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How do natural disasters affect our

world?
Natural disasters affect our world in many ways. Natural disasters can affect many people
because they can suddenly appear and hurt many people in different ways. Natural disasters can
cost millions of dollars to fix and repair the damage. Natural disasters affect many people by
destroying homes and lives. Some damage from natural
disasters may never be fixed again. Three types of natural
disasters are earthquakes, tsunami and bush fires.
Earthquakes
Earthquakes come from plates underground, the plates hit
together and thats whats forms an earthquake. So there
are many tectonic plates, and if they hit Scientists think
that more than 8,000 little earthquakes happen every day,
and more than a million earthquakes shake the ground
every year. The richer scale it what they use to measure and to find out the magnitude of an
earthquake. The Richter scale was developed by Charles. With earthquakes if a magnitude
of 3 hits it will be unlikely not feel it but if a magnitude of 6 hits it
could cause big damage and kill hundreds of people. Most likely if
earthquakes hit in the sea/ocean it will probably cause a tsunami.
There are three different types of earthquakes called the mid
ocean, subduction zones and along transform faults
In 2009 in Italy in the city of LAquila on the 6
th
of April, a hugh 6.9
magnitude earthquake come and destroyed heaps of building,
killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands of people. After
the earthquake all you could see was gravel and building destroyed.
Tsunami
Tsunamis are a series of big/hugh waves that come crashing into our land.
Most tsunamis occur in the ocean because of the weather around it, but
tsunamis can also be caused by earthquakes under the ocean. Tsunamis are
not often that big but can go hundreds of kilometres long. When tsunamis
hit shallow water (often near the land) they slow down but increase high.
In 2004, on the 26 of December a hugh 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit near
tideland. That caused a hugh tsunami killing more than 280,000 people, and
injuring more than 500,000 people. It trailed over 37h miles in around 75 minutes. It left
more than 1.7 million homeless and affecting 11 countries. I destroyed more than 141,000
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homes and over 600,000 thousand lost the
livelihood. The tsunami was about 20 meters high.
After the tsunami hit many big businesses become
very small businesses. More than 50 motels and
resorts were destroyed. The tsunami speed was.
Bushfire
Bushfire can happen unexpectedly. 26% of the time bushfires are caused by
lightning sticks. Bushfires usually occur during hotter months of the year.
Bushfires are also caused by droughts, people lighting them, people driving
over dry grass and there are many more ways. When bushfires can be at
their worst when they hit eucalyptus leaves because they have oil in the
leaves and oil can cause a bigger fire.
Black Saturday
In 2009, on the 7
th
of February. On that day there was a hugh bushfire in Victoria called
black Saturday. On this day it was shocking day to have a fire because it got up to 46
degrees. People thing there were about 400 fires there.
Escape while you can.
Conclusion
Natural disasters arent nice at all, they can destroy whole ares and thousands of people.
Some disasters you can be warned and some you cant. natural disasters can affect our
world in good and bad ways.