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    The poem describes the devastation of a young girl whose entire world is destroyed by a natural disaster like a tsunami. She loses her family and home and is left alone and vulnerable in the aftermath. The article explains how tsunamis are generated by earthquakes and how scientists at tsunami warning centers analyze data from tide gauges to warn coastal areas if waves over 3 feet are expected to impact inhabited coastlines. The excerpt is a video that further illustrates how tsunamis are formed.

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    The poem describes the devastation of a young girl whose entire world is destroyed by a natural disaster like a tsunami. She loses her family and home and is left alone and vulnerable in the aftermath. The article explains how tsunamis are generated by earthquakes and how scientists at tsunami warning centers analyze data from tide gauges to warn coastal areas if waves over 3 feet are expected to impact inhabited coastlines. The excerpt is a video that further illustrates how tsunamis are formed.

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    Chelsea Ali

    TOPIC: NATURAL DISASTERS


    TITLE: THE CRASHING TIDAL WAVE

    POEM

    What a dreadful catastrophe


    Took away the last breadth of thousands
    Without giving a single moment
    In a second, world is changed
    Dilapidated and collapsed so is she
    The devastating disaster left her with no choice
    But to be homeless, crippled and vulnerable,
    Merely an orphan in this big planet
    Now she won, t be lying in her mother's lap
    Nor her father will be there to pat her
    Her siblings won't be around her to chase
    Humanity is bereaved of Almighty 's bliss
    She is all alone in this
    Naked unclad world.
    Deprived of a beautiful childhood
    Victimized in profanity
    Bereft of affectionate shelter
    Unshielded in crisis
    Dangling in a dilemma to live or to die
    Enigma has engulfed her
    The world around her has collapsed in no time
    Not a single mortal soul to attend her relentless cry
    Solitude has engrossed her with frightful thoughts
    Though our civilization is at its peak
    Android has tamed the resources of nature
    But lost its glory to the whims of nature.
    Catastrophe has tarnished the pride of techno civilization.
    ARTICLE

    A tsunami is a series of waves 10 to 20 minutes apart generated by the heave and dip of the sea
    floor. As soon as the earthquake happens, tsunami waves begin to spread out at the speed of a jet
    liner, but are already being analyzed and queries sent to tide stations near the disturbance. Since
    the speed of the tsunami waves can be easily calculated by knowing the depth of the ocean path
    they are crossing, the scientists at PTWC can check the observing stations at the estimated time
    of arrival of the first waves. The reports and data from the gauges are evaluated with
    consideration for the earthquake’s magnitude and depth, the history of tsunamis from that area,
    and the proximity to settled coastlines. In a few minutes, the scientists in charge must make a
    difficult decision involving many human lives and millions of dollars, and it must be a
    “YES/NO” decision. If they expect waves over one meter (three feet) high to impact an inhabited
    coast, they will advise the civil authorities in that area; it is up to them to handle the evacuation
    of “low-lying areas”. Because the waves travel about 500 miles an hour, they then advance the
    warning across the ocean to stay three or four hours ahead of the first wave, while evaluating the
    impact on the areas already affected to verify if the warning must be continued and expanded.
    EXCERPT

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    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Poem:
    Sinha. S. 2013, July 14. <https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tsunami-38/>

    Article:
    Curtis. G. 2019. <http://tsunami.org/article-tsunami-and-science/>

    Excerpt:
    GBH. 2021. < https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvkq.vid.earth.tsunami/birth-of-a-
    tsunami/>

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