The effects of natural disaster such as an earthquake or hurricane

A natural disaster is an outcome that is not man-made and causes damage such as flood, typhoon, hurricane, earthquake, etc. There are a lot of countries in the world that have been struck natural disasters. In January, 12, 2010 there was a big earthquake on record in history that hit Haiti. Millions of people lost their lives and many more have not been found as a result of this disaster. Haiti is currently faced with a lot of problems because the country lost if not damaged everything that is of value for example infrastructure, people, animals and all building. There are several main bad effects of earthquake such as lost infrastructures, lost in human resource and natural resource.

First and foremost, as the result of the earthquake, Haiti lost infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, shopping malls, roads, buildings and telecommunication. When an earthquake occurs, everything in that place will get destroyed by the strength of the earth shake, houses housing structures regardless of whether there are bungalows or skyscrapers will crumble to the ground unless if reinforcements were used to build that structure. Roads, markets, hospitals and school are really important for the human resource but everything was destroyed thus the country lacks proper modes of transport and facilities to provide education.  Not forgetting to mention the numerous kinds of businesses that were ruined. Infrastructures are very important features of any country because they facilitate its development economically, socially and politically. So if they are destroyed, the country if barely sustainable on itself.

Secondly, I will look at the human resources.  Due to the earthquake, there are a lot of effects to human resources. When an earthquake occurs, the buildings and institutions are destroyed, so people in that building will die. There were millions of people who died and disappeared during earthquake. So after earthquake there will be some people who survived with injures some of which lead to permanent disabilities. Human life is valuable and irreplaceable. This loss of human life also increases the number of orphans and many other loved ones. With the destruction of facilities and property, there isn’t enough to feed the remaining population; consequently starvation prevails among the survivors. They have no where to get food and no money to get food because they lost everything. The only source of food is the aid which doesn’t necessarily provide enough for everyone. 

Furthermore, there are the effects on the natural resources. These include animals, trees, mountain, rivers, sea, etc. As a result of the earthquake, the animals will die or get displaced; trees will be no more because they will have fallen as a result of the strength of the movement. Rivers and sea will change course or not exist anymore or worse flood which worsens the situation in the affected region. The results of earthquake to the natural environment are horrifying however if not revived (features such as trees), they cause long term negative effects such as drastic changes in climate. Therefore earthquakes are a big disadvantage to the natural resources and environment.

In the conclusion, earthquakes result in negative effects to the peoples and nature. By losing all of those main resources such as infrastructure, human and natural resource will cause the big problem to economy. If a country loses infrastructures, businesses, education, transport and hence people will be affected because they would not have access to many facilities and other services.  The long term effects of the earthquake to the natural resources are very devastating which gradually if not aided which fall into an economic downturn.