Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Fast Facts

Find and post a fascinating fact about one of the natural hazards we have been discussing in class? 

Please no repeats and cite your source! 


76 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did you know that if you are in a fire, it is the smoke that will most likely kill you before the flames?
No source cited, I read this in a book.

Maddi T. said...

Sinkhole Impacts can be minimized.

http://www.sinkhole.org/facts.php

yvette C said...

The first wave of a tsunami is usually not the strongest, successive waves get bigger and stronger.
https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-tsunamis

Anonymous said...

A volcano is a rupture on the crust of a planetary mass object, such as the Earth, which allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano

Anonymous said...

Floods are the most widespread natural disaster aside from wildfires. 90 percent of all U.S. natural disasters declared by the President involve some sort of flooding.

https://www.dosomething.org/actnow/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-disasters

dominic l said...

Between 2000 and 2012, natural disasters caused $1.7 trillion in damage and affected 2.9 billion people.

https://www.dosomething.org/actnow/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-disasters

owenmerola said...

A blizzard is a severe snow storm with winds in excess of 35 mph and visibility of less than a 1/4 mile for more than 3 hours.


https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-blizzards

camden taylor said...

Hurricanes have really strong winds that will push you onto the ground


Source: My brain/discovery channel

Braedon M said...

Every year over 25.8 million people are affected by a natural disaster across the world.

Anonymous said...

Each year about a thousand tornadoes touch down in the United States far more than any other country

Braedon M said...

http://www.disasterium.com/15-facts-about-disasters-you-didnt-know/

Anonymous said...

90% of forest fires are caused by humans.

Dillonleighton said...

The solar flares are almost as hot as the core of the sun and would a big enough sun flare appear
we would be doomed in 2 days then be incinerated. YAY!

Anonymous said...

Volcanoes are the most dramatic and rapid agents of geologic change.

http://ete.cet.edu/gcc/?/volcanoes_teacherpage/#sthash.osvL42Dk.dpuf

Alexis B said...

Each year about a thousand tornadoes happen in the united states.

Matthew B said...

A tsunami is not just one big wave, but a series of waves called a “wave train.” The time period between waves is called the “wave period” and can be between a few minutes and two hours. The first wave is usually not the strongest, and later waves, such as the fifth or sixth, may be significantly larger. Random facts.org

Dillonleighton said...

http://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/five-amazing-facts-about-solar-flares/

matthew said...

tornadoes are a type natural hazard
this is where i got it
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters

Anonymous said...

http://tornado-facts.com/interesting-tornado-facts/

Anonymous said...

A deluge of rain along the Alabama-Florida line left people trapped on the roads and inside their homes Tuesday into Wednesday. The heavy rain stretched into the Mid-Atlantic Thursday, causing flooding and a landslide in a busy Baltimore neighborhood.



http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/severe-weather-tornado-outbreak-late-april-impacts-20140427

Allexius T said...

Over 2.6 billion people have been affected by natural disasters in the past decade.

http://www.live58.org/10-facts-about-natural-disasters

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Anonymous said...

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Kiara M. said...

Every year, floods drive some 75,000 Americans from their homes
http://www.weatherexplained.com/Vol-1/Floods-Flash-Floods.html

Brooke Carman said...

Every year in the United States, natural hazard events threaten lives and livelihoods, resulting in deaths and billions of dollars in damage.


http://www.usgs.gov/natural_hazards/

Anonymous said...

More than 83% of forest fires in 2006 were started by human activities, accounting for the burning of nearly 4.4 million acres. However, lightning-caused fires burned more total area - nearly 5.5 million acres.


http://www.arborday.org/replanting/firecauses.cfm

Jakob P said...

Sinkholes sinkthings

emily b said...

