Flood Everywhere

Flood is on of natural disaster. This disaster happen almost over the world include Malaysia.

Flood in Malaysia

Heavy monsoon rains cause flood in Malaysia. Kelantan never missed from gain horrible flood because of the location of Sungai Kelantan which is nearest to Sungai Golok and when one of the water river increase, the probability to the flood occur is high.

In Malaysia, floods are normal natural disasters which happen every year during the monsoon season because of Malaysia's geographical location, flood occurs naturally of cyclic monsoon during the local tropical wet season by a heavy and regular rainfall around October to March.

Flood that happened in some of the place in Malaysia not cause of the monsoon season. Like in Southern Johor, the flood hapened because of Global Warming effect because Johor is not within the usual monsoon affected zone.

Flood in Jeddah

The tragic flood was happen in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 25 November 2009. More than 100 peoples were died and hundreds were missing. Most of the families save their selves on the roofs to run away from the rising flood waters. The water raising quickly because of the drainage system that was unable to cope with the load of water.

Most of the people around the world and Saudis think that this area is impossible to gain horrible flood because of the kand of Jeddah is low and flat near Red Sea. There are many Dry Riverbeads that direct from the hills into the Eastern areas of Jeddah.

Sadly, many of these are had been built with uncontrolled and illegal by the poorer people. A rain of high amount transmits huge amounts of water into Jeddah through the Dry Riverbeds and then through the streets.

~ The Power of Floods~

Floods are primarily natural events, it occurs when water overflows or inundates land that's normally dry, commonly is happen when the river or streams overflow their banks. Usually floods take hours or even days to develop, so it given ample time to prepare or evacuate, but the floods also generate quickly and with little warning it can be extremely dangerous. Sometimes power surges cause machinery to explode or flash floods are so strong, they can carry cars off the road and trains off the tracks.

Human activity that changes the surface of the Earth also affects the water cycle, and can cause floods. It happen under normal circumstances, soil acts like a sponge and soaks up a fair portion of rainwater, but in crowded towns and cities, rainwater flows into storm sewers and drainage ditches, and at the same times the floods can overloads them. An urban area can be flooded by an amount of rainfall that would have had no impact in a rural area.

There are two basic types of floods, the first types of floods is when the floods happen in a regular river flood, the water slowly climbs over the edges of a river. The other type is the more dangerous flood is a flash flood, it normally occurs when a wall of water quickly sweeps over an area.

For people, floods give some effect for economic, emotional,and diseases such as, in the United States, where flood mitigation and prediction is advanced, floods do about $6 billion worth of damage and kill about 140 people every year and in China's Yellow River valley, where some of the world's worst floods have occurred, millions of people have perished in floods during the last century, (www.nationalgeographic.com).

For the environmentally floods it can be given important to local ecosystem, it happen because some river floods will bring nutrient to soil, for the example the Nile River in Egypt that would floods every year and bring nutrient. The people must be having a better understanding of floods cause because, the information about floods can help you to better prepare and perhaps minimize or prevent flood damage.

How earthquake happen??

So How Do Earthquake Occur Underneath the Earth Surface??

Well, this is what happen exactly :-

~The Earth is divided into a solid core, then molten magma mantle and the crust floating on top~






~The crust is broken up into plates. Convection currents in the magma cause the plates to move in different directions~


~Most Earthquakes occur at the plate boundaries~



~Where plates converges, one plate is drawn slowly beneath the other. This takes place over thousands of years~

~Where plates collide, rock layers are forced upwards creating mountains~


~Where plates diverge, lava emerges from the mantle and cools to form new sections of crust. Diverging plate boundaries are often found underwater~


~Other plates move very slowly alongside each other. Faults or also called as Fractures are found at the edges of the plates where the crust is moving in different directions ~


~In some places the plates become locked together. Kinetic energy builds up in the locked plates~

~When the plates give, the stored energy is released in the form of an earthquake. The point of earthquake's origin beneath the surface is called the hypocentre~



~An earthquake emits its power as three waves of energy. Primary or P-waves are felt as a sudden jolt. Secondary or S-waves waves arrive a few seconds later and are felt as a more sustained side-to-side shaking~

~Surface waves radiate outwards from the epicentre - the point on the surface directly above the hypocentre - and arrive after the main P and S waves~



The main thing is how to save your life and your loves one. Here are a few tips on how to keep you and your beloved ones safely. It might be useful for those who never experienced or are from a free earthquake country.

1) Pick safe places in each room of your home and your office or school.

2) move as little as possible to reach the place that you feel safe. Most injuries happen when people try to move more than a few feet during the shaking.

3) Hang items such as pictures and mirrors away from beds, couches or places that people sit or sleep. Earthquake might caused the wall to fall on you and you might be injured.

4) If you are in a coastal area, Drop, Cover and Holds On during an earthquake and then move immediately to higher ground when the shaking stops.

5) Drop to the ground and stay there until the shaking stops.

~200 feared dead in Haiti Crumbles~

Haiti 13 Jan, about two million of people were died when the strongest eartquake which measured 7.2 on the Richter scale, virtually destroyed the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, after hitting it with 35 times the force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The quake is the most powerful to hit haiti in the 200 years. The electrical supplied was cut out and hit almost all district in Haiti. The bodies of victims neatly lined up, some covered in white sheets and some not.


Many of them are still trapped under the collapsed buildings, hoping for rescue team to save them. While others waiting for the medical, food, and water to continue their live. Aid organizations arrived from around the world to help the unfortunate Haitians,which have no home, no food, no water and no money to spend. People around the world who could feel the suffer would help them to rebuild their country by donating or act as volunteers because Haiti is not a rich country which is most Haitians are only farmers.





This image, from the commercially-operated GeoEye-1 satellite on the day after the earthquake, shows some buildings reduced to rubble. GeoEye-1 orbits 425 miles above the earth, but people show up as dark dots in the picture (http://abcnews.go.com/)

What is an Earthquake??

An earthquake happen when there is a sudden breaking and movement of large sections of tectonic plates which makes the earth shakes of the ground suddenly without early signs. It can occur at any time of the day or night.

For hundreds millions of years, the forces of the tectonic plates which formed a giant crust of the earth's surface moved slowly over, under, past and away from each other. Sometimes its move gradually. The plates continues moving and will meet the edges of the other plates. As both plates touch each other, the movement will still continue until the forces grow strong enough and released, making the plates suddenly break free and causing the ground to shake.

The shocks of earthquake could occur continuously where the smaller earthquake will follow the main shock which cause further damage to weak structures of building as well. It could happen at first hour, days or months after the main shock. But sometimes it could be an early sign of a larger earthquake to happen.

The tectonic plates are also known as the earth's rocky outermost crust. The edges of the tectonic plates are marked by faults or fractures. Most earthquakes occur along the fault lines when the plates slide past each other or collide against each other.

When the plates slides and move away or towards each other, it will send out shock waves that maybe powerful enough to :-

• open the great cracks in the ground, thrusting up cliffs and can even alter the surface of the Earth

• cause great damage as the building or bridges collapse, broken power and gas lines, electricity facilities and the telephone service.

• Sometimes could start fires, landslides, flash floods, snow avalanches, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.

Fault or fault plane = the surface where when 2 blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another.

Hypocenter = the location below the earth's surface where the earthquake starts.

Epicenter = the location on the surface of the earth directly above hypocenter.