Introduction Since the 1980s the frequency, duration and intensity of hurricanes in the North Atlantic have been increasing. With this and the rise of sea-levels due to a warming climate it is causing for there to be more frequent flooding and an increase in rainfall rates. As this occurs more and more barrier islands and low-lying coastal areas have seen a dramatic increase in erosion from their beaches all the way from Florida to the coast of Maine. According to […]
Overwatch community has recently made a plea on Reddit asking Blizzard to take action on Australian wildfires. Community called on Blizzard to make firefighters skins for some of the heroes. The post added that the purchases of these skins should also go towards helping to put out fires in Australia. According to the Reddit post created by WippitGuud, the post asked for two heroes to be made into firefighters in Overwatch. The heroes in question were Junkrat and Roadhog. The proposal […]
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Get help with your assignmentI was awoken by the piercing noise of my alarm. I thought it would be an ordinary day on call at the fire station. However, it wasn’t an ordinary day. I ended up fighting the largest fire in my profession and there were catastrophic fire alerts for most of New South Wales. However, let me start from how I got to where I am today…It all started when I turned ten years old. My mum asked me what I wanted […]
Case summary This case summary is about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, on 20th April 2010 the Deepwater Horizon is a floating deep-sea oil-drilling platform that had an explosion and was occurred by fire. The Deepwater Horizon was operated by Transocean and leased to British Petroleum’s (BP) Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. The fire blazed for 36 hours, destroyed the whole platform, and killed 11 oil rig workers, and 17 workers were severely injured by the explosion. The […]
Flagler beach is one of the most popular beaches in the Flagler county area. I moved to Flagler county in 2015 and once I arrived I realized there was absolutely nothing to do, until I found Flagler beach. Since Florida is so hot Flagler beach became such a popular place to enjoy some fun attractions, walk on the beautiful boardwalk, and the amazing view. But before all of this could happen, what made Flagler beach… Flagler beach? Henry Flagler was […]
One farmer in Sidney, Iowa, Dustin Sheldon, is feeling the damage caused by the flooding in the Midwest this spring. He estimates his family farm has lost about $1 million in damages from the floods. Sheldon says that in his county alone, there is roughly $7 million worth of grain stuck in grain bins that has either already been lost or is inaccessible. He also says that many farmers probably will not be able to bounce back from these catastrophic […]
Volcanoes are mountains that have an opening where molten lava flows down from the side. Most of these volcanoes ruin villages. Volcanoes are usually active and most people who live near one don’t know it. People mostly die from volcanoes.Where volcanoes occur is magma that rises to the surface at the edges of the plates, this means that the volcanoes are mostly spaced out around the Earth in long thin lines. A, plate edges stretch all the way around the […]
The composite volcano sometimes known as stratovolcanoes are steep symmetrical cones that make up some of the most famous mountains for example Mount St. Helens, Mount Fuji and Mount Rainier. These volcanoes have formed over hundreds of thousands of years through multiple eruptions. Composite volcanoes are fed by a conduit system which taps into a reservoir of magma deep within the earth says universetoday.com. This magma can erupt out of several vents across the composite volcano’s flanks or from a […]
Located in Portland, Oregon, there lie many volcanoes. When thinking of volcanoes, Oregon doesn’t come to mind right away; however, Portland, Oregon is located along the Cascade Volcanic Arc, and is home to and around 5 volcanoes: Mount St. Helens, Mount Hood, Powell Butte Nature Park, Mount Tabor, and Rocky Butte Nature Area. Personally, I have not been to Oregon or seen any of these volcanoes first hand, but I must say Oregon is a beautiful state. If I am […]
There are so many things happening in our world that it’s hard to keep up with everything that going on. One thing that not many know about are the earthquakes in Alaska. Lots of people are surprised to find out that Alaska has earthquakes. Though Alaska is actually pretty used to earthquakes. Alaska records an average of 40,000 quakes every year. Earthquakes in Alaska date all the way back to 1899. The earthquakes happen because parts of Alaska sit of […]
A volcanic eruptions are devastating events that cause mass destruction throughout our society. Volcanoes are made by lava and ash coming out of the ground and hardening. Then over time, it will create a volcano. Volcanoes kill 540 people each year(Fox News). Volcanoes can be caused by other natural disasters or pressure underneath earths surface but the destruction can be minimized by following the evacuation route. To begin with, volcano eruptions can be caused by many different things. One way […]
Earthquakes in Japan has become more frequent these last couples of years. Japan is considered the eighteenth largest country in Asia with 145,914 square miles (377,915 sq km) (Briney 2018). Out of many Asian countries, Japan was one of the countries in Asia that had the worst earthquakes happened to. Why is Japan prone to earthquakes and why does it happen to them frequently? Japan dealt with such drastic damage that they are still in recovery from the damages. Many […]
It’s 5:12 AM, April 18, 1906. Extremely loud low pitched rumbling wakes many people up from their sleep. This rumbling sound was caused by the Pacific and American Tectonic plates scraping along each other at the San Andreas fault. A shock suddenly hits San Francisco, and it shakes the ground for 45 seconds. Another tremblor – 8.3 on the Richter Scale 0 hits for another 25 seconds. Chaos reigned the streets of San Francisco. Later, 4.7 square miles would be […]
