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…environment and safety. These rapid changes are known as natural disasters. These include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, typhoons (hurricanes), tsunamis, floods, droughts, fires, and other events which are indications of interactions of mass and energy…

…, were likely caused by strong seismic shaking. Sand layers on top of the buried coastal marshes, were driven in from offshore bars by the wave of the large tsunami that rushed into the subsided coastal region. The Tsunami or gigantic oceanic waves can…

…on a school-sponsored trip to Revelstoke, British Columbia were killed in an avalanche. That fateful day, the avalanche rating was considerable (or amber). Tsunami <Tab/>A tsunami is a towering ocean wave produced by an undersea earthquake…

…. The Tsunami in Indonesia On Dec. 26, 2004, at 7:59 AM local time, an undersea earthquake of 9.0 struck the coast of the island of Sumatra. Over the next seven hours, a tsunami--a series of enormous ocean waves--caused by the earthquake stretched across the Indian…

…largest recorded eruption occurred on August 26, 1883. A sample of its destructive power is the forty metre tsunami wave caused by the eruption, when the wave hit, a Dutch Steamship anchored at a nearby harbour was thrown two and a half kilometres and washed up…

…, is quite concentrated, so there will be greater loss of lives and property if the epicentre is near the fishing village. As the fishing village is near a coastal area, there might be tsunamis (big and destructive waves). This would cause the houses to collapse…

…and tsunamis To hit To Hawaii, Japan, and a small part of the united west coast. Besides the major death and injury tolls that these countries faced, They all faced serious economic problems Which added up to nearly $680,000,000 Due to the earthquake. The decision…

…attacks, and how much Americans really care about this country, it always brings some more current events to mind. For example, the massive tsunamis in 2004 and the devastating hurricanes in 2005. Both of these disasters had the same outcome, if not worse than…

…. Earthquakes that occur under the ocean cause tsunamis. Tsunamis are huge waves that are barely noticeable until they approach coastal areas, where the waves can reach over twenty meters in height and flood the area. In order to minimize the damage…

…area, so the once cooler mantle becomes hot, and the hot mantle becomes cool. They then switch, and keep switching, and pushing the plates. These plates are the cause of earthquakes, tsunamis, the creation of mountains, rift valleys, and volcanoes…