Tsunami A Natural Undersea Earthquake Facts And Images Collection

Introduction Of Tsunami:

A tsunami is a series of huge waves that can cause great devastation and loss of life when they strike a coast.
Tsunamis are caused by an underwater earthquake, a volcanic eruption, an sub-marine rockslide, or, more rarely, by an asteroid or meteoroid crashing into in the water from space. Most tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes, but not all underwater earthquakes cause tsunamis - an earthquake has to be over about magnitude 6.75 on the Richter scale for it to cause a tsunami. About 90 percent of all tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean.

The word tsunami comes from the Japanese word meaning "harbor wave." Tsunamis are sometimes incorrectly called "tidal waves" -- tsunamis are not caused by the tides (tides are caused by the gravitational force of the moon on the sea). Regular waves are caused by the wind.

Facts Of Tsunami:

• A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water. Sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet.

• These awe-inspiring waves are typically caused by large undersea earthquakes at tectonic plate boundaries. When the ocean floor at a plate boundary rises or falls suddenly it displaces the water above it and launches the rolling waves that will become a tsunami.

• Tsunamis may also be caused by underwater landslides or volcanic eruptions. .

• Tsunamis race across the sea at up to 500 miles an hour about as fast as a jet airplane. At that pace they can cross the entire expanse of the Pacific Ocean in less than a day. And their long wavelengths mean they lose very little energy along the way.

• In deep ocean, tsunami waves may appear only a foot or so high. But as they approach shoreline and enter shallower water they slow down and begin to grow in energy and height.

• Some tsunamis do not appear on shore as massive breaking waves but instead resemble a quickly surging tide that inundates coastal areas.

• The best defense against any tsunami is early warning that allows people to seek higher ground. The Pacific Tsunami Warning System, a coalition of 26 nations headquartered in Hawaii, maintains a web of seismic equipment and water level gauges to identify tsunamis at sea. Similar systems are proposed to protect coastal areas worldwide.

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The Huge Waves Of Tsunami

Tornado Introduction Cause Safety Precaution During And After Tornado And Images Collection

Introduction Of Tornadoes:

Tornadoes are nature’s most violent storms. Spawned from powerful thunderstorms. A tornado appears as a rotating funnel shaped cloud that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground with whirling winds that can reach 300 miles per hour. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and 50 miles long. Every state is at some risk from this hazard.  Before a tornado hits the wind may die down and the air may become very still. A cloud of debris can mark the location of a tornado even if a funnel is not visible. Tornadoes generally occur near the trailing edge of a thunderstorm. It is not uncommon to see clear sunlit skies behind a tornado.

Cause Of Tornadoes:

• When the ground grows warmer in spring and aloft is cold warm air near the surface rises.As it cools the water vapor it carries condenses forming clouds and thunderstorms.

• Wind near the surface blow in one direction while winds aloft blow in another.

• Rising warm air creates an updraft pulling the rotating air upright.Now the thunderstorm forms a rotating vortex on mesocyclone but only a few mesocyclones spawn tornadoes.Mesocyclone can be five miles across.

Safety Precautions  During a Tornadoes :

• Go to a pre-designated shelter area such as a safe  room  or the lowest building level. 

• If there is no basement, go to the center of an interior room on the lowest level  away from corners, windows, doors, and outside walls.

• Do not open windows.

•  If you are in vehicle immediately get into a vehicle, buckle your seat belt and try to drive to the closest sturdy shelter.

• Put your head down below the windows cover your head with your hands and a blanket, coat or other cushion if possible.

• If you can safely get noticeably lower than the level of the roadway, leave your car and lie in that area, covering your head with your hands.

• Do not get under an overpass or bridge. You are safer in a low flat location.

• Never try to outrun a tornado in urban or congested areas in a car or truck. Instead, leave the vehicle immediately for safe shelter.

• Watch out for flying debris. Flying debris from tornadoes causes most fatalities and injuries.

Safety Precautions After Tornadoes:

• Continue to monitor your battery-powered radio or television for emergency information.

• Be careful when entering any structure that has been damaged.

• Wear sturdy shoes or boots, long sleeves and gloves when handling or walking on or near debris.

• Be aware of hazards from exposed nails and broken glass.

• Do not touch downed power lines or objects in contact with downed lines. Report electrical hazards to the police and the utility company.

• Seek prompt medical attention if you suspect CO poisoning and are feeling dizzy, light-headed or nauseated.

