Tsunamis are series of tidal waves; it can also be called a tsunami wave train. Tsunami’s leave huge marks back. People struggle living, their homes get destroyed and they don’t have food. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake had a huge effect on people and the city. It occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, December 26, 2004, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. More than 230,000 people were dead by the first day of this tragedy. This was the sixth deadliest tsunami in recorded history. Science could be applied to prevent the damages of tsunami. Scientist could use physics. The best way to apply physics is to build strong buildings so the waves wouldn’t destroy the buildings. No matter how strong the buildings are, people would still be in risk. So they should be informed by the news. The news could inform the people by using warning systems that detect the tsunami before it comes. Building stronger buildings and detecting the tsunami before would help prevent the damages of tsunami.
The buildings could be made stronger by having a solid base. When the bottom of the building is strong the rest of it would also get the strength from there. If it doesn’t have a solid base the building would collapse no matter how strong the rest of it is. During tsunami the buildings would stay in shape and wouldn’t collapse. After tsunami the damages would be less on a strong building than a weak building. But there are limitations to building strong buildings. The water could get in the building and people could drown. Also water could react with some chemicals if the building had a science class or lab in it and this could possibly cause explosions. So this method has good sides but has limitations to what it prevents.
Tsunami could be detected by alarms and machines which see any volcanoes or earthquakes. When the scientists detect an earthquake by using these monitors and detecting machines they could inform the people. The people could hear this by the newspaper or from television. Not everyone has access to television and internet this could be a limitation to the method. This could also take so much time and couldn’t inform the people at time. Also people don’t have somewhere to go in a case of emergency in that panic. And not everyone owns a car to drive away. Informing people could be something bad because they would panic and this could make everything harder.
Building these strong buildings could cost a lot. Since these countries had tsunami before they had to pay to cover the damage. This could be connected with economics because if the country doesn’t have the money to builds strong buildings they won’t be able to prevent tsunami. Countries such as India and Indonesia aren’t as rich as other countries in Europe or the States. To pay for the buildings the people would have to pay taxes and the country’s people would be poor. Damages of the tsunami could affect the country in politics and the country would become weaker because of tsunami. This could end up in crises and less people would be working. The income and outcome of the country would be less.
Tsunami also has moral effects on people. The effects are seen before and after tsunami. Before tsunami they start to panic and think that they will die. Most moral effects are on the people which cannot drive away from tsunami. After the tsunami some people do survive and seeing that view of dead people and destroyed buildings is not very nice. Imagining that it could be your own family is even worse. All of your memories are in your house and your belongings. When they are gone it affects a person morally. It is very hard to recover from an accident like that.
Science could be used to prevent the damages of the tsunami. Buildings and detectors sure prevent some of the damages but has limitations. These methods could be used but they cannot solve every problem that the tsunami makes. Nobody can erase the damage but it could be prevented by using similar methods to these. Everything that could be done to come against the damages of the tsunami has limitations and effects on people. Time could help the country become as strong as it used to be. By the time it develops the country and its people will have a hard time making money and living but they have no choice. Other countries would help them after such accident but even those are limited.
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