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Use the websites below to start your research on your group's natural disaster. You will need to find other sources. Remember to use reliable and relevant sites.

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Questions to guide research about your natural disaster:
1. How common is your natural disaster?
2. Where does it occur- where in the world/country and what time of year.
3. Explain what happens when your natural disaster strikes. What causes your natural disaster to happen?
4. How does the natural disaster affect the land and humans? What damage, destruction deaths could occur?
5. What detects this disaster? How?
6. How can you prepare for the disaster? What can be done during and after the disaster.

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Create a 2 minute news report that includes the perspectives of a "Natural Disaster" expert, News reporter and Victim/s who were affected.
Or write a news article about a natural disaster including the perspectives of a "Natural disaster" expert, victims who were affected, an important person from the town e.g Mayor on how the community will move forward from this devastation.
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Play the stop disasters game for 1 or 2 rounds. Then pick an activity to explore creating defences against natural disasters 

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Create your group's natural disaster page on here. Add information, heapictures and videos to your section on the website.

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Learn more about the causes and effects of natural disasters.

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As a contribution to the building of training to support the communication of tsunami risk to the public, the IOC of UNESCO has developed the TsunamiTeacher Information and Resource Toolkit. The Toolkit brings together a wealth of new and existing information on tsunamis into a single, reliable, and verified global resource that is widely accessible to people, groups and governments around the world.

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Introduction- What is a natural disaster?

The definition of natural disasters is any catastrophic event that is caused by nature or the natural processes of the earth. The severity of a disaster is measured in lives lost, economic loss, and the ability of the population to rebuild. Events that occur in unpopulated areas are not considered disasters. So a flood on an uninhabited island would not count as a disaster, but a flood in a populated area is called a natural disaster.

All natural disasters cause loss in some way. Depending on the severity, lives can be lost in any number of disasters. Falling buildings or trees, freezing to death, being washed away, or heat stroke are just some of the deadly effects. Some disasters cause more loss of life than others, and population density affects the death count as well.
Natural Disasters
- Avalanche

- Thunderstorm

- Earthquake

- Gamma-Ray Burst

- Volcano Eruption

- Hurricane

- Landslide

- Solar Flare

Then there is loss of property, which affects people's living quarters, transportation, livelihood, and means to live. Fields saturated in salt water after tsunamis take years to grow crops again. Homes destroyed by floods, hurricanes, cyclones, landslides and avalanches, a volcanic eruption, or an earthquake are often beyond repair or take a lot of time to become livable again. Personal effects, memorabilia, vehicles, and documents also take a hit after many natural disasters.

The natural disasters that really affect people worldwide tend to become more intense as the years go on. Frequency of earthquakes, mega storms, and heat waves has gone up considerably in the last few decades. Heavy population in areas that get hit by floods, cyclones, and hurricanes has meant that more lives are lost. In some areas, the population has gotten somewhat prepared for the eventuality of disasters and shelters are built for hurricanes and tornadoes. However, loss of property is still a problem, and predicting many natural disasters isn't easy.

Scientists, geologists, and storm watchers work hard to predict major disasters and avert as much damage as possible. With all the technology available, it's become easier to predict major storms, blizzards, cyclones, and other weather related natural disasters. But there are still natural disasters that come up rather unexpectedly, such as earthquakes, wildfires, landslides, or even volcanic eruptions. Sometimes, a time of warning is there, but it's often very short with catastrophic results. Areas that are not used to disasters affected by flash floods or sudden hail storms can be affected in an extreme way.

However, despite the many natural disasters the world over, mankind has shown amazing resilience. When an area or country is badly affected by a natural disaster, the reaction is always one of solidarity and aid is quick to come. There are organizations set up with the primary goal of being prepared for natural disasters. These groups work on global and local scale rescue work. Aside from those who have chosen to make disaster relief their life-work, when disasters hit, it's the individuals who step in who help to make a difference.

Many people talk about when a disaster has hit and their neighbors and countrymen have come to aid, often to their own loss. People will step in and donate items, time, and skills in order to help those affected by a natural disaster. Celebrities will often do what they can to raise money through concerts, phone marathons, and visiting affected areas with aid. People have also shown that they can rebuild, lives can be remade or start over. Trauma is a big after effect of natural disasters and getting counseling has been the focus of aid-to heal emotionally as well as physically.

It's clear that natural disasters are a part of life as we know it. However, science is making it more possible to predict, aid is faster at coming, and people are learning how to rebuild in safer areas.