10 facts about disasters and the effects they’ve had in recent years:

Over 2.6 billion people have been affected by natural disasters in the past decade.
The number of natural disasters has quadrupled in the past 30 years.
There have been over 3,400 floods worldwide since 1980.
The cost of damage caused by disasters is 15 times higher than it was 50 years ago.
Geophysical disasters killed an average of 69,098 people per year between 2001-2010.
More than 2,600 severe storms have occurred in the last 30 years.
Hydrological disasters made an average of 106.7 million victims per year between 2001-2010.
The greatest famine in history killed around 45 million people in China between 1958 and 1962.
In 2010, Haiti suffered the deadliest earthquake in almost 500 years, killing over 316,000 people.
The total cost of damage caused by natural disasters in the 1990s reached over $650 billion.

http://www.live58.org/10-facts-about-natural-disasters

Hannah Perkins said...

Sandstorms are caused by strong winds that occur in desert or semi-arid regions.


http://geonews.tamu.edu/weather-whys/857-sandstorms.html

Paige M. said...

To be known as a blizzard, winds have to be 35mph or higher.

-BasicPlanet.com

Alicia F said...

1 The Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean is known to consist 90 percent of the total 1900 active volcanoes all over the world.

2 The country of Chile is known to have faced the largest earthquake ever crossed the path of humanity in the year 1960. It was a whopping 9.5 on the Moment Magnitude scale, which also resulted in a tsunami that caused damage over 9,000 miles away on the California coast, taking away the lives of many.

3 As per, National Geographic channel, in most of avalanche fatalities, the avalanche is started by the sufferer or someone in the sufferer’s party. The difference between life and death can be examined by digging out the victim. Victims rescued within 15 minutes survived are most likely to survive. However the rate drops to 20 to 30 percent after 45 minutes and worsens further on from there.

http://whatthafact.com/interesting-facts-about-natural-disasters/

DARRRRREN said...

sinkholes occur when groundwater causes underground gaps that grow so big the ground above can’t support them. These can be dramatic events, since the holes can grow big enough to swallow a house, a road, a field or a swimming pool, even as those above ground go about their lives completely oblivious to the growing danger.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-lookout/five-facts-sinkholes-214013987.html

Wayne Twombly said...

Air drop - Sometimes firefighters will use airplanes and helicopters to drop water or special firefighting chemicals on fires from the air. These aircraft can carry thousands of gallons of liquid or gel to drop on hard to reach areas of the fire.

http://www.ducksters.com/science/earth_science/forest_fires.php

Kevin D. said...

On average, more than 100,000 wildfires, also called wildland fires or forest fires, clear 4 million to 5 million acres (1.6 million to 2 million hectares) of land in the U.S. every year. In recent years, wildfires have burned up to 9 million acres (3.6 million hectares) of land. A wildfire moves at speeds of up to 14 miles an hour (23 kilometers an hour), consuming everything—trees, brush, homes, even humans—in its path.

There are three conditions that need to be present in order for a wildfire to burn, which firefighters refer to as the fire triangle: fuel, oxygen, and a heat source. Fuel is any flammable material surrounding a fire, including trees, grasses, brush, even homes. The greater an area's fuel load, the more intense the fire. Air supplies the oxygen a fire needs to burn. Heat sources help spark the wildfire and bring fuel to temperatures hot enough to ignite. Lightning, burning campfires or cigarettes, hot winds, and even the sun can all provide sufficient heat to spark a wildfire.

Although four out of five wildfires are started by people, nature is usually more than happy to help fan the flames. Dry weather and drought convert green vegetation into bone-dry, flammable fuel; strong winds spread fire quickly over land; and warm temperatures encourage combustion. When these factors come together all that's needed is a spark—in the form of lightning, arson, a downed power line, or a burning campfire or cigarette—to ignite a blaze that could last for weeks and consume tens of thousands of acres.



http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/wildfires/

Brooke DeCapua said...

Blizzards are usually formed when the jet stream pitches very far south. This allows the cold air that comes from the north to collide with warm air coming from the south. This creates a strong storm system, usually developing on the northwest side of such storm systems.

http://www.basicplanet.com/blizzard/

Cameron M. said...

Hurricane:
The hurricane gets its name from the native american word hurucane, which means evil spirit of the wind and the first person ever to get sucked into a hurricane was in the middle of world warII.

http://www.hurricane-facts.com/Interesting-Hurricane-Facts.php

Chris Payeur said...

