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Natural Disasters
Knowing your natural disasters
both Natural and Human Made

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 What is a Natural Disaster?
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• A natural disaster is any sort of disaster

that can come in numerous forms and
intensities.
• Preparing for a natural disaster is crucial
for the survival of anyone involved.
• Natural Disasters can and will happen all
over the world and at any time of the day
or year.

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 Natural Disasters caused by Nature
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• Tornadoes • Snow Squalls

• Blizzards • Extreme Cold
• Hurricanes • Extreme Heat
• Cyclones • Weather Bombs
• Monsoons • Windchill
• Earthquakes • Humidex
• Forest Fires • Avalanches
• Floods • And many more…

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 Tornadoes
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• Tornadoes can occur • Differ from hurricanes

in the periods in the fact that
between June and strongest pressure of
October the storm is inside,
• The classification where has hurricane
system of Tornadoes is outside
is called the Fujita • Tornadoes are
scale, and can range convergent meaning
from 1 (mildest) – 5 they come together in
(severe) a funnel.
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• Tornadoes happen in
tornado alley usually in
the middle east, where
warm tropical air near the
surface is met with cool
air at top
• Green brown in color
• Sounds like a train when
the tornado occurs.
• Following you will see a
map of Tornadoes weathereye.kgan.com/.../
twister_small.jpg

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Map of Tornadoes
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 Blizzards
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• A major snowstorm
• Characterized by the
following:
– High wind speed
– Duration of 4 hrs or
more
– 20 + cm of snow
– Blowing snow
– Low Visibility

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 Hurricanes
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• Usually have the following:

– 2 strong parts with an eye in the center
– Usually only occur in the Atlantic, and
Caribbean
– Are arranged along a mesoscale event
– Usually can be from small to very heavy.
– On the following slide, you will see a map of
Hurricanes showing various strengths

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 Cyclones
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• These normally have the

following:
– In the pacific area, they do
not occur in the Caribbean
or Atlantic
– They are usually
counterclockwise in the
Southern Hemisphere and
the storms up in Northern
Hemisphere are clockwise.

zebu.uoregon.edu/ ph121/l15.html
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 Monsoons
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• Usually you will find:

– In Asian and Eastern
parts of Africa
– Usually the climate is
a very long period of
dry weather found by a
short period of VERY
wet weather.
– People can be killed
during monsoons.

www.mrdowling.com/ 612-monsoon.html
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Map of Monsoonal Weather

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 Earthquakes
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• Earthquakes are:
– Shaking and trembling
– Caused along the fault
lines
– Two types, can be a
subduction, or one that
glides
– A richter scale is used
to determine
magnitude from 0.0 –
9.
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 Forest Fires
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• Forest Fires can be:

– Made by humans being
very inattentive to the
situation around them
– Can be made naturally
from nature or pests like
the “pine beetle”
– Can be made by weather
i.e.: wind and lightning
– Last year BC had it worst
ever made fire season both
from all the reasons above!

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 Floods
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• Floods can be caused by:

– Weather storms
– Backed up sewage or storm drains from
leaves and other products
– Negligence of humans
– On next page you will see a map of floods

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Map of Floods

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 Snow Squalls
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• Snow Squalls are:

– Brief but powerful
snowstorms that can
occur from the lakes in
the northern midwest
and the central
Canada around the
great lakes
– Can follow same
qualities as blizzards. cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/
misc/990212.html

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 Extreme Cold
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• Usually is
– When there is serious
wind chills or when
there is serious cold
temperatures outside.
– You should wear the
clothing outlined in the
next column.

atic.phys.lsu.edu/.../ToMcMurdo/
ToMcMurdo01.html

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 Extreme Heat
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• Extreme Heat:
– When the temperatures get unseasonably hot
and it can occur i.e. summer in Chicago
– When there is very strong UV rays
– Chart to follow on next page…

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Extreme Heat Chart

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 Weather Bombs
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• These can be similar

what happened to
Eastern Canada in
the Maritimes this
year where 80+ cm of
snow occurs within a
very short period of
time.
marksquires.com/images/ bliz2.jpg

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 Windchill
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• This is when your skins can get frost bite if you

stay out in the cold too long
• This is the temperature
of what it feels like against the skin.
• On next page, you will see a diagram

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Windchill Map

www.crh.noaa.gov/bis/
newwindchill.htm

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 Humidex
• This is when the temperatures can get too hot to
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give you heat exhaustion or heat stroke and

should be prepared for!

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 Avalanches
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• These basically occur

when there is warmer
temperatures at the
top of a hill followed
by cooler
temperatures down
lower followed by
unstable snow packs.

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 Natural Disasters caused by
Humans
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• Oil Spills • Fires

• Land Slides from • Building Collapses
Logging • Clear Cutting
• Chemical Spills • Deforestations
• Contamination of the • And much more
drinking water
• Global Warming

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 Oil Spills
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• Happens when:
– Ships or other
transportation or any
vehicle is not
inspected properly for
possible leakages.
– When people put used
oil down the storm
drains and into the
lakes and rivers
www.copdel.com/ products.htm

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 Landslides from Various Actitivites
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• Logging and other

activities like this can
uproot the land to
cause a landslide
• Also when there is
manmade dams,
aquifers etc. that are
also put on mountains
with deep digging.

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 Chemical Spills
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• Industrial chemicals in
factories, cargo, and
other transportation
fleet could leak toxic
chemicals into the
waters.
• On dry land, spills can
occur in the science
labs and other related
labs. www.co.snohomish.wa.us/.../
pollnphotos.htm
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 Contamination of Drinking Water
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• Contamination of
Water can occur:
– Chemicals or oil spills
soaking into aquifers
or ocean
– Too many minerals in
the water or sources of
drinking
– Acid Rain
– Human or animal
waste

europa.eu.int/water/water-bathing/
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 Global Warming
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• Pollution is the major

cause of global
warming, and we the
population, can curve
the pollution, and
control the amount
that gets into our
waterways, into our
skies, and into our
space in general.

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 Fires
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• There are several

types of fires like
structure, car,
garbage etc., that are
usually caused by the
carelessness of
people. Some may
be from popping in
firecrackers, not
properly disposing of www.al911.org/cleburne/
materials etc. images/Fire/house4.jpg

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 Building Collapses
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• Each year this type of

problem affects many
people in the world.
• Some areas don’t
have proper building
codes, and other
regulations to keep
their buildings around
them safe.
theory.tifr.res.in/.../ housing/collapse.html

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 Clear Cutting
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• This is occurring in a
lot more areas. This
is also raising the risk
of global warming,
because the CO2 is
getting higher.

www.wbu.com/chipperwoods/
photos/clarks.htm

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 Deforestation
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• This is where there is

practically no forests
for example with the
oakanagan park fire.

www.davestravelcorner.com/
photos/costarica/

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 Natural Disasters Presentation
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• Now you know a little bit about the various

types of natural disasters that can occur,
and the natural and human made natural
disasters.
• Feel free to ask questions or provide
comments of info to clear up in your mind
a particular point that you would be
interested in pondering about.

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