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Final Papau New Guinea Blog

The main natural disasters of Papau New Guinea, are Earthuakes, volcanic erupons. landslides, droughts. In fact Papau New Guinea, ranks among the top 6 countries for highest percentage of population exposed to Earthquakes hazards. I think Papau New Guinea should focus most on the issues of Earthquakes. An I also believe Papau New Guinea should focus on the issue of droughts. The reason I say this. Is because in terms of natural disasters I think the most severe to the people of Papau New Guinea. Are like droughts, and Earthquakes. Like for example as recently from 2015-2016 Papau New Guinea suffered droughts, which affected 40 percent of the population. Which left nearly a half of million of people in Papau New Guinea with food shortages. The severe drought led to the deah of a lot of crops, and livestock. An required a lot of international aid. I also wrote Papau New Guinea should focus on Earthquakes. It is because, like as of recently 2018, Earthuake in Papau New Guinea, ...
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Papau New Guinea Coastal Problemss

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                     The most common coastal problem related to Papau New Guinea is coastal flooding, erosing, rising sea levels. One region that sufers alot because of this in Papau New guinea is  new Ireland Province north of mainland Papua New Guinea which is surrounded by the Bismarck Sea , with over 200,000 people.   wD Due to rising sea levels. DwM        Many people want to move out of that area of Papau New Guinea.     Solutions to Papau New Guinea coastal erosion problems, could be building sea walls. Papau New Guinea could also build tidal barriers, breakwalter tubes. Papau New Guinea can also move people out of coastal hazard areas who want to move out. Papau New Guinea can  also try lad reclaimation. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284190163_Protecting_against_coastal_hazards_in_Manus_and_New_Ireland_provinces_Papua_New_Guinea_An_assessment_of_present_a...
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Papau New Guinea extreme weather events

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 In papua new guinea, severe drought caused by strong el niño event in 2015–2016 affected about 40% of the population, with almost half a million people experiencing food shortages.  When Papau New Guinea expereinced food shortages the goverment asked for international help which they got. The severe drought led to the death of alot of crops and live stock. Papau New Guinea farming industries took a major hit with hundreds of millions dollars of damages. The Goverment incitedpolicy to counter the effects of drought such as building ground water tunnels. An growing more trees, and putting regulations to fight pollution. Because of the dorught, many people had foor shortages. Which required donatons of food and aid to be fed. An Papau New Guinea is trying to make their country more developed so they don't have to worry about drought aas much hopefully. https://www.intechopen.com/books/drought-detection-and-solutions/climate-risk-and-early-warning-systems-crews-for-papua-new-guin...
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Papau New Guinea landside Blog # 6

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  Landsides in Papua New Guinea costs over 400 million dollar in damages annually. A recent landslide in Papua New Guinea killed 10 people, an affected over 1,000 people. One of the largest landsides of  the last during of the last 2 decades happened in Papua New Guinea which killed at last 74 people. Approximately 1.8 cubic kilometers of mountain collapsed, leaving a scar 1600 m high. The debris ran out over a distance of 6.5 km, covering an area of over 11 square kilometers. The estimated velocity is up to 180 km/hour. Landslides happen in Papua New Guinea often.  It is steep terrain, earthquakes and aftershocks plus recent seasonal rains have created an environment that is prone to collapse. Also in Papua New Guinea there's a lot of water in the soil, which increases during monsoon season. Which causes liquification of the soil which can lead to landslides. https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2020/03/24/tendepo/ https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2008/04/25/updated-25...
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Papau New Guinea Blog 5

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                                                   In Papau New Guinea their are 94 volcanoes, Most of the  volcanos are located in New Guinea with 28, though New Britain Island has 27 volcanoes. Their are several ways to avoid volcanic erutions, simply live in an area with no active volcanoes, around, and if you can't do that good bye, just kidding. Ways to avoid the danger of Mr. Volcanoes  is forecasting, when the volcanoes will erupt Earthquake recording using seismographs,    Studying picture of volcanoes taken from satellite in space, or aircraft, or from ground. Making measurements of gases coming out of volcanoes, esc An using volcanic alert codes whose levels of alert constantly change non erupt volcano green, active volcanoes orange yellow. Papau New Guinea Hazard maps show 4 volcanoes to be above normal ...
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Papau New Guinea blog 4

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  Papau New Guinea is highly vulnerable,  to natural hazards particularly earthquakes, volcanos, and tsunamis. Papau New Guinea has 77 volcanoes, of which 20 are active.  It is one of the most seismatically complex regions on average with over 100 earthqaukes, each year with a magnitude of 5 and over. The country is also prone to Tsunamis having encountered over 90 Tsunamis since 1768. Thousands of lives were lost in the devastating 1998 tsunami, and close to 10,000 people were displaced from their homes. Papau New Guinea accounted for 25 percent of all natural disasters that occured in pacific that occured between 1950 and 2008.     Preparing for Tsunamis, and Earthquakes in Papau New Guinea, Geoscience Australia will develop a Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment for PNG to understand the frequency and likelihood of tsunamis occurring, so local emergency managers can plan and reduce the threat of tsunamis in their communities. Using this assessment, high ri...
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Papau New Guinea Blog #3

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  Papau New Guinea is located in the ring of fire at the collision point of several tectonic plates. Papau New Guinea is one of the most disaster prone areas in the pacific accounting for 25 percent of all natural disasters in the Pacific. Papau New Guinea is ranked in the top 6 of countries in population exposed in Earthquke rank behind the Philippines, and Indonesia. Papau New Guinea experiences over 100 earthquakes every year with magnitude of over 5.  Papua New Guinea experiences a high rate of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, with 64 quakes of a magnitude of 6.0 or larger – eight of which were 7.0 or larger – hitting within 250km  in the past 50 years. The island nation lies along the “Ring of Fire”, a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s seismic activity occurs. Solutions to the earthquake problem of Papau New Guinea, it is regoized that houses, buildings and infrastructure are not built to wisthand Earthquakes in Papau New Guine...
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