Good day students! Last week's topic in SE was recycling. We learned that it is very important to recycle for environmental sustainability. The more we recycle, the better we can do for the health of the earth. Your assignment was to design your own recycling center. We will have a look at your recycling centers in the upcoming class.
This week's topic will be natural disasters. Natural disasters come from the natural movement and are common occurrences throughout the world. Although they are natural, they can be large scale, and therefore, devastating to human life and habitats. Unfortunately, there is no way to predict natural disasters at this time. We sometimes just feel the movement of the earth in an earthquake, strong winds blow in a typhoon, or molten lava jetting out in a volcano blast. Once we get to the point of being able to predict natural disasters we may be better off. Until then, we may just have to rebuild and try to get back to life as normal after a natural disaster.
The whole world knows about the earthquakes Japan experienced in April of this year. These quakes were unusual because there were two, not just one, as is what usually happens. This was very unusual, but in fact, scientists were aware of the large faults under Kyushu. Of course, as we cannot predict disasters, it was very difficult to know what to do.
Just around an hour before writing this today, at about 7:00 AM as I was waking up, there was another small temblor. I sat up and waited as I usually do, ready to run, and the quake finally subsided, but you never know. What if it were to have kept on going?
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