Author name: Rohit Shukla

A devastating dance of endogenic geomorphic forces of the planet earth: Earthquake, volcano, and tsunami

Part II:- Understanding why earthquakes tsunami and volcano occur:- PLATE TECTONICS THEORY Historically all spectacular natural phenomena like a rainbow, rising and setting of the sun on the horizon, solar and lunar eclipse, earth tremors, volcano, geysers(sulphur spring) were so awe-inspiring to the early tribal that out of the fear of the wrath of nature […]

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A devastating dance of endogenic geomorphic forces of the planet earth: Earthquake, Volcanos and Tsunamis

Part I- Introduction and key definitions The phenomena of earthquake volcanic eruptions and tsunami are the three most important geological processes which on the one hand cause enormous human and economic disaster but on the other hand are very interesting from the scientific point of view. It provides us a very useful window to study

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The causes of natural disasters and the way the energy that is produced by the shock waves propagates through the surrounding media causing destruction.

Part II- THE INTRICATE LAYERED INNER STRUCTURE OF EARTH. We take for granted the shape of our world and the position of the continents— the familiar geography that seems as eternal as the order of the planets. But this arrangement is temporary: it isn’t how the planet has been and it isn’t how it will

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The causes of natural disasters and the way the energy that is produced by the shock waves propagates through the surrounding media causing destruction.

Part- I: Early theories of the origin of the earth Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. By John Lubbock ( A scientist who coined the terms paleolithic and neolithic) In order

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Natural and man-made disasters: An introduction

Nature has a myriad of weapons to combat human arrogance. On the planet earth,  enormous energy storages exist in forms such as ocean tidal energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, seismic energy. It is important to appreciate that these energy storages are not static but dynamic i.e these energies keep transforming from one form to another

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Answer to PUBLIC HEALTH QUIZ (aPH0100)

Note: This epidemiology quiz has five questions. Each has two option one true and other false. In public health issues transmission is the passing of a pathogen causing communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a particular individual or group. Question 1:- what is the transmission mechanism of COVID 19 A- Respiratory

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