Historic Earthquakes Chile 1960 May 22 19:11:14 UTC Magnitude 9.5 The Largest Earthquake in the World Articles N.B. : The magnitude for this earthquake has been recalculated since the following articles were written. Magnitude 9.5 is a better determination of the size of this earthquake. More than 2,000 killed, 3,000 injured, 2,000,000 homeless, and $550 million damage in southern Chile; tsunami caused 61 deaths, $75 million damage in Hawaii; 138 deaths and $50 million damge in Japan; 32 dead and missing in the Phillippines; and $500,000 damage to the west coast of the United States. Abridged from United States Earthquakes 1960, by H. Carroll Talley, Jr. and William K. Cloud.
The most devastating effect of drought in California is wildfires – dry vegetation is extremely flammable, so fires spread quickly over wide areas. 5. The wildfires in Southern California in October 2007 killed 22 people and destroyed 1300 homes. Tsunamis 1. A tsunami is a series of large waves that can flood coastal areas.
2011 Joplin Tornado Chris Ojugo America public University Disaster Management PHHE 606 Professor.. Bohl Shelh August 31, 2013 2011 Joplin Tornado ABSTACT Joplin, Missouri 2011 Tornado significance, rated F5, highest single tornado, since 1953, Killed 124,people, 9 people rescued, over 1,500 injured and destroyed over 8,000 properties. 24 minute warning time above average of 13 to 14 minute to touched dawn, average population during the day Monday to Friday 270,000,the day of incident Sunday average population of the city 49,000. ("Storm event survey," 2011) Introduction Tornado is a narrow violently rotating column of air that extend the base of a thunderstorm to the ground, among all atmospheric storm from rain, hurricane
There were no casualties in the Eyajafjallakull eruption but it was one of the most publicised volcanic eruptions in recorded history receiving a lot of media attention. In contrast in the mount Merapi eruption 350 people died and 350,000 people were left homeless because the destructive pyroclastic flows decimated villages and caused an emergency evacuation. The 2010 Mount Merapi eruption caused 447 million dollars of damage, this included cars, homes and basic infrastructure like boats, bridges and roads. This economic cost is very minimal when compared to the several billion dollars lost by the airlines who were unable to fly through the vast, dense ash cloud. Because the airlines couldn’t fly they required no fuel and the oil industry had drilled, purified and refined fuel they could not sell.
Volcanoes On April 5,1815, the people of Indonesia were going about their usual work and chores, thinking nothing of what would happen later that day. Around seven p.m. when farmers were coming in from a long day of work, the ground started to shake sending tsunamis racing across the Java Sea. The sky darkened and columns of black smoke were rising into the air from Mount Tambora. The huge mountain rose 13,000 feet into the air, as the people watched, waiting for what would happen next dust, gases, and rock were thrown into the atmosphere, covering twelve miles rapidly with debris. Rivers of hot ash ran down the mountain side, and through grasslands, forests, and farms, destroying everything in its path, killing 10,000 of the islands inhabitants.
Facts about Pompeii Facts about Pompeii * The inhabitants of Pompeii did not know that Vesuvius was a volcano, as it hadn’t erupted in 1,800 years. There isn’t even a Latin word for volcano. * The longer a volcano sleeps the more deadly the eruption. There were signs that Vesuvius was beginning to stir – earthquakes, ground rising up and underground spring drying up – but the people didn’t know how to read these signs or understand what they meant. * A reservoir of boiling magma some three kilometres wide formed within Vesuvius, trapped inside by a plug of old magma.
Residents went to emergency shelters because of the radiation. Equipment failure, human error, and bad luck would conspire to create America’s worst nuclear accident. The impact of Three Mile Island was terrible, there was a massive cleanup. The cleanup started in August of 1979 and officially ended in December of 1993. The cleanup cost about 975 million dollars.
states. At the same time, snow, ice, and several entire glaciers on the mountain melted, forming a series of large lahars (volcanic mudslides) that reached as far as the Columbia River. Less severe outbursts continued into the next day only to be followed by other large but not as destructive eruptions later in 1980. By the time the ash settled, 57 people (including innkeeper Harry Truman and geologist David A. Johnston) and thousands of animals were dead, hundreds of square miles reduced to wasteland, over a billion U.S. dollars in damage had occurred ($2.74 billion in 2007 dollars[1]), and the face of Mount St. Helens was scarred with a huge crater on its north side. At the time of the eruption, the summit of Mount St. Helens was owned by the Burlington Northern Railroad, but afterward the land passed to the United States Forestry Service.
In this essay I will explain the rock that the natural wonder of Easter Island contains. Its located in Chile, 30 00 S, 71 00 W. Located 2200 miles due west of Chile and 1200 miles east of Pitcairn Island, is a sixty-three square mile island formed eons ago by two volcanoes. Because a Dutch seaman, Jacob Roggeveen, came upon it on Easter Day, 1722, we know it on our maps as Easter Island. Rich as the natural resources were, over-population, probably, resulted in their substantial depletion. Pollen records indicate the forests were endangered by 800 AD and likely disappeared in the 1400's.
In 1998, 300 million humans, one in twenty of us, had to leave their homes for a week, and month, a year, forever because of rising waters. (McKibben 682) This is evidence that global warming, or the process of the earth heating up, is really happening. McKibben also says “Severe storms have already grown more frequent and more damaging. The seasons are less steady in their progression. Some agriculture is less reliable” (McKibben 683).