Jamaica Is The Country Of Jamaica - 1125 Words

Jamaica is an island country sitting in the middle of the beautiful Caribbean Sea. This island is 10,990 square kilometers and is currently home to 2,950,210 Jamaican citizens (Rogers). The population density is 252 citizens per kilometer squared and is growing at a rate of 0.4 percent. In regard to the size of the island, Jamaica is the fourth largest island in the Caribbean Sea. According to a The World Factbook: Jamaica, Jamaica’s terrain consists of mostly rocky mountains with narrow discontinuous coastal plains (World Fackbook 1). The climate of this area is tropical hot and humid. As far as the elevation of the area and surrounding areas, the absolute lowest point in the actual Caribbean Sea and the highest point is Blue Mountain†¦show more content†¦Within this island lots of things make this land what it is today. The focus of this paper will be to address three of the aspects that contribute to taking away from Kingston and cause environmental concern. The 3 negative attributes that make of this land are hurricanes, earthquakes, and the human activities. Kingston is commonly prone to many natural hazards. Most people probably wouldn’t know this because it’s not extremely often that we hear about these disasters happening there. Because this specific island is located directly in the hurricane belt they consequently experience many hurricanes. The hurricane belt is a part of the Atlantic Ocean. This area can be found in the northern part of the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico. There have two recent hurricanes that Kingston has experienced. Hurricane Gilbert which was a Category 3 hurricane in 1988 (Sanchez). This specific hurricane resulted in 45 deaths but affected over 500,000 people within the area. Hurricane Ivan was expected to directly hit Kingston but unexpectedly didn’t which resulted in fewer deaths, 14 reported (Zambon). This hurricane was anticipated to hit Kingston in a major way but did not. In p reparation of the coming natural disaster the city successfully evacuated 150,000 out of the danger zone, as far as mitigating and planning for this impact it was handled very well. Although it