Earthquake

New Zealand begins Earthquake clear-up-6 September 2010- Reporter: New Zealand has declared an official state of emergency following a massive earthquake that caused extensive damage to the country's second largest city, Christchurch. The working week has begun in Christchurch but people in many parts of the city speak of an eerie quiet, with the streets still strewn with rubble and shattered glass. No buses are running and thousands of people are off work because the central business district

naturelles, « Basic Plan for Research and Development on Disaster Prevention » (déterminé par le premier Ministre en 1981 et révisé en 1993) et un plan spécifique aux séismes, le « Promotion of Research and Development on Earthquake Disaster Prevention based on the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake » déterminé en mai 1995 après le séisme de Kobe. Cette recherche est coordonnée au niveau gouvernemental par un comite interministériel de liaison pour la science et la technologie appliquée à la prévention des catastrophes

Minimizing Risk with the Right Insurance ....................... 17 Chapter Three: How to Know Even More about Properties than the Inspectors You Hire........................................................... 28 Chapter Four: Mold, Bugs, Floods Earthquakes . . . Unpleasant Risks You Need to Understand........................................................... 57 Chapter Five: Avoiding the Perils of Risky Financing ............................ 73 Special Bonus Chapter: Four Wealth-Preserving Secrets

developing early warning systems and hazard mapping; improving access to information for advocacy and decision making and reducing urban earthquake risk reduction. U N D P I N I R A N : 4 0 Y E A R S O F D E V E LO PM E N T PA R T N E R S H I P 13 Natural Disaster Reduction and Recovery UNDP’s support in the aftermath of the Bam earthquake The devastating earthquake that struck the south eastern city of Bam on 26 December 2003, killed more than 32,000 and left about 75,000 homeless. In response

tard. Consulté le 2 octobre, 2010, de http://www.unicef.lu/node/459 Auteur inconnu. (11 février, 2010). Haiti: Psychological Effects of the Earthquake. Consulté le 5 décembre 2010, de http://repeatingislands.com/2010/02/11/haiti-psychological-effects-of-the-earthquake/ Bassett, L. (juin, 2010). Nutrition Security in Haiti: Pre- and Post Earthquake Conditions and the Way Forward. En breve, 157, Consulté le 5 décembre 2010, de http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLAC/Resources/257803-1269390034020/EnBreve_157_English_Web

nombre possible de cas. La mission ionosphérique DEMETER a été conçue pour pouvoir répondre à ce problème en recueillant un maximum d‟information au-dessus des régions séismiques. DEMETER (Detection of Electro-Magnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions) est le premier projet de la filière micro-satellite du CNES. Le lancement a eu lieu le 29 Juin 2004. Le satellite a été placé sur une orbite polaire, héliosynchrone, circulaire d‟altitude 710 km. La mission scientifique a pour but : 1)

|Elbe est une île. | |A disaster |Un désastre | |An earthquake |Un tremblement de terre | |A hurricane |un ouragan, une tornade

world more fragile and in particular the business through the financial system. The various economic crises which succeed one another all over the world also engender significant modifications. Recently, the crises of the Arabic world and the earthquake in Japan had world economic repercussions: a fall of the NIKKEI of more than 10 % during the events in Japan, considerable human and material losses for the 3rd world power which is going to need a lot of time to be back in the markets. Those desaster

Vocabulaire : Anglais Examen de Noël 2014 Four disasters ; 1) the lift  l’ascenseur the roof  le toit to rescue  sauver stair  escalier earthquake  tremblement de terre volcanic eruption  éruption volcanique fire  incendie plane crash  accident d’avion to collapse  s’écrouler skyscraper  gras de ciel to shout/scream  crier to hurry  se précipiter thick  épais to manage  arriver à, se débrouiller drowing  se noyer the fire-alarm  l’avertisseur d’incendie

Publications pertinentes * Building the Akashi, dans "Bridge Design & Engineering", novembre 1997, n. 9 v. 3; pp. 68 * Paradox defined, dans "Bridge Design & Engineering", novembre 1997, n. 9 v. 3; pp. 60-66 * The great Hanshin earthquake, dans "Bridge Design & Engineering", novembre 1997, n. 9 v. 3; pp. 67 * Brühwiler, Eugen Ten Years of Structural Engineering International, dans "Structural Engineering International", février 2001, n. 1 v. 11 * Chen, Wai-Fah &