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 […]
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 […]
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Get startedThe 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Winter storm 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The beautiful capital city, Kathmandu, is located in the heart of Nepal and is known for is seismic activity. Though it is an active site, no one was prepared for the magnitude of the Gorkha earthquake on April 25th, 2015. The massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the city and affected roughly 8 million people. The […]
In the early hours of 24 August 2016, an earthquake of magnitude (the amount of energy released) 6.2 struck Central Italy, southeast of the Umbrian town of Norcia, followed by violent aftershocks, causing 297 deaths and approximately 400 injured. Serious damage occurred in the regions of Lazio, Umbria and Marche, historically prone to seismic hazards, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]