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Natural Disasters - Coggle Diagram
Natural Disasters
Landslide
- Common in the united states
- Causes property damage and death
- 54 degrees of farhrenheit, 50 times hotter than the sun
- The bases of steep slopes, developed slops
Flood
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- Kill more than one hundred people (average)
- 6.4 billion dollars of damage int he united states
- Intense rainfall (short period)
Thunderstorm
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- Produces lighning (a lot)
- Each year people are killed/injured
- Lighting and wind (deadly combo)
tornado
- Ratings from 0 to 5 to determine the tornado wind speed
- Usually develop from severe thunderstorm
- Enough power to destroy an entire city
- Unable to be found in in Antarctic
Volcano
- Built by surface accumulation
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- Steam and gases -volcano eruptions
- Gases drive the molten rocks and a eruption occurs
Wildfires
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- Surface fires, spread rapidly by wind, more than 3rd out of 5 is made by humans
- Small fires can wipe out communities of their own
Lightning
- Takes place beneath clouds
- Has enough power to destroy everything in no time
Hurricane
- Formed when ocean water with the temperature above 80 degrees and the wind blows the same
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Tsunami
- Greater speeds int he ocean int he deep water
- Great lost of the population and property damage in the costal areas
Earthquakes
- May cause landslides, avalanches
- Ground displacement causes even more property damage