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The definition of natural disasters is any catastrophic event that is caused by nature or the natural processes of the earth. The severity of a disaster is measured in lives lost, economic loss, and the ability of the population to rebuild. Events that occur in unpopulated areas are not considered disasters.

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Education resources for schools teachers and students - ABC Education

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ABC Education has 4000+ educational games, videos and teaching resources for schools and students. Free Primary and Secondary resources covering history, science, English, maths and more

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Using a sketching program such as sketch up to design a house that would withstand a natural disaster. Provide labels and justification of why you have desgined it this way. Post finished product on padlet.

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Updated November 09, 2018 22:02:38

A magnitude-5.4 earthquake has hit the Lake Muir area of Western Australia, about 330 kilometres from Perth, with residents across the state's south-west feeling its effects.

The earthquake struck south-east of Manjimup just after 5:00am at a depth of 7 kilometres, and was felt as far away as Perth and Albany.

More than 2,500 people have lodged reports with Geoscience Australia after the tremor, but there have been no reports of major damage.

It is the second large earthquake to hit the area within two months, following a magnitude-5.7 tremor on September 16, and locals fear a bigger one could be on the way.

Many residents in Perth described being woken up by the latest earthquake and reported buildings shaking.

"There's nobody else in my bed and my bed went rocking," Guildford local Sue told ABC Radio Perth.

In the Great Southern region, Kojanup resident Jane Beswick, who lives about 70 kilometres north-east of where the quake struck, said she was also woken up.

"It was eight minutes past five because I looked at the clock as soon as I felt the tremor," she said.

"The wardrobe started rattling because I've got timber floors and the house shook."

'Like a train going through'

Pemberton resident Debra O'Donnell said her whole house shook and the quake was "quite violent".

"This one was really big, it shook the whole house," she said.

"It was like the whole roof was going to cave in.

"It felt like a train going through and we don't have trains here."

Bridgetown resident Frank said it was the largest tremor he had felt since moving to the area almost 15 years ago.

"There was like a rush of wind ... and then the house started moving and rumbling and shaking. It was very loud," he said

600 quakes in a few months

Geoscience Australia senior seismologist Jonathan Bathgate said there was a "little bit of increased activity" around Lake Muir following the magnitude-5.7 earthquake in September.

"Prior to this magnitude-5.4, the largest earthquake in the aftershock sequence was a 4.6 that occurred on October 12," he said.

"So the activity has been fairly consistent over the last few months in that area, and we've located more than 600 earthquakes in that period."

Dr Bathgate said most of them were very small and would not have been felt, but damage was considered possible around magnitude-5 and up.

"This magnitude 5.4 is quite similar to what occured in Newcastle in 1989 in terms of the magnitude, so that would put it in perspective to for a lot of people familiar with that earthquake," he said.

The Newcastle earthquake was one of Australia's worst natural disasters, killing 13 people and injuring more than 160.

Farmers worried after 'more violent' strike

Farmer Mark Muir's property at Mordalup is close to the epicentre of the latest earthquake and the last large one in September.

"This one here was a lot more violent than the original one we had here," he said.

"It wasn't as loud, but it shook us all up, made us jump out of bed and think twice."

"We all think that there is a bigger quake to come. When, we don't know, [but] that's the general feeling."

Mr Muir's neighbour Rob de Campo discovered cracks zigzagging across his paddocks following the September quake.

He said he was concerned the tremors would get bigger.

"It's sort of exciting but I tell you what, I'm really over it," he said.

"I just wish it would go back to sleep ... because at the same time, especially at night time, it is very frightening."

Warning of aftershocks to come

Professor Chris Elders from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences said there would certainly be aftershocks from the earthquake, but it was very difficult to predict what size they would be.

"In the past 100 years, there have been about 60 earthquakes of this magnitude," he said.

"Normally they don't occur so frequently one after another ... normally there's a little bit of time between them, but it's just a consequence of the fact that the tectonic plates that make up the earth's surface are moving all the time.

"All we can really do is understand areas that are prone to earthquake risk and be prepared for an earthquake when it might happen.

"So the important thing there is to make sure that the building codes are properly enforced to withstand the likely magnitude of earthquakes."

Mr Bathgate said the south-west corner of Western Australia was very seismically active.

"This part of the country is where we record nearly half of Australia's earthquakes every year," he said.

"It's not unheard of to have a large earthquake in amongst an aftershock sequence like this.

