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Scientific speciality / seismology

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http://plateboundary.rice.edu/downloads.html

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Scientific speciality / seismology

 

Earthquake which can cause tsunami as well.  We can see that the strongest are located near Japan, Indonesia, and Andes. Mainly earthquakes happen where different plates crash. You can see that in the image, where the red dots occur.

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Tropical Depression

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http://discovermagazine.com/2007/sep/map-where-do-hurricanes-do-the-most-damage/

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Tropical Depression

Repartition of Tropical depression in the world, we can see the most impacted area like Japan or the Gulf of Mexico. The map shows the past 150 years of hurricanes on earth until 2005. As you can see, the most powerful hurricanes of category five appear in the area around Japan. This is due to the high sea temperature in this region

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Pennies for Peace

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Pennies for Peace

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Pennies for Peace

Money is raised a penny at a time to support the soft costs of education.

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Number of drought disasters as recorded by EMDAT (1974-2004)

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http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/maps/v.php?id=10600

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Number of drought disasters as recorded by EMDAT (1974-2004)

Map of drought repartition were we can see that Africa, India, United states, Australia are the most affected by drought. For example Africa was exposed in some parts to up to nine droughts in the time span, which influenced local people and moreover also the major income like agriculture (e.g., crops don’t get enough water).

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Peace Corps

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Peace Corps

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Peace Corps

This is a volunteer organization that works globally.

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natural disasters in European Economic Area member countries 1980 to 2009

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http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/natural-disasters-in-eea-member

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natural disasters in European Economic Area member countries 1980 to 2009

Increase of natural disasters in Europe (European Economic Area) during the same period.  In average, there seem to me more meteorological as well as hydrological events. This can be for example floods or storms. 

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Natural disasters inthe United States, 1980 - 2008

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http://www.desmogblog.com/insurance-giant-says-natural-disasters-becoming-more-frequent

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Natural disasters inthe United States, 1980 - 2008

Evolution of natural disasters in the United States about 1980 to 2008. The number of events more than doubled since 1980. We can see that the Meteorological and climatological disasters are maybe coordinate with the climate change. This disasters are for example storms, which is shown in green, or extreme temperatures, which is shown in yellow.

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International Day of Peace

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United Nations

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International Day of Peace

International Day of Peace occurs annually on September 21. Many countries hold a temporary ceasefire on this day.

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