1997 New South Wales Landslide The landslide happened on 1997, July 30 in Thredbo, NSW at a village and ski resort late at night when most residents were in bed. Approximately 1000 tonnes of mud, rock and tress had fallen for a hill side of Alpine Way road which leads to a small ski town. The landslide had happened by pressure from really heavy rain, snow that has melted and transported weathered material. 2000 square metres of liquefied soil with a water flow of 1.7 litres per second took barely a few seconds to move 250 metres
Triggered the largest landslide in recorded history and a major volcanic eruption that scattered ashes across a dozen states. The blast removed 1,300 feet off the top of Mt. St. Helen, making shockwave flow across the land, flattening forests and melting snow and ice, making it all muddy everywhere. A 57 total
It had so much damage that there were 300 people who died from the disaster. The water covered 17 million acres causing 236 million dollars’ worth of damage. It was a strong flood, “it was like facing an angry dark ocean. The wind was fierce enough that that day it tore away roofs, smashed windows, and blew down the smokestack- 130 feet high and 54 inches in diameter- at the giant A.G Wineman & Sons lumber mill”
Links to an external site. . More than 23,000 square miles (60,000 square km) of land was submerged, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, and around 250 people died. However, after several months of heavy rain caused the Mississippi River to swell to unprecedented levels, the first levee (Links to an external site.)
When was the first earthquake in North Carolina recorded? The first recorded earthquake was on March 8th, 1735 near Beth. Another one on February 21st, 1774 this one was quite noticeable speaking there were some reports from Winston Salem through Virginia. How do tsunamis form?
‘A Wall of Mud’ in California, and Warnings to Heed El Niño The article “A Wall of Mud’, in California, and Warnings to Heed El Niño” by Ian Lovett talks about the mudslides and heavy rain in Southern of California. The heavy rain and mud toward the north of Los Angeles on Thursday, resulted in blocking Interstate 5. Therefore all the traffic stopped and many travelers were stuck on the roads. In the article, Jessica Rose talked about how she saw the mudslide.
On May 30 2013 someone was saying to his friend, Ciara“Alright Ciara, I need to tell; you this now. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Also, there’s some bad news… I have to evacuate my home. There’s an extremely large fire maybe 15 miles from my house and heading this way..” and he sent her “I can see the flames from my house!
Not too long ago an 8.0 magnitude earthquake hit northern Chile. That earthquake caused tsunamis and landslides. A tsunami is a long high sea waves caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbances. A landslide is a sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff. It caused millions of coastal residents to evacuate their homes.
As the sludge accumulated and the water built up the pressure became too much. The pressure from the water broke through the dam the sludge created. Black water filled the streets causing building to collapse, killing people in its wake. Those fortunate enough to escape still lost
Imagine it’s April 18, 1906, just another day at your work in San francisco. Suddenly the grounds turns to water beneath you and you fall on your back. Your used to the occasional earthquake but this earthquake will ruin your entire life. For this was the biggest earthquake in all of San francisco history. SF Tourism Tips says, “The San Francisco 1906 Earthquake was one of the largest and most significant in Northern California.
The California earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time…. a foreshock occurred with sufficient force to be felt widely throughout the San Francisco Bay area.... Violent shocks punctuated the strong shaking which lasted some 45 to 60 seconds. The book Dragonwings says, Wood and stone and brick and the very earth became fluidlike…. The whole world had become unglued….
There are a lot of unexpected thing happened to our life. The Valdivia earthquake and Alaskan earthquakes is the most strongest earthquakes that ever happen in the world and this earthquakes are giving both of the two country a very big impact to their population and economy, they also losing a lot of people, housed, money and a huge of the area that earthquakes happened got damage. By the way one of the American author, Thomas Sowell, had said that “All thing are the same except for the differences and different except for the similarities” and that it true however both of them are the top strongest earthquakes but they are some different and similarity between them. Valdivia earthquake and Alaska earthquake are happened in America.
Flooding Disaster Flooding - arrive in overwhelming amounts or quantities or large amounts of water. We are going to talk about how flooding destroy people 's lives and homes around the world. One of the country’s worst flooding disasters occurred February 26, 1972, on Buffalo Creek in Logan County in West Virginia. It was about 8.00a.m a coil waste dam collapsed on the Middle Fork of Buffalo Creek releasing 132 millions gallons of water into the city and destroying everything. Next were are going to talk about another bad flood that is the Mississippi river flood of 1927, on September 1 water poured over a dozen streams and flooded towns of Carroll, Iowa to Peoria and Illinois three hundred miles and fifty miles apart.
The Tohoku Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake recorded to have hit Japan. The earthquake was a magnitude 9.0 off the coasts of Japan that occurred at 2:46pm on Friday 11 March 2011, which triggered a powerful tsunami that reached the height up to 10.4 meters. A Japanese National Police Agency reported 15,889 deaths, 6,152 injured, and 2,601 people missing, 127,290 buildings totally collapse, 272,788 buildings half collapse, and another 747,989 buildings partially damaged. The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami caused severe structural damage in northeastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads, railways and dams, not to mention fires in many areas. It was the toughest and the most difficult crisis in Japan after the World War 2 leaving
How the Mishandling of the Great Earthquake of 1906 Began the Panic of 1907 Natural disasters and macroeconomics are not two topics one would normally think to place together as affecting one another; however, natural disasters have the ability to play a large role in macroeconomics. For example, as tectonic plates ruptured on a chilly, San Franciscan morning in 1906, the American economy soon followed suit in a rupture of its own. Although the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a natural disaster, it is believed that its poor handling set off a chain of events that caused the Panic of 1907. The destructive decisions made primarily by San Francisco’s corrupt Mayor Eugene Schmitz and ruthless Army General Frederick Funston in the aftermath of
