In recent years, Xiamen has frequently suffered from natural disasters. First of all, the most obvious is the typhoon disaster. Every summer and autumn, typhoons from the tropical Pacific regularly visit the mainland area on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. Xiamen is located in the eastern coastal area of Asia, especially on the route that typhoons must pass through. In addition, Xiamen's topography is high in the west and low in the east, which just makes the disaster caused by wind-induced topography more serious. Considering that the east of Xiamen is blocked by Taiwan Province Island, it is often the deceleration of Taiwan Province Island that can reduce the impact of typhoon on Xiamen.

Xiamen is just on the Mediterranean-Pacific Rim seismic belt, so? The occurrence of earthquakes is inevitable. Fortunately, Xiamen's geographical location is in the dead zone of the earth's crust, so the earth's crust activity will not be too frequent and the impact will be minimized; In addition, most commercial houses in Xiamen are already earthquake-resistant buildings, so the earthquake has little impact on Xiamen. However, the earthquake disaster has always affected Xiamen.

The above two points are caused by congenital factors, but as long as people are prepared in advance, they can minimize the losses in the face of disasters, and the Xiamen government has done a good job.

Forest fires and red tides have a serious impact.

The ratio of forest greening area in Xiamen is still relatively high in the whole country, so dry and hot weather is easy to appear in autumn and winter and summer. As long as people's preventive education and garden patrol are strengthened, the danger can be minimized and a series of alarm systems can be strengthened.

Xiamen is a coastal city, located at the mouth of Jiulong River. The urban sewage from the upper reaches of Jiulong River is discharged to the lower reaches without treatment. In addition, Xiamen needs to further develop the ocean due to urban development, which also aggravates the occurrence of red tides to some extent.

The above two points are disasters caused by acquired causes.

There are also many examples of natural disasters in Xiamen, such as: 1997 earthquake with magnitude of 6, with numerous casualties; 1998 12 typhoon center passed by, causing huge economic losses; 1999 volcano erupted, and all crops were burned to death by magma; Plague in 2000, people were in dire straits; 200 1 bird flu, countless casualties, making people miserable; In 2003, nearly 200 people died in mine accidents.

Therefore, the government can improve the level of earthquake monitoring, analysis and prediction and emergency response to destructive earthquakes by improving the infrastructure conditions of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction in this area; A sound leadership system for earthquake prevention and disaster reduction has been established by perfecting the four social disaster reduction systems, namely, the work system for earthquake prevention and disaster reduction, the legal system, publicity and education, and emergency plans, which has obviously raised the awareness of the general public.

We can also increase investment in infrastructure construction for earthquake prevention and disaster reduction, build "Shuikou Reservoir Area Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Reduction Project", "Regional Digital Earthquake Telemetry Network" and "Urban Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Reduction System Project in Key Earthquake Monitoring and Prevention Areas", and set up an emergency rescue team equipped with professional equipment to greatly improve Xiamen's comprehensive earthquake prevention and disaster reduction level and ability.

Among them, the establishment of "regional digital seismic telemetry network" can realize the qualitative leap from analog seismic observation to digital seismic observation. "Urban Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Reduction System Project in Key Earthquake Monitoring and Prevention Areas" can gradually realize the digitalization, automation, networking and multimedia of Xiamen earthquake monitoring system, analysis and prediction system and information transmission system.

We should start from small things, start from around us, and contribute our meager strength to Xiamen's brilliant tomorrow.