Hildegunn

My subject is “Natural disasters in the world and their impact on inflicted societies”.

There are 10 types of natural disasters.

-	Earthquakes. -	Extreme heat. -	Floods. -	Hurricanes. -	Landslides and Mudslides. -	Tornadoes. -	Tsunamis. -	Volcanoes. -	Wildfires. -	Winter weather.

Natural disasters and severe weather. http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/ (lest 10.02.2009).

Earthquakes and Tsunamis.

I guess all of us can remember the terrible disaster in Christmas 2004. The Indian Ocean earthquake, witch resulted in a huge tsunami that flushed into countries like Thailand, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, in all 11 countries. More than 225 000 people died, and even more became homeless.

It all started in the Indian Ocean. An earthquake with a magnitude of 9.3 found place. This was about 07.58. 30 minutes later, several giant waves began to hit the coast of Sumatra. An hour after the earthquake, the waves started to hit Thailand, the southern Myanmar, and some parts of Malaysia. A couple of hours later, it crashed into Sri Lanka, and India. Some Scandinavians who vacationed in these countries died.

This was a catastrophe that the world will never forget.

Jordskjelvet i Indiahavet. (23.02.09) http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordskjelvet_i_Indiahavet_2004 (lest: 24.02.09)

Extreme heat.

In 2003, there was an extreme heat wave in southern Europe. France, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Switzerland were affected the worst. Ca 35 000 people died caused of the extreme heat. France worst affected, with 14 802 dead people. The temperatures were more than 40 degrees!

The highest temperatures recorded, was 52.2 degrees in Sevilla, Spain. This is the highest temperature ever recorded European Heat wave. (21.02.09) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave#France (lest 24.02.09)

Hurricanes

The tropical hurricane Katarina is the most valuable natural disasters that have ever stroked America. It was formed above the south east part of Bahamas August 23, 2005. It came closer and closer to New Orleans 28 august 2005. It was expected to be a very dangerous hurricane, and 1 million people were evacuated. But when it stroked the southeast coast of America, it was downgraded to a tropical storm. New Orleans is still categorized as a catastrophe area. When the hurricane had crossed over New Orleans, the inhabitants were requested to go to the sports arena Louisiana Superdome, or Ernest Morial Convention Center. Ten thousands of people followed this request. The access to food and water was quite bad, and the sanitary installation totally collapsed. Due to this, and the extreme heat, we can call the conditions quite bad. 1836 people died because of the Hurricane Katarina.

Orkanen Katarina (23.12.08) http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkan_Katrina_(2005) (lest 24.02.09) Hurricane Katarina (21.02.09) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katarina (lest 24.02.09)

Volcanoes

Vesuv is a volcano in Italy. It is famous for burying a whole town the way it was. You might know the name from the Disney comics about Donald Duck, were Macica (the evil witch who wants to steal the lucky coin from Scrooge mc duck) lives on Vesuv.

It is still active, and is the only active volcano on the Italian mainland. Vesuv is the most dangerous volcano in the world. 3 million people live in the neighbourhood of Vesuv. Pompeii was a roman city 23 kilometres from Napoli. When Vesuv had its outburst, the city were only stroked by ashes and pumice stone. This buried the city, and kept everything the way it was before the outburst. Pompeii was buried under 6 metres of ashes. The picture shows a mother and a child laying down at the ground, trying to protect each other from the ashes.

Pompeii, (11.02.09) http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii (Lest 26.02.2009)

Natural deceases

Natural deceases will be a larger and larger part of our life. This may be because of the climate changing. It is just something we have to learn to live with, though, we may teach better methods of evacuating and saving humans and animals.

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