• Hang up displaced telephone receivers that may have been knocked off by the tornado but stay off the telephone except to report an emergency.

• Cooperate fully with public safety officials.

• Respond to requests for volunteer assistance by police, fire fighters, emergency management and relief organizations, but do not go into damaged areas unless assistance has been requested. Your presence could hamper relief efforts and you could endanger yourself.

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Snow Leopard Introduction And Images Collection

Introduction:

The snow leopard  is a moderately large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central Asia.  The snow leopard has a short muzzle and domed forehead and containing unusually large nasal cavities that help the animal breathe the thin, cold air of their mountainous environment.

 Head and limbs are marked with solid black or brown spots. Body is covered with brown blotches ringed with black and a black streak runs down the back. Tail is heavy with fur and the bottom of the paws are covered with fur for protection against snow and cold. The winter coat is lighter in color.Head and body length is 47to59 inches and the tail is 31to39 inches long.

Snow leopards show several adaptations for living in a cold mountainous environment. Their bodies are stocky, their fur is thick, and their ears are small and rounded, all of which help to minimize heat loss.

Breeding season is usually January to May and gestation lasting 98to103 days. A female will give birth to one to four young in the spring in a rocky shelter lined with her fur. The young open their eyes at 7to9 days and eat solid food at 2 months and follow their mother on hunts at three months. Cubs remain with the mother through their first winter. Snow leopards have lived up to 15 years in captivity.

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Leopard A Wild Animal Introduction And Images Collection

Introduction Of Leopard:

Leopard is a wild animal.The most secretive and elusive of the large carnivores.The leopard is the shrewdest. It is the strongest climber of the large cats and capable of killing prey larger than itself.

Leopards come in a wide variety of coat colors from a light buff or tawny in warmer, drier areas to a dark shade in deep forests. The spots or rosettes are circular in East African leopards but square in southern African leopards.

Leopards are solitary creatures and predominately nocturnal. Each individual has a home range that overlaps with its neighbors.The male's range is much larger and generally overlaps with those of several females. Leopards continually move about their territory, seldom staying in an area for more than two or three days at a time. Ranges are marked with urine and claw marks and leopards announce their presence to other leopards with a rasping cough. Leopards also growl, roar and purr.

A litter includes two or three cubs, whose coats appear to be smoky gray as the rosettes are not yet clearly delineated. The female abandons her nomadic wandering until the cubs are large enough to accompany her. She keeps them hidden for about the first 8 weeks and giving them meat when they are 6 or 7 weeks old and suckling them for 3 months or longer.

The most elusive of the large carnivores.The leopard is a cunning and stealthy hunter.Its prey ranges from strong to scented carrion, fish, reptiles and birds to mammals such as rodents, hares, hyraxes, warthogs, antelopes, monkeys and baboons.

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Swan Bird Very Beautiful Images Collection

About Swan Bird:

The swans are the largest members of the waterfowl family. Anatidae.Swan can reach length of over 60 inches and weigh over 15 kg . Their wingspans can be almost 10 ft.Swan have proportionally larger feet and necks.They also have a patch of unfeathered skin between the eyes and bill in adults. Males are generally bigger and heavier than females.The legs of swans are normally a dark blackish grey colour.

Swans feed in the water and on land. They eat small amounts of aquatic animals. In the water food is obtained by up-ending or dabbling, and their diet is composed of the roots, tubers, stems and leaves of aquatic and submerged plants.

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Crocodiles Introduction And Beautiful But Dangerous Images Collection

Introduction Of Crocodiles:

A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia i.e. the true crocodiles, the alligators and caimans and the gharials as well as the Crocodylomorpha which include prehistoric crocodile relatives and ancestors.. They first appeared during the Eoceneepoch, about 55 million years ago.

Crocodiles eat meat or pretty much anything that will get close enough to the water to be dragged in. The adult usually eat snakes, buffalo, cattle, or anything else that gets near the water including humans. 

Each crocodile jaw carries 24 sharp teeth meant to grasp and crush.Many times crocodiles stay on the river banks mouth wide open. That is not an aggressive posture but a way to cool off: they sweat through the mouth.The crocodiles have a four-chambered heart like in birds.Crocodiles have salt glands inside their mouths so they can stand sea water.Crocodile have pairs of shiny red dots. These are the crocodile's eyes which have a layer called tapetum. Behind their retina containing crystals that reflect light and make possible the night vision. A female lays 20to80 eggs which are incubated in a nest built from plant materials and defended by her for three months. A farmed crocodile reaches 1.5 m. in length in just one year.Crocodiles can swim just with the help of their powerful tail with 40 km. per hour and can stand underwater 2to3 hours.. 

