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Alaska 1964 tsunami damage and earthquake damage
1989 Alaska volcano Mt. Redoubt
Overview of Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters
• Open a Word Doc
• Take a minute to write down a few
examples of natural disasters
• Class brainstorm
• Google sets lab - did we get all of them?
Earth’s Crust
• Let’s look at the natural disasters related
to the earth’s crust…
• What are they?
– Earthquakes
– Volcanoes
– *Landslides and Tsunamis
During an earthquake, a cow
makes…what?
Milk shakes!
Earthquakes:
• Where do they happen?
Earthquake destruction
March 11, 2011
• Japan earthquake and tsunami
• Water from a 10m high tsunami flowed up
to 10km inland
• This is the world’s
5th
largest earthquake
A tsunami is….
• A destructive sea wave caused by an
earthquake or volcanic eruption
Tsunami
• First hand account: Thailand 2004, due to
the Sumatra (Indonesia) earthquake
Where? When? Why?
Andaman islands
Pompeii (Roman city)
Vesuvius (volcano)
•79 A.D.
•Mt. Vesuvius erupted
•The towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried and between 10,000 and 25,000
people died
•The eruption lasted about 19hrs and was followed by an earthquake
Pompeii
-Lay buried under 9ft of
volcanic ash
-1700s was found
Image swirl
• Pompeii
• What image is the most interesting?
• What did archaeologists find in the 1700s
when they unearthed Pompeii?
Word Wall!
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Make sure you have definitions for:
Earthquake
Volcano
Tsunami