destructive forces which occur because of: Global warming and the melting of an ice pack/glaciers. To form a picture in your mind just try to think of taking a rock and throwing it in a tub of water the water will rise and form a circle and expending it making it even bigger and bigger all the way until it no longer resembles a circle and the waves just travel across the water. It can also be formed by other natural disasters, because for a wave to form their needs to be a disturbance of some sort and many natural disasters make disturbances. Or it can form by the collision of tectonic plates which means that the seafloor changes in a way that one part of the sea floor goes over the other one making the water rise up high. This can also be caused by a landslide.

The affects of an tsunami depends on its strength and hight. The chances are that if there is an strong earthquake in a city thats close to the sea that the damage might be very big and sever such as the one that happened in Japan last year. If the earthquake or anything else that triggered the tsunami didn't have much power the wave as well wouldn't have much force to apply and its hight would be smaller. Some of the effects of a big tsunami are death (the most tragic one to me) destruction and damage, injuries, physiological problems for the region and the loss of money. And most of the time if the tsunami was strong enough to demolish objects such as building all that waist will be heading to the ocean when the water passes through the town. What people don't think about is how a tsunami isn't only dreadful when it strikes (thats the worst time because of the deaths and hunger) but its also dreadful for a many more years before the whole town, city or country is picked up again and recovers some of their buildings and materials.

In recant years by monitoring the activity under water we could see the patterns and predict any possible tsunami that are coming our way. By using this tool it increases our chance of surviving a tsunami by a lot. Sometimes the tsunami appears so suddenly that scientist can no see it therefore you still have chance to survive if your quick or notice some of the patterns the sea goes through before there is an tsunami. Of course not any piece of equipment made by men out there 100% reliable, they always have some sort of wholes in them. 

A warning system for tsunamis consists of two equally important components, one of which i mentioned above, which is actually looking at the radar and seeing if there is an tsunami. And the second is starting the alarm and evacuating people to safety. Now for the warning systom there are also two different kinds. The first one is International and the second regional. After that then the data observes the sea level hight seeing how fierce the tsunami is.

To conclude this essay u would just like to add that tsunamis are dangerous natural forces and have to be taken seriously if to big. Even with a warning system if your living by the water it wouldn't hurt once in a while to check up and see the situation.