The greatest risk in an earthquake is the severity of the shaking it causes to manmade and natural structures and the contents within these that may fail or fall and injure or kill people.


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

Hannah M said...

Knives and forks have been found embedded in tree trunks flung from a tornado.

Abby D. said...

A sinkhole is an area of ground that has no natural external surface drainage--when it rains, all of the water stays inside the sinkhole and typically drains into the subsurface. Sinkholes can vary from a few feet to hundreds of acres and from less than 1 to more than 100 feet deep.

http://water.usgs.gov/edu/sinkholes.html

Anonymous said...

Hurricanes form over water.

Hannah M said...

http://tornado-facts.com/interesting-tornado-facts/ Thats the website I used.

Anonymous said...

A sinkhole can also be known to some as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, or doline. http://plaza.ufl.edu/adifato/

Richie P. said...

The solar flares are almost as hot as the core of the sun and would a big enough sun flare appear
we would be doomed in 2 days then be incinerated.





http://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/five-amazing-facts-about-solar-flares/

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Nadia McElroy said...

1. A tsunami is a series of ocean waves caused by an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption. More rarely, a tsunami can be generated by a giant meteor impact with the ocean. These waves can reach heights of over 100 ft.
2. About 80% of tsunamis happen within the Pacific Ocean’s “Ring of Fire.”
3. The first wave of a tsunami is usually not the strongest, successive waves get bigger and stronger.
4. Tsunamis can travel at speeds of about 500 miles or 805 kilometers an hour, almost as fast as a jet plane.
5. The states in the U.S. at greatest risk for tsunamis are Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California.
6. If caught by a tsunami wave, it is better not to swim, but rather to grab a floating object and allow the current to carry you.
7. Tsunamis retain their energy, meaning they can travel across entire oceans with limited energy loss.
8. Tsunami means “harbor wave” in Japanese (tsu = harbor + nami = wave), reflecting Japan’s tsunami-prone history.
9. Scientists can accurately estimate the time when a tsunami will arrive almost anywhere around the world based on calculations using the depth of the water, distances from one place to another, and the time that the earthquake or other event occurred.
10. Hawaii is always at great risk for a tsunami – they get about 1 per year and a severe one every 7 years. The biggest tsunami that occurred Hawaii happened in 1946, the coast of Hilo Island was hit with 30 ft waves at 500 mph.
11. In 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by an earthquake with the energy of 23,000 atomic bombs. After the earthquake, killer waves radiating from the epicenter slammed into the coastline of 11 countries. The final death toll was 283,000.

Ryan S. said...

The largest recorded earthquake in the United States was a magnitude 9.2 that struck Prince William Sound, Alaska on Good Friday, March 28, 1964 UTC.


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/facts.php

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Lewin P said...

There are on average around 105534 wild fires a year, that's alot!

Site: http://wildland-fires.findthebest.com/app-question/1136/How-many-wildfires-occur-each-year?

DYLAN N said...

Natural hazards are severe and extreme weather and climate events that occur naturally in all parts of the world http://www.wmo.int/pages/themes/hazards/index_en.html

Nadia McElroy said...

https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-tsunamis

Sameena F. said...

Tsunamis can reach speeds of 500 miles per hour! That is as almost as fast as a jet plane!

(Via https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-tsunamis)

Anthony B said...

1. Natural disasters caused US$15 billion in damage to Asian countries.
Countries in the region reported 83 disasters – mostly floods – in 2012. The disasters killed some 3,100 people, affected 64.5 million and left behind US$15 billion in damage.


2. The worldwide death toll was 5,400.
Worldwide, 231 disasters killed some 5,400 people, affected 87 million and caused US$44.6 billion in damage.


3. 78 million people were affected by natural disasters in Asia.
From 1950 to 2011, nine out of 10 people affected by disasters worldwide were in Asia.


http://www.asianscientist.com/2012/12/features/disasters-asias-2012-figures-trends/

JIMBO HATER said...

thats plagerism

Nate P said...

