Natural Disasters

Can you name the natural disasters

shown in the coming slides?

purrfectcatshelter.org:8080/james/ideas/idea014.html

It’s an avalanche!

What’s happening?

http://nsidc.org/snow/gallery/avalanche.html

See how the snow tumbles down the

mountain!

http://www.rsiphotos.com/gallery_detail.php?PhotoID=119

A volcanic eruption!

What’s going to happen?

http://www.visualparadox.com/wallpapers/eruption.htm

http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/photogalleries/l/blvolcano15.htm

See how the plantation is scorched by the overflowing lava!

http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/photogalleries/l/blvolcano16.htm

This house has been set ablaze by lava!

http://www.iaca.it/the_times.htm

What has happened to the land?

http://msa.monash.edu.au/representation/enviro/MCCG?D=A

All the plants will die if the drought continues!

http://www.kstwisters.com/

Beware if the sky is overcast like this!

http://www.shakirafanz.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5985

A tornado is approaching!

http://www.bryce.pl/tornado.html

Do you see why a tornado is also called a twister?

http://www.boldering.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t10506.html

Imagine what will happen to the buildings

along the path of a tornado!

http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/97/385/16421_tornado.html

The buildings are all debris now!!!

http://www.ideers.bris.ac.uk/shaken/img/landslide.jpg

What’s going on here?

There has been a landslide!

http://i.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/salvadorquake/landslide.jpg

http://www.planning.org/landslides/docs/main.html

See how the road is damaged!

http://agrolink.moa.my/did/hydro/album/banjir/pages/landslide_Kdipang1.htm

A landslide is often caused by massive flooding

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/China/images/flood0625.jpg

Look at the mess caused by the flood!

Is this Venice?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/images/050624chinaflood.jpg

No. It’s Chinaon June 24, 2005

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/forcesofnature/flooding.html

Are these cars or boats?

http://www.bc-enschede.nl/wgrassroots/vakken/aardrijkskunde

A tsunami is coming!

Are these boats going out surfing?

NO !

http://www.awitness.org/journal/dragon_tsunami.html

The waves are coming inland!

http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1405110610408

Run for your lives!

http://community.webshots.com/photo/yahoo

It’s not smog or fog. It’s a heavy snow

storm!

The visibility is really low today!

http://spine.cx/modules.php?name=Forums&viewtopic=974&9

http://spine.cx/modules.php?name=Forums&viewtopic=974&9

How deep, do you estimate, is the snow?

http://www.fxtech.com/gallery/hail/hail_4

What’s on the ground?

Rain?

Snow?

http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2002/0607hail.htm

It’s a hail storm!

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?