natural disasters

NATURAL DISASTERSBAKIEVA ELVIRA

TSUNAMI- IS A HUGE WAVE

CAUSED BY AN EARTHQUAKE

Thailand.

26 December

2004

26 DECEMBER 2004 WILL BE REMEMBERED IN HISTORY

AS THE DATE OF THE MOST DEVASTATING NATURAL

DISASTERS OF MODERN TIMES.

HURRICANE – IS AN EXTREMELY

VIOLENT WIND OR STORM.

ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE

HURRICANES IN U.S HISTORY

WAS HURRICANE KATRINA IN 2005

FLOOD – IS A LARGE AMOUNT OF WATER

THAT COVERS AN AREA WHICH IS

USUALLY DRY

LAST YEAR THERE WAS THE BIGGEST

FLOOD IN THE FAR EAST OF OUR

COUNTRY. IT LASTED FOUR MONTHS.

Drought – is

a period with

no rains

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCES SUFFER BIG LOSSES

DURING DROUGHTS AND AS A RESULT WE SEE

PRICE INCREASE

TYPHOON – IS A KIND OF TROPICAL

CYCLONE WHICH IS TYPICAL FOR THE

NORTH-WEST PACIFIC

TYPHOON HAIYAN IS ONE OF THE MOST

DEVASTATING TYPHOONS OF THE RECENT

PERIOD. IT CLAIMED THE LIVES OF

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

EARTHQUAKE – IS A SHAKING OF

GROUND. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST

DEVASTATING DISASTERS

ONE OF THE LARGEST EARTHQUAKES IN OUR

COUNTRY WAS ON 25 MAY IN 1995 ON

SAKHALIN ISLAND.

TORNADO – IS A VIOLENT WIND STORM

WHICH CONSISTS OF A TALL COLUMN OF

AIR SPINNING AROUND VERY FAST

EVERY YEAR PEOPLE IN THE NORTH

AMERICA SUFFER FROM VARIOUS

TORNADOES IN SPRING AND SUMMER

AVALANCHE- IS A LARGE MASS OF SNOW

FALLING DOWN THE SIDE OF A

MOUNTAIN

AVALANCHES ARE DANGEROUS FOR

SKIERS AND CLIMBERS