Natural disasters

The most important natural

disasters in the last 2 years.

• Chile

• “The new island near El Hierro”

• Japan

• The worst snowfall of the East Coast

of the United States of America

• 2010

• Earthquakes between

8.8 and 6 degrees.

• 525 deaths and 23

dmissing people.

Chile

Chile 1 year later

• 2011

• A tsunami provoked 156

deaths and 25 missing

people.

“The new island near El Hierro”

• It’s an undersea fissure which ejected

magma.

• Death of most of the island underwater

species.

• There’s an ash cloud bigger than the

island of “El Hierro”.

• There isn’t enough magma for create

one new island.

Japan

• On March, 2011 an earthquake hit

the northeast region of Japan.

• After the earthquake, a tsunami

appear.

• They both caused a massive

devastation, including nuclear

problems.

• About 6000 people died and there

are a lot of missing people.

• Flights have been cancelled,

schools closed,… because of the

worst storm in 30 years in the

Norwest Coast of the USA.

• People couldn’t go away from

homes and they hadn’t electricity

for some days.

The worst snowfall of the

Norwest Coast of the USA.