Crocodiles can live up to 80 years.A mother crocodile can carry her young in a pouch inside her mouth. 

Crocodiles have the ability to keep their eyes open under water.

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Introduction Of Agra Famous Places In Agra And Beautiful And Memorable Images Collection

Introduction Of Agra:

Agra is the one of the prominent destinations of the World Tourism place with three heritage monuments ,The Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri & Red Fort. It is more just a decadent city of graveyards and work. 

Agra’s magnificent white marble Taj Mahal stands like a bulbous beacon, drawing tourists like moths to a wondrous flame. Despite the hype, it’s every bit as good . While Agra itself is a sprawling, bloated and polluted industrial city that few travellers seem to have a good word for, the Taj is not a stand-alone attraction. The legacy of the Mughal empire has left a magnificent fort and a sprinkling of fascinating tombs and mausoleums, while the Yamuna River provides a suitably sacred backdrop. The Mughal emperor Babur established his capital here in 1526, and for the next century Agra witnessed a remarkable spate of architectural activity as each emperor tried to outdo the grandiose monuments built by his predecessors.

The city has a lively but chaotic chowk (marketplace) and plenty of places to stay and eat, but the hordes of rickshaw-wallahs, touts, unofficial guides and souvenir vendors can be as persistent as the monsoon rain.

Many tourists choose to visit Agra on a whistle-stop day trip – made possible by the excellent train services from Delhi. However, Agra’s attractions are much more than can be seen in a day.

Agra is also known for its fabulous handicrafts, made of marble and softstone inlay work. The Mughals were great patrons of arts and crafts. Empress Nur Jahan took personal interest and was an accomplished artist herself in zari embroidery work. Agra's major handicraft products besides inlay work are: leatherware, brassware, carpets, jewellery and embroidery work. 

Famous Places In Agra :

Famous places in Agra are as follows:

Taj Mahal :

Taj Mahal was built by a grief stricken Emperor Shahjahan as a memorial to his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. A world-renowned wonder, Taj Mahal sits pretty on the northern side of this green paradise. It looks the same from all the four sides! The Quranic inscriptions on its four entrances are carved in such subtle increase in size that may appear to be of the same size from top to bottom! Shahjahan invited master craftsmen from as far as Italy and Persia to help design his ambitious tribute to love.

The Taj Mahal is phenomenal not in the beauty alone that shines forth, but in the deep planning and design that went into its making, and the ethereal idea of immortalizing love. Delicate carvings in marble vie with gorgeous pietra dura for attention. Lapis-lazuli, Cornelian, Mother of pearl, Agate and Emerald are inlayed in floral and geometrical patterns in the marble itself. This enchanting mausoleum, on the bank of river Yamuna started in 1631 and it took 22 years to complete with the help of an estimated 20000 workers.

The Agra Fort:

The great Mughal Emperor Akbar commissioned the construction of the Agra Fort in 1666, A.D. although additions were made till the time of his grandson Shahjahan.

The forbidding exteriors of this fort hide an inner paradise. There are a number of exquisite buildings like Moti Masjid - a white marble mosque akin to a perfect pearl; Diwan-I-Am, Diwan-I-Khaas, Musamman Burj - where Shahjahan died in 1666 A.D. Jahangir's Palace; Khaas Mahal and Shish Mahal.

Chini Ka Rauza:

Mausoleum of Shahjahan's prime minister and Persian poet Afzal Khan Aalmi entitled "Maula Shukrullah, Shirazi" buit in 1635, exhibits fine use of glazed tiles. A curtain raiser to an exotic Persian art style, which finds itself a home in Agra.

Amadh of Soamiji Maharaj:

It is a tribute to the founder of Radha Swami faith. Devout followers believe the service, purifies the soul. At soamibagh their services bears fruit in an edifice as spectacular as the Taj Built in white and coloured marble, it is continuously being decorated for more than 100 years now with extra-ordinary feast in stone and gems.

Ram Bagh:

One of the earliest Mughal gardens, believed to be laid out by Mughal Emperor Babur, the founder of Mughal dynasty. It is said that Babur was temporarily buried here before being taken to Kabul in Afganistan.

