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14th October 2003 Unit 24- Major Incidents Task 1 For this assignment I have been set the task of examining three disasters and the various ways in which they occur. I will need to provide a written description of three different disasters. * One caused Naturally * One caused by Human Action * One caused Technologically Natural Disaster The natural disaster that I have chosen to write about is the great floods of 1953. The east coast floods of 1953 were mainly caused by what is known as 'storm surge'. A storm surge occurs at the centre of the storm where the pressure is at its minimum, causing sea levels to rise up to 10 metres. The result being, serious flooding of all low lying coastal lands. With the east coast this caused the sea levels of some areas to rise by nearly 3 metres above normal high water marks. Defences along the coast were damaged and...

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