Monitoring Our Home Planet
Robert Aquilone
Sharon Marusiak
Contemporary Applications of the Sciences
3/25/2015
Abstract
In this paper I will discuss the impact of natural disasters on the planet. We will examine the effects of possible natural disasters on: people, property, politics, and how prepared we are to evade and be aware of the future natural disasters.
Monitoring Our Home Planet
Natural Disaster has a majority significant impact on the residents that subsist on the Earth planet. A natural disaster can have the most effect on the planet from natural processes of the world these instances consist of tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes, and other geologic events. The event makes the people in that area to rally together to overcome. That is merely the immediate effect that a natural disaster has on the residents of Earth.
There are natural catastrophes can have some warning signs prior to their occurring. Then there are also natural catastrophes that take place with no forewarning signs. Volcanic eruptions, Earthquakes, and tsunamis are simply three natural disasters that will strike with no forewarning.
To try to stop these events from occurring is impossible view of the fact that we actual don’t know when one will take place. Remote monitoring senses like satellites are precise in monitoring prospective natural disasters. Satellites give us current accurate instant data over huge areas anyplace in the world. When a catastrophe strikes, remote monitoring is usually the only means to see what is going on the earth (Lewis, 2009). Satellites are collecting information; however there are two kinds of satellites that are gathering the information.
Satellites in a polar orbit are simply assemble data above the same point of time once every few number of days. Satellites in a geostationary orbit are placed at a great elevated altitude. They track the Earth as it revolves on its axis, resulting in a stationary view over the ground and observing the entire earth underneath it (Lewis, 2009). The data assembled by these satellites supervise the natural catastrophes and aiding in reducing the destruction and deaths that natural disaster creates.
A volcano can be a mountain like construction or a inclined hill that opens to a pool molten rock underneath the earth surface. When a crack in the earth’s surface lets molten rock to come up from the core of earth. Eruptions of Volcanic can be in blasts, hot ash flows, lava flows, avalanches, mudslides, falling floods and ash. These eruptions can also cause flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, rock falls and mudflows. Some of the past of volcanic mountains are Mount Fuji, Mount St. Helens and Pinatubo. (Kusky, 2010).
Volcanoes can also be where interior plates of crust's converge, e.g., in the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and the East African Rift and in North America’s Rio Grande Rift. This is a kind of volcanism "plate hypothesis". Volcanism away plate convergence is known as mantle plumes. These "hotspots", for instance Hawaii, are assumed to occur from upwelling magma from the core–mantle, 3,000 km in the Earth. Volcanoes are typically produced where two tectonic plates glide with one another.
Scientists typically deem volcanos to be likely to erupt or erupting, signs of turbulence for like strange earthquake activity or major emissions of gas. The majority scientists list a volcano to be active if it has exploded within the last 10,000 years. The majority volcanoes are positioned on the Pacific Ring of Fire. An expected 500 million people live close to active volcanoes. in the last few decades, researchers have had huge progress in scientific the knowledge of volcanic phenomena like lateral blasts, pyroclastic surges, and mudflows. On the other hand, progress has not been great in the use of this information, for instance notifying the public of the possibility of eruptions or in warning and detection systems of a dangerous volcanic events.
