Natural Disasters

What are Natural Disasters?

Natural Disasters are disasters that occur in this world naturally. Natural disasters can happen at any location at any time throughout the universe. Natural disasters can destroy cities, or sometimes a whole country if it is that severe. They can occur on land, in the water, and with the weather.

What are land movement disasters?

Land movement disasters are disasters that occur on land. Some land movement disasters are earthquakes, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, landslides and many more.

Avalanches are usually downhill fall of snow or mud but sometimes it may get mixed up with Avalanches are usually mud.

Avalanches

downhill fall of snow or mud but sometimes it may get mixed up with mud.
Avalanches

are rapid downhill flow of a large mass of snow or ice dislodged from a mountainside or the top of a high cliff, or a similar fall of rocks and earth.

Volcanic Eruptions
A volcano is an opening in

the planets surface which lets hot, rocks, ash, molten lava, and gases onto the surface from inside the planet. Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock intends to form mountains over a period of time. Volcanoes are found where tectonic plates are either diverging or converging.

A volcanic eruption is when a

volcano erupts and lets out lava, rocks, ash, and many more things. These things that are let out during a volcanic eruption are from the inside of the planet. Volcanoes can form where there is stretching and thinning of the planets crust or surface.

Volcanic Eruptions

 Wildfires are common in different parts of the world and they happen in cycles. Nine out of ten wildfires are caused by humans interaction.

Wildfires
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Wildfires

Wildfires are common in different parts of the world and they happen in cycles. Nine out of ten wildfires are caused by humans interaction.

Wildfires means something furious or destructive.

Earthquakes

Earthquakes

An earthquake is a violent shaking of the Earths crust that may cause destruction to buildings and cities. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rapture of geological faults, also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments. Some earthquakes that happened before are the Haiyuan earthquake in 1920 which happened in China, Messina earthquake in 1908 which happened in Italy, and the Quito earthquake in 1797 which happened in Ecuador.

Earthquakes

Water Disasters
Water Disasters are disasters that occur in water such as oceans, rivers, lakes, etc. Some types of water disasters are droughts, tsunamis, tidal waves, floods, and many more.

 Droughts are long period of extremely dry weather when

there is not enough rain for the successful growing of crops or the replenishment of water supplies. Droughts are long period of extremely dry weather when there is not enough rain for the successful growing of crops or the replenishment of water supplies.

Droughts

Droughts are long period of extremely dry weather when there is not enough rain for the successful growing of crops or the replenishment of water supplies. Droughts are long period of extremely dry weather when there is not enough rain for the successful growing of crops or the replenishment of water supplies.

Droughts

Floods
Floods are water covering previously dry area. A flood is a very large amount of water that has overflowed from a source such as a river, lake, and ocean. The damages after a flood is harsh because everything or parts of things will be under water and the effects of a flood can kill many people.

Floods

Hurricanes

Hurricanes are several tropical storms that can form in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes that occur at the seas, and oceans cause large waves, heavy rain, and high winds. Tropical cyclones is another name for hurricanes when it is at a certain level or at a certain size. Some hurricanes that have occurred are the Bombay Hurricane in 1882 in India, and Hurricane Katrina which happened in the United States.

Hurricanes

Lighting storms and Thunderstorms

Lighting storms and thunderstorms are basically the same thing. They both contain flashes of lighting striking an area and the effects of the lighting causes thunder. Sometimes during these storms, it also rains, snows or hails in certain cases.

Lighting storms and Thunderstorms

Tornadoes

Tornadoes can happen when there is a thunderstorm.

A tornado is a dangerous rotating column of air which is connected to the surface of the earth and a clod. It destroys anything it touches in its path.

Tornadoes can come in many sizes and shapes. The usual shape of a tornado is a funnel, which is seeable and is narrow end touches the earths surface.

Tornadoes

Cyclones
A cyclone is a large-scale storm system with heavy rain and winds that rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere around and toward a low pressure center. Cyclones have also been seen on other planets other then the Earth, such as Mars, and Neptune. Some deadly cyclones that happened before are the Bhola cyclone in Bangladesh in 1970, the India cyclone in India in 1839, the Calcutta cyclone in India in 1737, and the Bangladesh cyclone in Bangladesh in 1991.

Cyclones

Tsunamies
Tsunami was a word rarely heard before the powerful seaquake off southeastern Asia and the tsunami in Sumatra. But the question 'Can this also happen in the North Sea?' is on many lips since.

Tsunamies Tsunamies
Tsunamis can
savagely attack coastlines, causing devastating property damage and loss of life. Some tsunamis are in the Indian Ocean which happened with a earthquake as well.

Tsunamis can savagely attack coastlines, causing devastating property damage and loss of life.

Some tsunamis are in the Indian Ocean which happened with a earthquake as well.

A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water is quickly displaced.

Earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, may happen underwater or above water which causes a start of tsunami in the oceans, rivers, or coastlines.

Tsunami

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