Tag: geography

Chennai possesses the largest share of 6.4% of the total population of Tamil Nadu. This is followed by Coimbatore, Vellore and Salem districts. Perambur has the least population of 0.078%.

Disaster is a sudden, calamitous and unfortunate event that brings with it great damage, loss, destruction and devastation to human life as well as property. Disasters are inevitable, we cannot do anything to prevent these but disaster preparedness is only in our hand. Disaster preparedness or disaster management activities are aimed to minimize loss of life and property in the event of disaster.

Disaster management is very important to survive in case of the natural or man-made disaster as it has huge impact on humans and environment. Disasters are inevitable, we cannot do anything to prevent these but disaster preparedness is only in our hand. Disaster preparedness or disaster management activities are aimed to minimize loss of life and property in the event of disaster.

Disaster risk management involves activities related to prevention i.e relocating exposed people and assets away from a hazard area, mitigation i.e. preventing future emergencies or minimizing their effects for instance constructing flood defences, planting trees to stabilize slopes and implementing strict land use and building construction codes, transfer i.e. it is the process of formally or informally shifting the financial consequences of particular risks from one party to another whereby a household, community, enterprise or state authority will obtain resources from the other party after a disaster occurs, financing i.e. Disaster risk analysis was born out of the financial and insurance sector's need to quantify the risk of comparatively rare high-impact natural hazard events.

Disaster management requires mitigation i.e preventing future emergencies or minimizing their effects and it includes any activities that prevent an emergency, reduce the chance of an emergency happening, or reducing the damaging effects of unavoidable emergencies. Mitigation activities take place before and after emergencies. Disaster management requires rescue, relief activities, which includes protecting people from threatened situations, relocation, providing food and water, providing temporary shelter and emergency health care.

Disaster is a sudden, calamitous and unfortunate event that brings with it great damage, loss, destruction and devastation to human life as well as property. Disaster management is very important to survive in case of natural or man-made disaster. Disaster management activities are aimed to minimize loss of life and damage in the event of disaster. Disaster management measures can help removing people and property from a threatened location by facilitating timely and effective rescue, relief and rehabilitation at the place of disaster thereby reducing loss of property, protecting people and reducing trauma among people.

It sounds incredible but it’s true that the world’s wettest town - Cherrapunji - is now suffering from a shortage of drinking water. The problem is that Cherrapunji lies atop a high limestone plateau. Rain falling on the town drains away immediately. Very little rain collection takes place, because the locals don’t like the taste of water running off rusty tin roofs. With a growth in the town population, water has to be carried up from the plains during the drier winter months.