Natural Disasters Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 6

I hope to explain to you about tornadoes. Tornadoes are local storms of high-speed, rotating winds (Brown & Brown 219). They are strong windstorms that occur mostly in the central and southern U.S. during the spring and early summer. Tornadoes are formed when warmer, lighter air from the south gets trapped below heavier, colder air…

A massive earthquake hit San Francisco in the early hours of the morning. The earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale is one of the most deadly earthquakes in recorded American history and has left up to 3,000 people dead and close to 80 percent of San Francisco destroyed. The earthquake first struck around 8…

Between April 25’h and 28‘“ in 2011, the US saw 355 confirmed tornadoes spread across 21 states The outbreak resulted in 348 deaths, 238 of which were in the state of Alabama. On April 27‘” alone, the nation saw 211 tornadoes, 317 deaths, and over 2,000 injuries One of the most notable April 27m tornadoes…

Earthquakes are one of the most devastating natural disasters on the planet. They have killed countless amounts of people and are hard to tell when coming. In this essay I will being talking about the experiences and how it feels to be in an Earthquake. The most devastating earthquake on record happened in 2004. This…

The movie Twister takes place in 1996 in Oklahoma. According to noaa.gov, the movie is actually based on the work of scientists at the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory. The researchers from the NOAA created TOTO which stands for the TOtable Tornado Observatory. This was created to study tornados by trying to collect weather data from…

The temperature of the planet has consistently risen in recent years leading to several adverse long-term consequences. Scientists have termed this as the biggest threat to life in the future due to its intergenerational effects. Global warming has caused the deaths of hundreds of people through severe heat waves, flooding, wild fires, cyclones and hurricanes…