The Effects of a Natural Disaster

By Ben Ng

Disaster is a terrible thing and it also brings many serious effects to humans. Earthquake is a kind of disaster which affects humans most in their life. Earthquake is a common disaster that is all over the world but the difference is its intensity. Some places always have earthquake but although the intensity is not very intense, the effect will also be serious. There are some effects from the earthquake:

Earthquakes will hurt or make people die and destroy their houses. When the earthquake happen, the buildings will destroy and the rocks will slide down from the mountain, and the traffic will become confused so people will be lose their house and be hurt or die buy those things. On the other hand, the hospitals will be become full by the people who were hurt because there are too many people hurt at the same time. Some emergency patients will die because they cannot get the cure at the appropriate time. Also people were hurt and cannot get enough medicine. Furthermore, people lost their house in the house in the earthquake and they need to live in the tents but the supply of tents is limited. Sometimes a few families live in one tent. If there are a lot of people living in one area, the environment will become bad in that area and the virus of diseases will spread quickly. The outbreak of epidemic diseases will happen easily. This is a very dangerous thing for humans.

Pecuniary loss will happen because of the earthquake. First, the government needs to clean the roads after earthquake because there are many rocks, pieces of wood, and the wreckage of the buildings remaining on the roads. So government needs to clean them up. Second, after cleaning the roads, the government needs to repair the roads which were broken. The roads will be rent by the earthquake ant the bridges will be destroyed by the rocks. If the government doesn’t repair them, the traffic will be confused so repair to the roads are very important. Then, the government needs to rebuild the houses. The government needs to use a billion dollars to rebuild the houses for the victims because many houses were destroyed by the earthquake. People haven’t places to live. This is a serious problem. Finally, helping the victims and supply the necessary things. The government will supply the water, food, clothes, tents, medicine, and some necessary things to the victims. Those things will cost a lot of money so I said earthquake is a pecuniary loss.

Earthquake will cause some other disasters to happen such as: tsunami and snow slide. Those are very serious disasters. Do you remember the tsunami in south Asia on Dec, 26, 2004? This tsunami killed almost 300,000 people. It was an under sea earthquake. However, the earthquake is the source of these disasters.

In conclusion, earthquakes are very serious problem for human life. It will destroy everything but nowadays we have science. It can forecast when the earthquake will come. Although we have this kind of technology, we cannot believe it completely. Anyway, the earthquake will give humans profound effects and the effects are very serious.