Natural_Disaster_Tournament

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EXTREME WEATHER AND NATURAL DISASTERS 1. Take notes on each of the disasters in the following boxes. Focus your notes on the type of disaster, cost of the damage, Human costs such as amount of people killed, and physical damage. 1931 Chinese Flood COST OF DAMAGE: unknown HUMAN COSTS: 3.7million people perished PHYSICAL DAMAGE : Gayou Lake Dam breaks and sends water through its surrounding areas 2010 Haitian Earthquake COST OF DAMAGE : 13billion HUMAN COSTS : over 316k deaths PHYSICAL DAMAGE: Haiti was destroyed
2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami COST OF DAMAGE: 240billion HUMAN COSTS: 18.4k deaths PHYSICAL DAMAGE: Level 7 nuclear incidents in 3 of the power core reactors. Water from the tsunami destroyed everything it touched. 1900 Galveston Hurricane COST OF DAMAGE: $30mil at the time, $22bil today HUMAN COSTS: 8k deaths at least PHYSICAL DAMAGE: Left chaos for Galveston and a lot of physical damage 2017 Hurricane Harvey COST OF DAMAGE: $125bil HUMAN COSTS: 107 deaths at least PHYSICAL DAMAGE: More than 185k homes damaged and 9k destroyed 1883 Krakatoa Volcano Eruption COST OF DAMAGE: unknown HUMAN COSTS: 36417 deaths PHYSICAL DAMAGE: only ⅓ of the island that the volcano laid on was left 2005 Hurricane Katrina COST OF DAMAGE: $170bil HUMAN COSTS: over 2k deaths PHYSICAL DAMAGE: Many areas destroyed 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami COST OF DAMAGE: from $9.9bil to $10.5bil HUMAN COSTS: over 280k deaths PHYSICAL DAMAGE: over 600 miles of the ocean was altered 2. Using your notes, decide which disaster was the most destructive from each bracket until you select the one natural disaster that you believe to be the most destructive. Fill out the bracket below.
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