Natural Disasters

There are many types of dangerous natural disasters! Some are deadly landslides, lethal earthquakes, and magma spouting volcanoes. They’re all cool but extremely dangerous!

First of all, treacherous landslides are incredibly dangerous! Landslides usually occur in the Appalacian or Rocky Mountains, or the Pacific Coast. Some states where they occur are California, Oregon, Hawaii, and Alaska. In Switzerland there was a rockslide called the Goladau Rockslide and it destroyed 4 villages! That’s really powerful!

Also, powerful earthquakes are lethally dangerous! There’s a book called Earthquake Terror that’s about a big earthquake on a remote island. Abby and Jonathan Palmer have to survive a huge earthquake on the very remote Magpie Island. They just barely made it out by taking shelter under 2 fallen trees stacked on top of each other. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was even worse. It had an unbelievable magnitude of 0.8! But it’s really sad because over 5000 people died. Earthquakes can be extremely dangerous.

Lastly, amazing volcanoes are beautiful but dangerous! There is also a book called Volcanoes that talks about volcanoes. It stated that volcanoes are usually on the line of fire, which runs along the pacific coast. It also talks about how Hawaii was formed. Volcanoes grew through cracks in the pacific plate and kept erupting until finally the cooled lava built up to the surface to make land. That’s also why Hawaii has volcanoes. Then there was the Mt. St. Helens eruption. It happened extremely suddenly and the eruptions force was equal to 10000000 tons of dynamite. Geez!

In conclusion, natural disasters happen all over the planet. They may hurt sometimes, but they also can help. The ones stated are just 3 from a large spectrum!

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