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DANGEROUS DISASTERS

DANGEROUS DISASTERS. Created by Tracy Glova , Daniela Nguyen, and Ly Truong. TOP 10 DEADLIEST EARTHQUAKES. Ten: The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 Nine: The Ashgabat Earthquake of 1924 Eight: The Hokkaido Earthquake of 1730 Seven: The Ardabil Earthquake of 1997

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DANGEROUS DISASTERS

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  1. DANGEROUS DISASTERS Created by Tracy Glova, Daniela Nguyen, and Ly Truong.

  2. TOP 10 DEADLIEST EARTHQUAKES • Ten: The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 • Nine: The Ashgabat Earthquake of 1924 • Eight: The Hokkaido Earthquake of 1730 • Seven: The Ardabil Earthquake of 1997 • Six: The DamghanEarthquake of 856 • Five: The Indian Ocean Earthquake of 2004 • Four: The Aleppo Earthquake of 1138 • Three: The Haiyuan Earthquake of 1920 • Two: The Tangshan Earthquake of 1976 • One: The Shaanzi Earthquake of 1556

  3. 10: THE GREAT KANTOEARTHQUAKE OF 1923 • Date: September 01, 1923 • Location: the Kanto plain of Honshu, Japan • Magnitude: 8.3 on the Richter scale • Duration: 4-10 minutes (11:58 AM) • Death toll: 142,000 people • Resulting damage: 381,000 houses were burned; 694,000 houses were damaged

  4. 9: THE ASHGABAT EARTHQUAKE OF 1948 • Date: October 06, 1948 • Location: Ashgabat, Turkmenistan • Magnitude: 7.3 on the Richet scale • Duration: Unknown (2:17 am) • Death toll: 100,000 people • Resulting damage: Brick building collapsed; concrete structure were heavily damaged; freight trails were detailed

  5. 8: THE HOKKAIDO EARTHQUAKE OF 1730 • Date: December 30, 1730 • Location: Hokkaido, Japan • Magnitude: 8.3 on the Richter scale • Duration: Unknown • Death toll: 137,000 people • Resulting damage: Landslides; power outages; road damage; a tsunami

  6. 7: THE ARDABIL EARTH-QUAKE OF 1997 • Date: February 28, 1997 • Location: Ardabil, Iran • Magnitude: 6.1 on the Richter scale • Duration: 15 seconds (4:37 PM) • Death toll: 150,000 people • Resulting damage: Road and electrical power line damage; all electrical communication was impossible; water could not be distributed; hospitals overflowed with patients

  7. 6: THE DAMGHAN EARTHQUAKE OF 856 • Date: December 22, 856 • Location: the Alborz mountain range (present-day Iran) • Magnitude: 8.0 on the Richter scale • Duration: Unknown • Death toll: 200,000 people • Resulting damage: The whole city, countryside, and mostly every near-by village within 200 miles of the epicenter were destroyed

  8. 5: THE INDIAN OCEAN EARTHQUAKE OF 2004 Date: December 26, 2004 Location: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Maldives, and the eastern coast of Africa Magnitude: 9.1 – 9.3 on the Richter scale Duration: 8-10 minutes Death toll: 200,000 people Resulting damage: Tsunamis

  9. 4: THE ALEPPO EARTHQUAKE OF 1138 • Date: October 11, 1138 • Location: Aleppo, Syria • Magnitude: 8.5 of the Richter scale • Duration:Unknown • Death toll: 230,000 • Resulting damage: 600 guards in a citadel were killed, which was always destroyed; buildings and homes collapsed

  10. 3: THE HAIYUAN EARTHQUAKE OF 1920 • Date: December 16, 1920 • Location: Haiyuan, China • Magnitude: 8.5 on the Richter scale • Duration: Unknown (12:06 PM) • Death toll: 235,502 people • Resulting damage: Collapsed houses, damaged rivers, landslides, severe cracks in the ground

