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    Mitchell M.

    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
    Mitchell M.
    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.

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