Natural disasters.doc

Natural disasters，how can we protect ourselves？ Abstract: natural disaster refer to the natural phenomenon which have a harmful effects on human survival and human living environment. they were caused by natural variation and caused much damage to human being，which not only took away the lives of many people but also caused much economic losses. Natural disasters have many types and are divided into many parts,and always occur at an unsure time and in an unsure place , all these make it difficult for us to predict and prevent.in addition. nowadays, many people lack the awareness of the natural disasters and neglect them. which make the disasters so harmful to us. So we must learn to survive the disasters.Keywords: damage, neglect, protect, awareness,1. IntroductionIn the world, at every time, there are some places being struck by natural disasters , it is unavoidable, unpredictable, but can be less harmful if we take proper measures.The earthquake of wenchuan which occurred in May 12,2008 shocked the whole world. on that day, lots of people died, countless losses were caused, all over china prayed for it，fortunately with the help from other places, we beated the disasters ,but unfortunately, many people left forever. Looking back to the earthquake, we could learn that many people lack the commen sense about fleeing for their lives. Then the problem came, do you learn the natural disasters, and do you know how can we rescue ourselves from disasters？2. Research methodsIn order to research for some information about whether people learn about the natural disasters and whether people has the awareness of coping with the sudden disasters , we took a series of research methods, including interviewing some passenagers as well as some students about some problems about what disasters they know and how he would flee from them, and uploading a questionnaire into the website which involves the commen sense of some disasters and their opinion about natural disasters. Finally, we received many answers and had a clear recognition of it.Besides, we researched much information by surfing the internet and looked through many different disasters happened in the past, then we analysed the reasons about different statistical of total injuries and death in different regions ,finally we made a summary about it3. Peoples awareness of natural disasters and analysis of different losses3.1-lacking the awareness of natural disastersIn our world, everyday some places might being struck by natural disasters, but less people are concerned about it .even if it may happen in a close place, but after that we also take it out of our mind. As the information below we researched show.Through the interview, we find that about 80 percent of people only know some common natural disasters, the rest can tell most possible disasters. However, when it comes to the sign of some disasters, only 30 to 40 percent of people know it ,most people dont know the sign.The same as interview, questionnaires also tell us the truth of peoples lacking awareness of natural disasters. in it, only a minority of people can really finish the questionnaire.3.2-lacking the ability to survive As the saying goes ,be prepared for the danger in the time of peace. Thats are right. you can expect that everything will go well ,disaster will never occur to you, which is unrealistic, but you can protect yourselves when it happened. So to master a ability to survive is important. But opposite to it, less people have the ability.By the questionnaire, when people talked about the surviving the disasters, almost all of them answer it by their imagination , know nothing about the valid measures and all kinds of principles of coping with the emergency . in spite of university students who received high education , they keep consistent with the others.3.3-the reason for less mortality in some regionsAlthough some places also has natural disasters , but the people who died in the disasters is very few . why? We analysed these regions and found some similarity.By our analysis, we found some country such as japan, have low mortality . there are many reasons .the major reason is that people there have high awareness of protecting themselves from being hurt due to the frequent earthquake. the government s support and social concern is also the primary reason. Resembling the japan, other countries which has low mortality also attach much importance to natural disasters, they focused on the teenagers and taught them how to protect themselves by means of demonstration and so on.4. Discussion About how to protect ourselves for citizens in our country, we have a heated discussion. some people think that we must take many measures to enhance the peoples awareness of coping with natural disasters. but on the contrary , some people think it is unnecessary because in china less regions will have natural disasters, and we only need to popularize the common sense of natural disasters. As far as Im concerned, I think our country should add more attention to it, because we have drawn the lessons of the wenchuan earthquake, so to ensure the less losses and low mortality, raizing the citizens ability to cope with the disasters is important.5. ConclusionAccording to the research, we now draw a conclusion.At first, our citizens have little awareness of natural disasters and dont have the ability to cope with emergency in disasters.The second, our school, society , country pay little attention to developing the teenagers ability to cope with the disaster