  11. 2: THE TANGSHAN EARTHWUAKE OF 1976 • Date: July 28, 1976 • Location: Tangshan, China • Magnitude: 7.8 on the Richter scale • Duration: 23 seconds (3:42 PM) • Death toll: 779,000 people • Resulting damage: No access to water, food, or electricity

  12. 1: THE SHAANXI EARTHQUAKE OF 1556 • Date: January 23, 1556 • Location: a 520-mile-wide area in China • Magnitude: 8.0 on the Richter scale • Duration: Unknown • Death toll: 830,000 people • Resulting damage: Caves collapsed, mounts and rivers “changed places”; roads were destroyed

  13. TOP 10 DEADLIEST VOLCANO ERUPTIONS • Ten: The Mount Galunggung Eruption of 1882 • Nine: The Mount Kelut Eruption of 1919 • Eight: The Mount Vesuvius Eruption of 1631 • Seven: The Laki Volcanic System Eruption of 1783 • Six: The Mount Vesuvius Eruption of 79 AD • Five: The Mount Unzen Eruption of 1792 • Four: The Nevado del Ruiz Eruption of 1985 • Three: The Mount Krakatoa Eruption of 1883 • Two: The Mount Pelee Eruption of 1902 • One: The Mount Tambora Eruption of 1816

  14. 10: THE MOUNT GALUNGGUNGERUPTION OF 1882 • Date: October 1882 • Location: West Java, Indonesia • Death toll: 4,011 people • Resulting damage: Unknown

  15. 9: THE MOUNT KELUT ERUPTION OF 1919 • Date: May 19, 1919 • Location: East Java, Indonesia • Death toll: 5,110 people • Resulting damage: Mudslides

  16. 8: THE MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTION OF 1631 • Date: December 1631 • Location: Gulf of Naples, Italy • Death toll: 6,000 people • Resulting damage: Many surrounding towns were destroyed by lava flows and randomly ejected boiling water from the volcano

  17. 7: THE LAKI VOLCANIC SYSTEM OF ERUPTION OF 1783 • Date: June 08, 1783 • Location: southern Island • Death toll: 9,350 people • Resulting damage: Dusty volcanic haze that created massive food shortages (the main cause of death after the disaster)

  18. 6: THE MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTION OF 79 AD • Date: April 24, 79 AD • Location: Gulf of Naples, Italy • Death toll: 10,000 + people • Resulting damage: the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were completely covered in volcanic ash and destroyed; temperature reached up to 750 °F; victims were found with the tops of their heads missing because their brains had boiled and exploded

  19. 5: THE MOUNT UNZEN ERUPTION OF 1792 • Date: 1972 • Location: Kyushu, Japan • Death toll: 15,000-17,000 people • Resulting damage: an earthquake; a tsunami

  20. 4: THE NEVADO DEL RUIZ ERUPTION OF 1985 • Date: December 13, 1985 • Location: Caldas and Tolima, Colombia • Death toll: 23,000 people • Resulting damage: a mudslide that buried the city of Amero

  21. 3: THE MOUNT KRAKATOA ERUPTION OF 1883 • Date: August 27, 1883 • Location: The Sunda Strait of Indonesia • Death toll: 36,000 people • Resulting damage: 2/3 was destroyed; more than 6 cubic meters of debris went flying into the atmosphere

  22. 2: THE MOUNT PELEE ERUPTION OF 1902 • Date: May 08, 1902 • Location: Lesser Antilles (in the Carribean) • Death toll: 40,000 people • Resulting damage: city of St. Pierre was completely destroyed

  23. 1: THE MOUNT TAMBORA ERUPTION OF 1815 • Date: April 10, 1815 • Location: Sumbawa, Indonesia • Death toll: 92,000 people • Resulting damage:the year 1816 people known as the “year without summer” because volcanic ash in the atmosphere form the explosion lowered worldwide temperatures (it snowed in New England in June; 100,000 additional people died because of starvation due to crop failures in Northern Europe and North America

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