• 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)

•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

Vesuvius (volcano)

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!

• Make sure you have definitions for:

• Earthquake

• Volcano

• Tsunami