"Unfortunately, we can't say whether there is going to be any further large activity like this."

First posted November 09, 2018 09:43:46

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'Violent' earthquake shakes south-west WA - and there could be more to come

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Updated November 09, 2018 22:02:38 A magnitude-5.4 earthquake has hit the Lake Muir area of Western Australia, about 330 kilometres from Perth, with residents across the state's south-west feeling its effects. The earthquake struck south-east of Manjimup just after 5:00am at a depth of 7 kilometres, and was felt as far away as Perth and Albany.

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Another, even more powerful earthquake rocked Southern California on Friday (July 5). The temblor, which struck not far from the town of Ridgecrest in the Mojave Desert, registered as a magnitude 7.1, which is larger than the one that rocked the same general region on Thursday (July 4), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. That quake, a magnitude 6.4, was the largest to strike Southern California in 20 years, and was felt as far as Los Angeles.

Today's monster quake caused injuries, fires and rockslides, and left more than 3,000 people without power. Shaking was felt as far away San Jose, about 260 miles (418 kilometers) from Ridgecrest, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Since the magnitude-6.4 quake on Thursday, more than 1,000 aftershocks have struck the area, CBS News reported. So Friday's powerful ground-shaking was not a complete surprise.

In fact, seismologists warned earlier Friday that additional quakes were likely in the next week, and said there was a 9% chance of a quake larger than Thursday's temblor striking the area, Live Science reported. Seismologists now think that the fault system responsible for the quakes is growing, and residents of Ridgecrest and the nearby desert town of Trona can't breathe easy just yet. Aftershocks to this quake, which is now considered a "foreshock," are very likely, experts said.

"There's a 5% chance that this could be followed by an even larger quake," USGS seismologist Robert Graves said at a news conference on Friday, as reported by the LA Times.

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An Even Larger Quake Just Rocked Southern California. Experts Say the Fault System Is Growing.

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Another, even more powerful earthquake rocked Southern California on Friday (July 5). The temblor, which struck not far from the town of Ridgecrest in the Mojave Desert, registered as a magnitude 7.1, which is larger than the one that rocked the same general region on Thursday (July 4), according to the U.S.

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THE mud may have washed away, but the scars remain in the hearts of Maryborough residents.

This time six years ago, more than 20 Maryborough businesses were filled with muddy water, and people were stranded in their homes.

The date was January 11, 2011, and Maryborough was experiencing its worst flood since the 1990s.

Over the next two days, 26 businesses were inundated, with losses totalling $4.5 million with a further $12 million in damages to Fraser Coast Regional Council infrastructure.

Melissa White from Earles Paint Place in Adelaide St said she remembered how quickly her team had to work to move the entire store's paint supply to higher ground, in a race against rapidly rising waters.

"It was a quick one too as I remember, there wasn't a lot of warning and I wasn't able to get in again [after the floor was cleared], I remember I wasn't able to get into the shop because it was so quick, I was stuck at home," Ms White said.

"We pulled all the stock up and had it all ready and then we had to pull it all down after that."

"It was worrying yes, it was just lapping the top steps, but it came into the bottom of the store and underneath," she said.

"We used to have the bottle shop in underneath the back of the shop in 2011, so the bottle shop then was [flooded], it got quite damaged and we had to redo some panels, but we knew it was going to happen, we know we're in a flood area."

Ms White said owning a store in a flood-prone area meant inundation was something they always prepared for around this time of year.

"We prepare for it every year anyway but it's always devastating when it comes through," she said.

By the second day of the floods, The Pocket in Maryborough was also isolated.

Kevin Cordy has been living in The Pocket for 70 years, and has seen his fair share of Maryborough floods.

"We had no warning, it came up very quick," Mr Cordy said.

"On the Friday, January 7 at 6pm, the water was just over the bank a little bit, but by 1am that night it had come up very quick, it came up very close.

"Normally floods come from Gympie and we have two or three days notice, this time it came up very fast, in six hours, and from a lot closer."

It was around midnight that Mr Cordy heard a knock at his front door; it was his neighbour desperately asking for help to bring in his cattle.

But it was too late.

"I was able to get all of my cattle up in time, but my neighbour actually lost some," he said.

"Some they found, some they found dead, they've got room to put them up, but they couldn't get to that paddock before the water got there first."

Mr Cordy and other residents in The Pocket were stranded for three days until the water levels fell below the road.

"I'm on a hill, the water comes up and surrounds us, but it's something we're always prepared for," he said.

