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My Presentation 123456
My Presentation 123456
Natural disasters are naturally occurring destructive incidents, without the meditation of man, causing harm to human lives, property,
environment and economy.
Some of the natural disasters that affect Sri Lanka are,
1.Drought
2.Flood
3.Landslide
4.Lightning and thundering
Drought
Long term decrease of rain fall, due to the changes of the
pattern of the rain fall is known as drought.
Deforestation influences the water cycle directly or indirectly. Convectional rains and
rain falls are affected by this.
Decrease of water retention capacity in soil and accelerated soil erosion are the
results of irregular cultivation of crops. Thus, water capacity of reservoirs decrease ,
resulting spillage.
Wastage of water by irregular and over use is a reason for drought.
Natural causes
.Change of timely monsoon winds
because
the change of water currents
.Dry winds
.EL-NINO phenomenon .Change of
rain fall
pattern Scarcity of
.Decrease of
water Drought
Human activities rain fall
.Irregular water usage
.Irregular soil usage
.Deforestation
water
agriculture Non
Ground
ground
Influence
of Soil
Health drought
Energy
Forest
Drought disaster management
2.Instantaneous floods
This situation occurs due to the blockage of water drainage systems in urban
areas.
.Loss of lives
.Failure of power supply
.Damage to houses, properties and roads
.Spread communicable diseases after floods due to contamination of
water source
Pre-signs of landslide
1. Depressions on earth.
2.Appearing new water springs.
3.Animals showing abnormal behaviors.
4.Appearing cracks on buildings.
5. Sudden leaking of muddy water on slopes .
6. Dying or slanting of trees on slopes.
Management of landslide
. Evacuating people from the areas subjected to landslide earlier and
let the areas be stabilized.
.bringing down water using pipe lines when it is collected in higher
level of a hill.
.Diging conteur ditches to drain rain water down and slope without
letting it soaking in to soil.
Lightning and thundering
Positive charges collect in the top layers of the clouds and the negative charges collect
in the bottom layer of the clouds. Positive charges generated on the earth, right below
the cloud. When the amounts of chargers reach a certain level, an electrical discharge
occurs. It is known as thundering and lightning.
According to the way of electrical discharge, there are three types of lightning,
1.Earth lighting
An electrical discharge that transfer from a cloud to earth.
2.cloud lightning
An electric discharge that transfer through the cloud or between two clouds.
3.Air lightning
An electric discharge that transfer from a cloud in to air .
Tall trees and buildings are easily subjected to the hazard lightning. The resaon for this
is that tall places provide the shortest path of or the discharge of lightning from the
clouds.