Question Answer Website 1 Website 2 Website 3 What is the name of the disaster? Hindenburg Wikipedia.org History.com Airships.net Leading information up to the disaster Departed from Germany on May 3, 1937. It was hours behind schedule on May 6, and there was supposed to be bad weather. After the storms passed, it was landed a day and a half late, with the public not allowed on board until the next flight. Airships.net Wikipedia.org Americanhistory.about.com Why is this disaster famous? It was the first disaster on film… Millions of people saw it happen Airships.net History.com Usatoday.com What is the summary/description of what happened at the disaster? (tell the story) After the flight in the second question, they were releasing ballasts, …show more content…
Wikipedia.org Google.com Bestplaces.net Was the disaster a natural or man-made (or combination of both) disaster and why. Manmade because it was a man-made zeppelin that crashed because of a pilots sharp turn. Airships.net Wikipedia.org History.com How many people were affected by the disaster? (died, had to move, were affected by, etc.) 35 were killed, but 62 of the 97 passengers escaped. Airships.net History.com Wikipedia.org What was the outcome of the disaster? The beginning of the end of airship travel. History.com Wikipedia.org Airships.net How were people affected? 35 people were killed and all the living refused to use zeppelins anymore. They were too scared. Businessinsider.com Wikipedia.org Todayifoundout.com What are some theories as to why the disaster happened? That a sharp turn caused a gas leak, static electricity, etc. Businessinsider.com Wikipedia.org Airships.net What did we learn or do differently after the disaster? To not use airships, apparently. Wikipedia.org Airships.net History.com What happened to the area that was affected by the disaster? It was on fire and dirty, covered in ashes. History.com Wikipedia.org …show more content…
No, it quickly caught fire and burned in less than a minute. Wikipedia.org Airships.net Investopedia.com Additional Information Goebbels wanted to name the Hindenburg for Adolf Hitler. History.com Wikipedia.org
The Hindenburg disaster happened in 1937. The cause of the disaster was an electrostatic discharge which lead to igniting the hydrogen that was leaking. The ship before it crush had a major problems with hydrogen leaking. So until today the investigation show that the spark happened because of the difference of electric charge of the airship and the atmosphere which 60 meters about sea level to ignite fire in the ship. The ship didn’t last long in the air because it was filled with flammable gas.
The damages were catastrophic as houses lay in ruin and debris littered the roads. There were mudslides and fallen rocks that paved the roads and made them impassible for vehicles to get through. Ultimately by the roads being clogged up the response time by rescue workers and essential personal were hampered. This also made it exceptionally difficult for supplies to be rushed to the locations for the earthquake survivors. As some were digging and excavating for survivors they were being halted by aftershocks and falling debris from above. Approximately 8000 people were killed either by their houses caving in or by the other disasters this earthquake triggered. It was a real life tragedy that
About 4000 people were killed over 9000 that were injured that was this famous event you might ask? It was the loma prieta earthquake, also known as the world series earthquake. Taking place in san francisco 1898 this was one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the bay area. This earthquake caused an estimate of 5.6 billion dollars for the total damage it had done .The person the was interviewed for this event was Mr.Demichel.he was about 10 when he felt the earthquake.
There are many reasons why this disaster caused so much damage. Transportation was damaged, roadways were filled with snow. People had to dig their cars out from underneath
|communities. Over 125 people perished almost immediately, mostly women and children. There were over 4000 survivors but their 1000 |
There were 16 planes that took off from the boat. They all left in one hour. They arrived in Japan at twelve and started bombing immediately. They encountered problems such as low fuel and bad weather.On there way to china where they had supporters waiting for them to land. One of them ran super low on fuel and had to land in Russia.
Obviously, many citizens were affected by this storm. Forty-two thousand, three hundred and ninety-nine people are in shelters. Two hundred thousand people without power and 1.3 million people in Houston without health insurance. The Red Cross, however, has given 190,000 meals and over 1,960,000 liters of water.
In conclusion that’s why I believe that zeppelins will never be added to the 21st century.
Did any people disappear? If so how many? What precautions are they using to avoid another
On this day 79 years ago the Hindenburg crashed. You may not know it but the Hindenburg was the first disaster caught on film. Some believe that the Hindenburg exploded by a helium leak. The Hindenburg had over 61 passengers on the zeppelin. The Hindenburg exploded on May 6th, 1937 when trying Lakehurst Naval Air Station. The Naval Air Station was in New Jersey.
Millions were made homeless by the huge waves that swept houses and cars away. It was estimated that the costs to repair all damage would be at approximately $5 billion.
On May seventh, the time of 1915 as the ship the "Lusitania" was approaching the shoreline of Ireland. Amid its voyage, a torpedo was let go by the German submarine "U 20" that pummeled into the ship's side. A strange second blast had tore the liner separated. A catastrophe had ruled, the ship recorded so terribly and quickly that the rafts had collided with the travelers on deck, or had their heaps dumped into the water. Inside only 18 minutes the ship had slipped into the ocean. Precisely 1,119 of the 1,924 travelers on board had confronted their passing. Of the dead included 114 Americans.
The Uptick Rule is a former law established by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) that requires every short sale transaction to be entered at a higher price than the previous trade. This rule was introduced in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as Rule 10a-1 and implemented in 1938. It prevents short sellers from adding to the downward momentum of an asset already experiencing sharp declines. The uptick rule was also known as the "plus tick rule".
All seven crew members died. The accident investigation board figured out that, during the launch of the shuttle, a piece of insulating foam had torn from the external tank and struck the orbiter’s left wing, weakening its thermal protection ability. When the orbiter later reentered the atmosphere, it was unable to withstand the superheated air, which penetrated the wing and destroyed it, leading to the vehicle’s breakup. These two horrible accidents were part of the reason that NASA canceled the Space Shuttle program.
Lasting less than a minute, the immediate impact of the earthquake was disastrous. The earthquake also lead to several fires around the city that burned for three days and destroyed nearly 500 city blocks (archives.gov).The earthquake and fires killed an estimated 3,000