Transcript natural disasters

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A flood is an
overflow of water
that submerges land
which is usually dry.
The European Union
defines a floods as a
covering by water of
land not normally
covered by water
Flood covering King Abdullah Street
in Saudi Arabia.
The Central
European flood of
the Oder River in July
1997 affected Poland,
Germany, and the
Czech Republic. The
flood caused the
deaths of 115 people
and material
damages estimated
at $4.5 billion.
Osiedle Kozanów we Wrocławiu
An earthquake is
the perceptible
shaking of the
surface of the Earth,
resulting from the
sudden release of
energy in the
Earth's crust that
creates seismic
waves.
Nepal earthquake
The 2010 Haiti
earthquake was a
catastrophic
magnitude 7.0
earthquake, with an
epicenter near the
town of Leogane.
Death toll estimates
range from 220,000
to 316,000.
Destroyed residential buildings in
Haiti
A volcano is a
rupture in the crust
of a planetary-mass
object, such as
Earth, that allows
hot lava, volcanic
ash, and gases to
escape from a
magma chamber
below the surface.
Mount Etna, Italy
The eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in 79 AD was one of
the most catastrophic and
infamous volcanic eruptions
in European history. Mount
Vesuvius spewed a deadly
cloud of volcanic gas, stones,
and ash to a height of 33
kilometres, ejecting molten
rock and pulverized pumice
at the rate of 1.5 million tons
per second.
Mount Vesuvius, Italy
A tsunami, also
known as a seismic
sea wave, is a series
of waves in a water
body caused by the
displacement of a
large volume of
water, generally in
an ocean or a large
lake.
Tsunami, Tōhoku 2011
The earthquake triggered
tsunami waves of up to 15
m waves devastated
coastal villages and
towns, as well as bathing
visited at this time of the
year by foreign tourists.
The tsunami caused
destruction on the coast
of Indonesia, Sri Lanka
and India and Thailand.
Were killed about
300,000 people.
Ao Nang, Thailand,
A tropical cyclone is a
rapidly rotating storm
system characterized by a
low-pressure center, strong
winds, and a spiral
arrangement of
thunderstorms that produce
heavy rain. Depending on its
location and strength, a
tropical cyclone is referred
to by names such as
hurricane typhoon, tropical
storm, cyclonic storm,
tropical depression, and
simply cyclone.
Hurricane Isabel (2003)
as seen from orbit
Hurricane Katrina was the
eleventh named storm
and fifth hurricane of the
2005 Atlantic hurricane
season. It was the
costliest natural disaster,
as well as one of the five
deadliest hurricanes, in
the history of the United
States. The storm is
currently ranked as the
third most intense United
States landfalling tropical
cyclone.
Hurricane Katrina on
August 28, 2005