Earthquake in the sea between Italy and Greece Tsunami Italy, climbed the sea level A powerful earthquake, of magnitude 6.8, struck last night just before two o’clock in the morning (one in Italy) the west coast of the Peloponnese, in Greece, causing great fear but fortunately no victims, and only limited damage . The epicenter was located in the Ionian Sea, 38 kilometers from the island of Zakynthos, at a depth of 14 kilometers. The quake was distinctly felt up […]
At 4:53 p.m. on January 12, 2010, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck Haiti. Within 20 minutes of the initial shock, two large aftershocks followed with respective magnitudes of 6.0 and 5.7. Leog- ne is the epicenter, a town approximately 15 miles southwest from Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. This location is near, if not on, the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault. In recent years, Haiti has dealt with a series of disasters but this earthquake is deemed as a catastrophe. […]
On Friday, November 30, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Anchorage, Alaska shocking many individuals and causing panic for them and their families. The shaking started with a sharp jolt and continued for one minute. The earthquake happened around 8:30 am, and although no deaths were reported, some individuals are being treated for lacerations due to broken glass. Since this natural disaster, Alaska has encountered up to 1,400 anti shocks or smaller earthquakes. The Alaskan Governor has issued a declaration […]
The Dust Bowl was a difficult time in the midwestern area of the United States. I am personally connected to the Dust Bowl, because my grandfather was living in Northwest Oklahoma when it had all begun. This event had severely destroyed many towns and nature around the affected area. Also, it had a great effect on the people who lived through it, because of housing, crops and terrain being destroyed. Many people had to move away from their homes because […]
Libraries: In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina, one of the extremely destructive and deadly tropical cyclone which influenced landfall along the Gulf coast, becoming to be notorious for the impacts and decimation it brought to Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, south and central Florida, Bahamas. Notwithstanding to Katrina’s phenomenal impacts, the state and the federal government inefficient preparations or readiness for the cyclone and absence of satisfactory measures to its repercussions made one of the most noticeably bad and most costly catastrophic events […]
These catastrophic events can be predicted and prepared for. Hurricane Katrina, however, dealt immense damage. In New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005, citizens were being warned of a disaster so horrible that it would change their lives forever. This event was Hurricane Katrina which lasted from August 23-31. This hurricane was the twelfth one of the season and it was the most devastating. This hurricane affected parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida. It was the most destructive hurricane to hit the […]
This hurricane was the most destructive in the United States. It was extremely tragic with the loss of homes, valuables, and even family. I know that I personally am thankful for the lives that were saved, but with forever remember the lives that were lost. Hurricane is a was a category 3 storm that hit ground near Grand Isle Louisiana. The category of the storm is based on the wind speed. A category 3 storm is considered extremely dangerous because […]
Hurricane Katrina surfaced around the Bahamas on August 23, 2005. It was a very traumatizing storm and it killed many people. There are many different conclusions on how many people actually died. Katrina hit many places in its path, leaving people with absolutely nothing. The O’Colley discovered 3 sources and analyzed the information, and the different sources reported what happened during hurricane Katrina. Source 1 discusses the deaths during hurricane Katrina, source 2 discusses the numbers for evacuations before and […]
The Dust Bowl also known as the dirty 30’s started in the 1930. It was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the U.S. and the soil of the American and Canadian prairies during the 30’s. Severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the event. Great black clouds of dust began to cover the sun. Giant dust storms swallowed large cities and towns..The biggest impact of the Dust Bowl was […]
Hurricane Katrina was the storm that wiped New Orleans off the map in 2005. hurricane Katrina starts off as a tropical depression on Tuesday, August 23rd. katrina made two landfalls the first one was on the southeast Florida coast on August 25th as a Category 1 hurricane with 80mph winds and soon after the storm passes over Florida it moved into the Gulf of Mexico where it became a category five. the second landfall was Monday, August 29, 2005, at […]
In late August of 2005, a hurricane surfaced over the Bahamas, approximately 350 miles East of Miami. This hurricane was not only the largest, but the strongest to ever make landfall in the United States. When all was said and done, a little over a week later, there were roughly 1,836 lives taken. After impacting about 90,000 square miles, this hurricane was named Katrina. The most violent storms on Earth can also go by other names, including cyclones or typhoons, […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search “Snowstorm” redirects here. For other uses, see Snowstorm (disambiguation). A winter storm is an event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form (i. e. freezing rain). In temperate continental climates, these storms are not necessarily restricted to the winter season, but may occur in […]
