Natural Disaster or Earthquake

Natural Disaster or Earthquake
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(04, April, 2011)
Natural Disaster or Earthquake
Introduction
Natural Disasters are a common occurrence that affects the lives and livelihood of the human beings and animals in a specific region. There are various forms of natural disasters that are commonly known and noted as the most notorious forms that affects the humans. Some of these includes Tsunamis, Floods, Earthquakes, Volcanic eruptions, HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster" \l "Blizzards"
Blizzards, Cyclonic storms, Droughts, Hailstorms, Heat waves, Tornadoes, Avalanches amongst other forms that are as a result of natural or man made.
This assignment highlights on the extent to which the tsunami that occurred in Fukushima, Japan affected the organizations and the society that lives around the region and the entire country. The paper also aims at taking a critical look on the risk management failures that resulted to the disaster having a greater magnitude it had. The paper also takes a look on the corrective measures that would be used in order to ensure that the numbers of deaths and destruction of property as a result of the earthquake /tsunami. It also go to the point of highlighting on some short / long term problems that were faced by the organization and the society in the region. In addition, the paper also checks on some possible solutions and preventive measures that the organization and society should take in consideration so as to reduce the impacts or the likelihood of the occurrence of hazardous effects in the future.
The Fukushima, Japan earthquake/ tsunami occurrence
Japan is an island found in Eastern Asia, it is located in the Pacific Ocean. This country neighbors China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia. In the year 2011 march 11, the country faced one of the most tragic natural disasters that it had ever encountered in its history. The news on the Japan earthquake / tsunami has hit both the local and international media. This natural disaster came to be known as the “2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami” (AFP, 2011). It had a magnitude of 9.0 undersea and that thrust sent the water off the shore of the Japan coast; thus destructing a lot of property and killing many people as some others where about isn’t clearly known as other tens of thousands are left homeless with no food and shelter. With this having occurred in Japan, the Japanese government has officially named this tsunami as a natural disaster and the government appeals to the other governments and well wishers to help the country and its citizens to overcome these negative results of the tsunami / earthquake. This is because there is a large number of affected people and a lot of destruction of property. Another vital problem has also occurred in Japan that is the destruction of the Tōkai nuclear power stations, and the nuclear plant is leaking out poisonous emissions that pose greater danger to the people living around the plant; thus resulting to the eviction of close to 200,000 people from their homes this is as a result of the fear of the contamination that the gas emissions will have on them incase of any contact with them.
Definition of the term natural disaster
A natural disaster is a natural calamity that affects the normal way in which the society or an organization operates. This is because it exposes the society and organization to negative consequences, which includes economical constrains, environmental degradation and loss of human lives or displacement of the humans. In most cases they occur without informing the people that they are most likely to occur, but the people just rely on predictions to detect there occurrence.
The cases of the Failures encountered in the Japan earthquake /tsunami
The Japan earthquake/ tsunami were caused as a result of the natural disaster; there are also some human factors that resulted to the increase the numbers deaths of the Japanese as a result of the tsunami/ earthquake.
The earthquake/ tsunami managed to claim the deaths of a greater number of people in Japan despite the country having the biggest tsunami barriers and the most sophisticated early earthquake -warning system in the whole world. One of the main indications of risk management failure in the Japans’ March 11 earthquake was the failures of the earthquake forecast systems. Thus, this was the greatest reason why the earthquake got the people unaware thus claiming the lives of many Japanese citizens (Cyranoski, 2011). According to a report that was released in the month of March just after the earthquake; the report contained hazard map that indicated the different ways in which the country offshore regions were divided into 5 different regions and at the same time a probability of the likelihood of each regions earthquake occurrence indicated in each region. This is after considering the recent cases of earthquake that has occurred in these regions; thus the region that the earth quake occurred was given a very less probability of encountering an earthquake as low as 30-40% while other regions were subjected to an estimate of 60-70% of an earthquakes attack in the place. This made the earthquake officials concentrate on the regions with the highest percentage of earthquake occurrence (Hampton, 2011). Thus shifting there concentration from the once which recorded the...