The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has told computer users to be wary of potential e-mail scams, as well as fake anti-virus and phishing attacks regarding the Japan earthquake and the tsunami disasters.
The Japanese maker of the Prius hybrid and Camry sedan reclaimed its crown as world's top automaker last year, after losing it to GM a year earlier, when it was battered by the tsunami and quake disasters in northeastern Japan.
He said the UK earlier this year chaired the Disaster Monitoring Committee which ensured satellite images were immediately available after the tsunami in Japan or disasters elsewhere in the world.
It was recommended that school safety plan should be firmly adopted as an important disaster risk reduction measure in order to keep the children and community safe in case of floods, earthquake, tsunami and other natural disasters.
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan were natural disasters with wide spread economic consequences for both Japan and the global economy.
Natural disasters like the March tsunami off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, underscore the importance of investing in disaster risk preparedness and training local populations.
Natural disasters such as earthquake, tsunami, flooding and drought command our attention regularly (and remind us that sometimes human actions have made their effects worse).
The long-term impact on the nuclear power industry is yet to be seen, but what is clear is that natural disasters like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have profound effects on governments and on businesses, directly or indirectly.
Elhami, co-founder of GISCorps, said that since 2004, the organization's volunteers have responded to disasters such as the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, as well as efforts to provide humanitarian relief, sustainable development, economic development, health, and education in all parts of the world.
Natural disasters ranging from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami to Hurricane Sandy have demonstrated the destruction that nature can wreak.
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