Tornadoes- can cause very bad damage such as sediments in veribale substances such as forks and knives in trees,cars,and other things, also tornados can also move boats and cars on to land

Ian R. said...

Peat moss is a moss that shoots spores out of it's cap to repopulate. This plant is able to spontaneously combust, causing wild fires. This moss covers 1% of the Earth's surface and holds around 95% of the Earth's carbon.


http://plus.maths.org/content/moss-blows-smoke-rings

Isaiah w said...

Blizzards are not as common but they are deadly every time they hit. A severe Blizzard may last for a week with winds at 100 miles a hour.

http://www.antarcticconnection.com/shopcontent.asp?type=weather-storms

Anonymous said...

no its not he gave the page credit

Ashley M said...

The largest recorded earthquake in the United States was a magnitude 9.2 that struck Prince William Sound, Alaska on Good Friday, March 28, 1964 UTC.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/facts.php

cole s said...

tornadoes can be in excess of one mile wide and 50 miles long.


https://www.dosomething.org/.../11-facts-about-disasters

Xx_Aaron_Peter_Mills_xX said...

tor·na·do
tôrˈnādō/Submit
noun
a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
a person or thing characterized by violent or devastating action or emotion.
"a tornado of sexual confusion"

Logan H. said...

About 80% of tsunamis happen within the Pacific Ocean’s “Ring of Fire.”

https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-tsunamis

Xx_Aaron_Peter_Mills_xX said...

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+tornado&oq=what+is+a+to&aqs=chrome.4.69i57j0l5.7675j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8

Antwan M said...

The Closer the Moon is to the earth, the bigger the tsunamis are.

Ana said...

Wildfires start fires in the wild.

kobe d said...

The most powerful Tornadoes occur in the United States.

Lauren M said...

The world has witnessed numerous disasters over the centuries and although most are man-made due to wars and terrorism, mother nature certainly dishes out her fair share of damage. While there are many criteria as to what would be considered the “worst” natural disaster ranging from lives lost to cost incurred, the earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis you are about to witness are all horrific in their own right. Here are the 25 worst natural disasters ever recorded.

http://list25.com/25-worst-natural-disasters-recorded/

tanya .m said...

One that we discussed was rock slides.

Gianna Micucci said...

About 50 to 60 volcano eruptions happen each month. Some volcanoes are in constant activity — Stromboli, Kilauea, or Sakurajima, for example. There are many examples of volcanoes which show some sign of renewed danger and then erupt within an hour, though more commonly, within one day.

www.scholastic.com/teachers/.../volcanic-eruptions

Will H said...

The storm surge from Katrina was 20-ft (six meters) high.

Emily Palmer :) said...

The world has witnessed numerous disasters over the centuries and although most are man-made due to wars and terrorism, mother nature certainly dishes out her fair share of damage. While there are many criteria as to what would be considered the “worst” natural disaster ranging from lives lost to cost incurred, the earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis you are about to witness are all horrific in their own right. Here are the 25 worst natural disasters ever recorded.

http://list25.com/25-worst-natural-disasters-recorded/

Nicole Printy said...

Every year, in the USA, landslides cause approximately $3.5 billion in damage, and kill between 25 and 50 people.

http://landslides4791.weebly.com/interesting-facts.html

Jack B said...

Moonquakes do occur, but they happen less frequently and have smaller magnitudes than earthquakes on the Earth. It appears they are related to the tidal stresses associated with the varying distance between the Earth and Moon.

I got my info from http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/facts.php

Xx_Aaron_Peter_Mills_xX said...

tor·na·do
tôrˈnādō/Submit
noun
a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.


https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+tornado&oq=what+i&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60j69i57j0l3.3262j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8

David Ross said...

If the moon is close to the earth the bigger the tsunami will be bigger.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1367829/Supermoon-Did-tonights-lunar-perigee-cause-Japans-tsunami.html

ethan.scott said...

A tsunami is a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.