https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks Natural Disasters en-us 2022-04-26 16:09:37 UTC 2022-05-15 03:26:30 UTC hello@padlet.com 0512200902346 https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170597520 Mount vesuvius erupts
Mount Vesuvius, a volcano near the Bay of Naples in Italy, has erupted more than 50 times. Its most famous eruption took place in the year 79 A.D., when the volcano buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under a thick carpet of volcanic ash. The dust “poured across the land” like a flood, one witness wrote, and shrouded the city in “a darkness…like the black of closed and unlighted rooms]]> 2022-05-04 21:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170597520 0512200902346 https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170605936 Shaanxi province earthquake of 1556, (Jan. 23, 1556), massive earthquake in Shaanxi province in northern China, believed to be the deadliest earthquake ever recorded. The earthquake (estimated at magnitude 8) struck Shaanxi and neighbouring Shanxi province to the east early on Jan. 23, 1556, killing or injuring an estimated 830,000 people]]> 2022-05-04 21:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170605936 0512200902346 https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170606791 The 1906 earthquake preceded the development of the Richter magnitude scale by three decades. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the quake on the modern moment magnitude scale is 7.9;^[1] values from 7.7 to as high as 8.3 have been proposed]]> 2022-05-04 21:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170606791 0512200902346 https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170607791 What was the 1931 Central China Floods death toll: Estimates vary widely because figures for individual rivers have been confused with totals for all three. The consensus is not less than three to four million dead, and 50 to 80 million left homeless. Millions more died from their injuries or diseases arising from the floods (or both)]]> 2022-05-04 21:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170607791 0512200902346 https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170608518 Hurricane Katrina, tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in late August 2005. The hurricane and its aftermath claimed more than 1,800 lives, and it ranked as the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.]]> 2022-05-04 21:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170608518 0512200902346 https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170609391 The 2009 Honduras earthquake occurred on May 28 of that same year at 08:24:45 UTC (02:24:45 AM local time). The epicenter was located in the Caribbean Sea, 64 km (39 miles) northeast of the island of Roatan and 130 km (80 miles) north-northeast of La Ceiba.]]> 2022-05-04 21:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170609391 0512200902346 https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170622009 The quake comes over a decade after a disastrous 7.0-magnitude shock in 2010 that struck closer to the country’s capital of Port-au-Prince, killing an estimated 220,000 people and causing extensive damage to Haiti’s infrastructure and economy.]]> 2022-05-04 21:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170622009 0512200902346 https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170631720 Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011, also called Great Sendai Earthquake or Great Tōhoku Earthquake, severe natural disaster that occurred in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. The event began with a powerful earthquake off the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan’s main island, which caused widespread damage on land and initiated a series of large tsunami waves that devastated many coastal areas of the country, most notably in the Tōhoku region (northeastern Honshu). The tsunami also instigated a major nuclear accident at a power station along the coast]]> 2022-05-04 21:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170631720 0512200902346 https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170645163 Hurricanes Eta and Iota are the most severe natural phenomenon that has affected Honduras in more than 20 years. After making landfall in Nicaragua on November 3, 2020, Category 4 Hurricane Eta brought torrential rains and winds of up to 275 km/h in northern Honduras.]]> 2022-05-04 22:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/0512200902346/Bookmarks/wish/2170645163