janeris: RUSA TYPHOON 2002

Typhoon is a tropical storm over seas and the temperature for the typhoon is start is warm temperature. Typhoons increase in speed and strength as it picks up more warm air.

Rusa (meaning deer in Malaysian) Typhoon has struck South Korea and Southern Japanese island of Kyushu in late August to early September 2002. In Korea, it is known as the 2nd most powerful typhoon since Typhoon Sarah in 1959. Gang-neung, in Korea was most badly affected by the typhoon and the flood. After passing Japan and Korea, it went up to Russia bringing torrential rain and houses as well as building were destroyed. (1) The wind of the typhoon was 127miles per hour. (2) Over 2days, it rained up to 36 inches in some parts of South Korea. Gang-neung precipitation of 36inches in less than 2 days. (2)

213 people died, people were missing and even left people homeless Due to the flooding, there was 113 dead, 71 missing and people were left homeless. Hundreds of acres of farmland were destroyed, as well as buildings collapsed, railways being ripped up and 400,000people were cut off from fresh water. (1) 170,000children including 10,000 in Seoul had been infected by diseases. (8) Also some of the telecommunication networks were cut off and thousand of people didn’t have electricity. 24,000 power lines were down and 645ships were destroyed. 300,000 live stocks were dead. (6) Due to the typhoon and the torrential rain during the 2days time, there was a massive flooding as well as landslide and buildings collapsing. (2) Busan had to face additional problems due to the Asian Olympics starting soon because the sports facilities and the parts of the stadium were badly damaged. More than 17,000 houses and buildings in low areas were submerged, forcing the 27,474 residents to take shelter in public buildings. (1) After these incidents, people still live near the sea because they do fishing for their living, and its part of their life. (7)

According to the official estimation, the cost of the damaged caused would total up to about $750million. Soldiers helped the citizens clear broken furniture and damaged household goods that filled the streets. (1) Also, other organizations volunteered to help Korea recover from Rusa Typhoon. Compared to before, there are less disasters but the damages that the natural disasters caused was massive than before (80% of total destruction). (6) They have weather forecasters looking at the weather everyday, and they can see the storms that are headed to Korea. About 220 international environmental conventions have joined together. 45 conventions from Korea have joined to fight agains climate change which gives rise to unusual climate and global warming. Due to the climate change it the world, it is harder to predict the natural hazards that may occur. (7) LEDs countries will take longer in recovering and it would be hard to get help, if the location is in the mountains. On the other hand, MEDCs countries take less time recovering and they can get help straight away if some one is will to go out. Also the structure of building would be stronger and they will have more systems to prevent massive damage.

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