Mehtab Bagh:

Mehtab Bagh is located on the left bank of river Yamuna opposite to the Taj Mahal. The garden complex is a huge square measuring approximately 300m X 300m and in straight alignment with the Taj Mahal. The excavation has revealed a huge octagonal tank on the southern periphery : baradaris or pavilion on the east and west: a small octagonal tank at the center and a gateway at the northern wall.

Itimad-ud-daula's : Tomb (Baby Taj):

This exquisite marble tomb was made by Emperor Jahangir's queen, Nurjahan , in the memory of her father Mirza Ghias Beg during 1622-1628 A.D. Built entirely in white marble and inlaid with semi-precious stones, this mausoleum on the bank of the Yamuna River, exhibits a strong Persian influence.

Sikandra:

It is the mausoleum of Emperor Akbar. It represents his philosophy and secular outlook, combining the best of Hindu and Muslim architectures in a superlative fusion. Completed in 1613 A.D., it is one of the well preserved monument.

Mariyam's Tomb:

This unique tomb in red sandstone was built in memory of Emperor Akbar's wife Mariyam Zamani. The tomb has some exceptional carvings.

Jama Masjid:

The building with rectangular open forecourt was constructed in 1648A.D. by Shahajahan's daughter, Jehanara Begum. Of particular importance is its wonderful assimilation of Iranian architecture.

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Glaciers Short History And Amazing Images Collection

Short History Of Glaciers:

A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass. Glaciers form over many years from packed snow in areas where snow accumulates faster than it melts. A glacier is always moving, but when its forward edge melts faster than the ice behind it advances, the glacier as a whole shrinks backward.

Large mass of perennial ice that forms on land through the recrystallization of snow and that moves forward under its own weight. The term ice sheet is commonly applied to a glacier that occupies an extensive tract of relatively level land and that flows from the centre outward. Glaciers occur where snowfall in winter exceeds melting in summer, conditions that prevail only in high mountain areas and polar regions. Glaciers occupy about 11 of the Earth's land surface but hold roughly threetofourths of its fresh water. 99 of glacier ice lies in Antarctica and Greenland.

Glaciers are of four chief types. Valley, or mountain, glaciers are tongues of moving ice sent out by mountain snowfields following valleys originally formed by streams. In the Alps there are more than 1,200 valley glaciers. Piedmont glaciers which occur only in high latitudes are formed by the spreading of valley glaciers where they emerge from their valleys or by the confluence of several valley glaciers. Small ice sheets known as ice caps are flattened, somewhat dome-shaped glaciers spreading out horizontally in all directions and cover mountains and valleys. Continental glaciers are huge ice sheets whose margins may break off to form icebergs. During glacial periods they were far more widespread. Glaciers may be classified as warm or cold depending on whether their temperatures are above or below −10°C. 

The causes of glacial movement are exceedingly complex and doubtless are not all operative on the same glacier at the same time. Important elements in glacial movement are melting under pressure followed by refreezing, which may push the mass in the direction of least resistance; sliding or shearing of layers of ice one on top of the other; and rearrangement of the granules when pressure causes melting. Sudden, rapid movements of glaciers, called glacier surges, have been observed in Alaskan and other glaciers, with evidence for such abnormal movements as the crumpled lines of surface debris found on them. It is thought that the relatively sudden movement and melting of glaciers may be indicative of climate warming. 

The world's glaciers are slowly disappearing. Global temperatures have risen by about 1 degree Fahrenheit over the last century with winter temps having risen as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit in the Arctic region. 

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Indira Gandhi Canal Introduction And Images Collection

Indira Gandhi Canal:

Indira Gandhi Canal is the largest canal in India. The canal is 650 km long and starts from the Harike Barrage, a few kilometers below the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers in Punjab. It flows through Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan, with the major length of the canal flowing through Rajasthan. The canal terminates near Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. 

The construction of Indira Gandhi Canal was started in 1958. The main objective behind building the canal is to convert the part of Thar desert from wasteland to agriculturally productive area. The canal was earlier known as Rajasthan Canal and its name was changed in 1984. Indira Gandhi Canal uses water released from Pong dam.

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Indira Gandhi Canal  In India

Indira Gandhi Canal  In India

 

Indira Gandhi Canal Is Largest Canal In India

Indira Gandhi Canal  In India

Indira Gandhi Canal Is Largest Canal In India