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NATURAL DISASTERS
BY KAE'LYNN MOORE
TORNADOES
A tornado is a
funnel-shaped
cloud made up
violently
rotating winds
that can reach
Speeds of up to
300 miles per
hour. Tornadoes
occur inside
giant
thunderstorms
Known as super
cells these
powerful
storms form
when warm
moist air along
the
Ground.
Hurricanes are giant spiraling tropical
storms that can pack wind speeds of over
160 miles (257kilometers) an hour and
unleash more than 2.4 trillion gallons (9
trillion liters) of rain a day
These same tropical storms are known as
cyclones in the northern Indian Ocean and
Bay of Bengal and as typhoons in the
western Pacific Ocean.
Earthquake facts
Earthquakes are
also called
temblors can be
so tremendously
destructive it's
hard to imagine
they occur by the
thousands every
day around the
world usually in
the form of smell
tremors.
On average there are
18 major earthquake
and one great
earthquake each
year.
Some 80 percent of
all the planet's
earthquake occur
along the rim of the
Pacific Ocean called
the "Ring of fire"
because of the
preponderance of
volcanic activity
there as well.
Volcanoes
Volcanoes are
awesome
manifestations of
the fiery power
contained deep
within the Earth's
surface where
molten rock
debris and gases
from the planets
interior are
emitted.
A volcano is a
rupture in the
crust of
planetary-mass
object such as
earth that allows
hot lava