Natural Disasters
Can you name
the natural disasters
shown in the coming slides?
What’s happening?
It’s an avalanche!
purrfectcatshelter.org:8080/james/ideas/idea014.html
See how the snow
tumbles down the
mountain!
http://nsidc.org/snow/gallery/avalanche.html
What’s going to happen?
A volcanic eruption!
http://www.rsiphotos.com/gallery_detail.php?PhotoID=119
http://www.visualparadox.com/wallpapers/eruption.htm
http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/photogalleries/l/blvolcano15.htm
This house has been set ablaze by lava!
http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/photogalleries/l/blvolcano16.htm
What has happened to the land?
http://www.iaca.it/the_times.htm
All the plants will die if the drought continues!
http://msa.monash.edu.au/representation/enviro/MCCG?D=A
Beware if the sky is overcast like this!
http://www.kstwisters.com/
http://www.shakirafanz.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5985
Do you see why a tornado is also called a twister?
http://www.bryce.pl/tornado.html
Imagine what
will happen to
the buildings
along the path
of a tornado!
http://www.boldering.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t10506.html
The buildings are all debris now!!!
http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/97/385/16421_tornado.html
What’s going on here?
http://www.ideers.bris.ac.uk/shaken/img/landslide.jpg
http://i.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/salvadorquake/landslide.jpg
See how the road is damaged!
http://www.planning.org/landslides/docs/main.html
A landslide is often
caused by massive flooding
http://agrolink.moa.my/did/hydro/album/banjir/pages/landslide_Kdipang1.htm
Look at the mess
caused by the flood!
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/China/images/flood0625.jpg
Is this Venice? No. It’s China
on June 24, 2005
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/images/050624chinaflood.jpg
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/forcesofnature/flooding.html
Are these boats going out surfing?
NO !
A tsunami is coming!
http://www.bc-enschede.nl/wgrassroots/vakken/aardrijkskunde
The waves are coming inland!
http://www.awitness.org/journal/dragon_tsunami.html
Run for your lives!
http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1405110610408
The visibility is really low today!
It’s not smog or fog.
It’s a heavy snow storm!
http://community.webshots.com/photo/yahoo
http://spine.cx/modules.php?name=Forums&viewtopic=974&9
How deep, do you estimate, is the snow?
http://spine.cx/modules.php?name=Forums&viewtopic=974&9
What’s on the
ground?
Rain?
Snow?
http://www.fxtech.com/gallery/hail/hail_4
It’s a hail storm!
http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2002/0607hail.htm
Imagine hail stones of this
size hitting you on the head!
Many of the climatic changes you saw
above are natural phenomena.
But sometimes they happen suddenly
at unlikely times
in unlikely places.
Can you think of the causes?