Geography
-Natural Disasters.
Graph -Natural Disasters.
Fire
2009
Victoria
173 people died, 414 people were injured
Cyclone Yasi
2011
Northern Queensland
A trail of destruction was left as cyclone Yasi left town
Earthquake
2005
Pakistan
Pakistan suffered a death toll of 75,000
Volcanic eruption
2010
NewZealand
Massive amount of damage caused, and a long clean up ahead
Land slide
2011
Japan
extraordinaire amount of damage, with lives lost
Fire
(Black Saturday)
The black Saturday bush fires were a series of fires
Ignited or burning across the Australian state of Victoria
on and around Sunday the 7th of February 2009. The fires occurred during extreme bush-fire conditions, and resulted in Australia's highest loss of life from a bush fire; 173 people died and 414 were injured as the result of the fires. As many as 400 individual bush fired were recorded on the 7th. The day was widely Known now as Black Saturday, reflecting the smoke and the ground left behind after the shocking effect of the fires.
Cyclone yasi
Queensland endured a night of terror as
Cyclone Yasi stuck, delivering 290km/h winds and
raging seas. The category five storm made landfall between
towns ville and Cairns but concentrated its fury on the 100k strip of coast around mission beach, between Cardwell and Innisfail, an area devastated by Cyclone Larry in 2006. The town of Mission beach was struck with ful force at midnight. it tore apart buildings, ripped out trees, and more than 90,000 sat in the nights darkness when the power source was cut.
Earthquake
The 2005 Kashmir earthquake was a major earthquake
centered in the Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan, near the city Muzaaffarabad, also affecting Gilgit-Baltistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It occurred at 8:52 Pakistan time on October 8th 2005. It registered at 7.6 making it similar in size to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Bibliography
http//:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Kashmir_earthquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfire
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