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The recent horrific strom surge flooding New Jersey and New york in US by Hurricane Sandy was almost prefectly predicted well in advance, but was more extreme than the average person might expect from a minimal hurricane. There is a metric that quantifies the energy of a strom based on how far out tropical - strom force winds extend from the centre, known as Integrated Kinetic Energy (IKE).
(i) What is Sandy's ranking in terms of `IKE` among all the hurricanes witnessed so far ?
(ii) What is the `IKE` of sandy ?
(iii) How was sandy different from Hurricane Katrina ?
(iv) Which human value did Sandy generate among the people round the globe ?

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