Natural Disasters: The Terror of the World   

To begin, a volcano is a mountain with an opening in the top or side that sometimes sends out rocks, ash, lava, in a sudden eruption (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). A volcano erupts when pressure builds inside the mountain. Magma, lava while it is inside the volcanoe, pushes through the weakened crust. When this built up pressure is released, Earth’s plates move causing a volcanic eruption. Also, dangerous flows of steaming lava can reach up to 2,000

A natural disaster is an event that causes great damage. Such as floods, hurricanes, or a loss of life. Speaking this there was a Wildfire in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In fact, there was a wild fire that occurred on June 23, 2012. Only four miles Southwest of Colorado Springs. Therefore, there were several locations that needed to be evacuated. Even though there was 18,247 acres burnt, the fire was 100 percent contained on July 10, 2012. All in all, 346 homes were burnt. Due to that fact, two families lost a loved one. Eventually the mystery of this wildfire, is still unknown.

Natural Disasters happen all around the world. They are not limited to one specific country or climate. There are many types of Natural Hazards/Disasters and the world has seen on many occasions just how devastating and powerful they can be. With each natural disaster it doesn’t only affect the planet and environment but the people. We lose lives, homes, animals, even everything sometimes. Earthquakes happens when the earth releases energy and the tectonic plates rub against each other and shift. Hurricanes , typhoons, occur when a really large storm swirls in circles. “You'll see the cloud of the storm turning in a spiral, touch down on the ground, and then reach toward the sky. When the storm reaches a wind speed of over 74 miles per hour, it gets classified as a hurricane, typhoon, or cyclone depending on where the storm is located.” This is how hurricanes and typhoon disasters occur. There is many other forms of coaster but these are

Environmental disasters disproportionately effect communities of color in the United States South. The politicalization of “natural” disaster has been documented by Ted Steinberg in Acts of God The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America. While the socially and economically disadvantaged are at a higher risk of being severely impacted by environmental disaster certain groups are also subject harsh political rhetoric based on a narrative crafted around the disaster. Prominent examples of this include the myth of wide spread, african-american looters which emerged after Hurricane Katrina. Peddled both by mainstream media outlets and especially reactionary politicians and cultural icons like Chris Kyle. This was not the first instance of racialized rhetoric emerging out of environmental disaster but actually fits into

Wildfires, they are one of the most catastrophic Natural disasters that happen throughout the year. In fact what most people don’t know is that 10% of the world's wildfires are created naturally by lightning onto the dry grass after a while of rainfall, volcanoes also have a play of natural wildfires cause the lava from the eruption spread and creates a fire to all of the grass.

Volcanic eruptions, in its simplest form, is when molten lava, gasses and ash are released and expelled out of the earth’s mantle from built up pressure. The liquid rock, or magma start to bubble and release gas which creates extreme pressure. A volcanic eruption occurs when the pressure pushes the magma and gasses to a crack or fissure in the surface of the mantle where it explodes out.

Many people wonder how many active volcanos there are. Around 50 to 70 volcanoes erupt each year. That isn’t even including the great number of underwater eruptions! Holocene (historically active) volcanoes have been likely to have erupted around 1,500 times.

Volcanoes exist all around the world.A volcano is a place where hot ash,gases,and molten rock deep underground erupt. Volcanoes can be dangerous for many reasons for example hot ash,lava,cinders,and mud. The magma chamber carries magma up into the pipe and out the crater or top vent. Volcanic eruptions can differ in their violence for example some volcanoes are fast moving lava or pahoehoe or slow moving lava aa. Some volcanoes erupt water vapor carbon dioxide and some volcanoes can erupt 60 ton bricks or cinders.

While natural disasters such as floods, drought and hurricanes are commonly thought to occur due to environmental forces such as weather, climate and tectonic movements; a deeper investigation into the ‘disaster’ displays other contributing forces. Human factors have a large, if not equal, contribution to the occurrance and outcome of such disasters (Pelling, 2001). As Pelling (2001) argues, there is both a physical and human dimension to ‘natural disasters’. The extent to which the natural occurrence of a physical process, such as a flood or earthquake, impacts on society is constructed by that society, creating a ‘disaster’ as measured by a

A volcano is a cone shaped mountain or cracks in the ground that shoot out lava, molten rock, ash and gases, from inside the earth. Volcano eruptions happen because two tectonic plates move away from each other leaving a gap (Ganeri). Scientists believe that magma from the mantle causes these plates to move (Netzley). Magma then rises to fill the gap as a thin fluid lava. It either explodes violently or just ejects out streams of lava (“Volcano”).

Natural disasters are anything from floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, or anything else nature could develop that causes massive amounts of damage, or cause a large losses of life. Such events are not anything caused because of human beings, but only by the actions of atmospheric conditions, or due to the changes of continental drifts that these disasters occur. Technology has come a long way since the early days before the industrial revolution where predictions can be made and warnings can be issued. This helps reduce the amount of possible loss of lives that would occur in 21st century. However, that is not what happened during Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 Hurricane.

    A Natural Disaster can happen any time and place it’s just the fact of knowing what Natural Disaster occurs in certain area. In “Earth Facts and Information” it says,” The Definition of natural disasters is any catastrophic event that caused by nature or the natural process of the earth”. With that being said Hurricanes, Flash Floods, Earthquakes, and Tornadoes are all considered as Natural Disasters. In “11 Facts about Disasters” it says, “In 2012 there were 905 natural catastrophes worldwide severe storms, droughts, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, and hailstorm”. Natural Disasters just don’t take an effect on the world it also takes effect on the people who have to live with the aftermath of a Natural Disaster.  “Between 2000 and 2012, natural

Natural disasters like hurricanes affect towns and cities all over the United States.In the last decade natural disasters have wreaked extensive property damage across the country. According to Michael B, Sauter, September, 2016; More than 35 million U.S. single-family homes and condos, the equivalent of $6.6 trillion in residential property, are at high risk of damage from natural disasters. Those homes account for 43% of the total single-family residential property in the United States. Some of these storms are enormous that form over water traveling mile to reach the mainland. The human should always be our first thoughts with these events. Unfortunately, there are other impacts on people’s lives, sometimes the loss of life. The deadliest hurricane in the history of the United States to make landfall was the Galveston Hurricane of the 1900 that killed 8000 people.

A volcano is said to be a rapture which occurs in the crust of the earth and it allows lava, dangerous gasses as well as volcanic ash to escape to the surface of the earth from the magma which is placed in areas below the earth. The volcanic activities on earth have a deep history which shows that they have been active for a long time. The volcanoes on earth usually occur when the crust on the surface of the earth is broken into tectonic plates. The tectonic plates usually float on the hotter and the softest layer in its own mantle. This shows that the volcanic activities on earth usually occur where the tectonic plates on earth are either converging or diverging. The erupted volcanoes can be very hazardous in various

Natural disaster is a sudden and terrific event in nature (such as a hurricane, tornado, flood, heat waves,typhoon) that usually results in serious damage and a huge amount of deaths.