"I live on a farm and the wife has enough food in our pantry for about for six years, so there was no issue there.

"We just had to sit there and wait for the water to clear."

It would be two years later when Maryborough would be hit by a more devastating flood on Australia Day, with water levels reaching more than 10 metres.

More than 60 CBD businesses were hit and $15m in damage caused to council infrastructure.

The council is now working on a multi-million dollar flood levy in the Maryborough CBD to prevent serious future damage, but that will not protect every business or home in the CBD.

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2011 floods: Survivors recall the fast-moving waters

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THE mud may have washed away, but the scars remain in the hearts of Maryborough residents. This time six years ago, more than 20 Maryborough businesses were filled with muddy water, and people were stranded in their homes. The date was January 11, 2011, and Maryborough was experiencing its worst flood since the 1990s.

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GEOPRÆVENT AG - Electronic monitoring of natural hazards

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Climate change affects natural hazards and will cause more frequent and severe natural disasters in the future ( SwissRe, 2014). Alpine regions are expected to face an increase in permafrost melting, floods, debris flows, rockfall and avalanches that can cause serious damage. In addition to direct damage costs, various indirect costs are generated, such as delays in transportation due to road or railway closures or business interruption losses. In 2012, the rockfall in Gurtnellen caused estimated costs of 10-20 million Swiss francs due to the interruption of railway services ( Tagesanzeiger, 2012 in German).

In order to prevent damage and associated costs, early warning systems have proved highly beneficial. Early warning systems for natural hazards have seen tremendous development in recent years. They offer powerful and cost-effective alternatives as well as extension options to traditional structural measures ( ISDR, 2007). Early warning systems enable preventative measures and damage reduction by providing early information on an imminent event.

Two categories of early warning systems

Early warning systems for natural hazards are classified into two categories: alarm and warning systems ( Sättele et al., 2012). While warning systems detect precursors of a potential event and allow for early planning of according measures (days to weeks), alarm systems on the other hand detect the actual event itself with a short lead time (few seconds to minutes). Alarm system automatically trigger predefined measures if a certain threshold is exceeded.

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Early warning: Alarm or warning system? | Geopraevent AG

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Climate change affects natural hazards and will cause more frequent and severe natural disasters in the future ( SwissRe, 2014). Alpine regions are expected to face an increase in permafrost melting, floods, debris flows, rockfall and avalanches that can cause serious damage.

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Write up a safety plan for when a natural disaster occurs. What can you do to prepare for a natural disaster?
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Know what disasters and hazards could affect your area, how to get emergency alerts, and where you would go if you and your family need to evacuate. Make sure your family has a plan and practices it often.

Download the FEMA App to get preparedness strategies, real-time weather and emergency alerts.

Order Free Preparedness Materials

Order free preparedness materials from FEMA's online ordering platform. These materials can be shipped directly to you at no cost.

Hazard Information Sheets

Use these two-sided information sheets to learn more about how to prepare for, keep safe during, and respond to hazards. Learn more about the research behind these information sheets on FEMA's Protective Actions Research site.

Are You Ready? Guide

This comprehensive guide provides detailed information on how best to prepare for disasters within families and communities. Learn general disaster preparedness tips and best practices to inform your planning.

Document and Insure Your Property (PDF)

Disasters are a matter of when, not if. Make sure you're prepared by documenting your property and ensuring that you have the insurance coverage you need.

Know Your Alerts and Warnings (PDF)

When disaster strikes, know who to turn to for updates, alerts, and warnings. This guide outlines the U.S. alert and warning systems and the information you can expect to receive from each source.

A Guide for Alerts and Warnings (PDF)

Learn what to do when you get a hazard alert at home or in the car! The Guide for Alerts and Warnings has information about 17 hazards, their alerts, and the protective actions you can take to stay safe.

Safeguard Critical Documents and Valuables (PDF)

Be prepared for any disaster by safeguarding documents and valuables. This guide includes a checklist to help you prepare your documents should you need to file an insurance claim after a disaster.

12 Ways to Prepare (PDF)

This 9" x 6" cardstock postcard describes 12 key ways that you can prepare for disasters. Just add a USPS mailing sticker to the back to send to community members.

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Know what disasters and hazards could affect your area, how to get emergency alerts, and where you would go if you and your family need to evacuate. Know what disasters and hazards could affect your area, how to get emergency alerts, and where you would go if you and your family need to evacuate.

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