Natural disasters

Module 2: Timeline Marisol Gomez

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  • Enigma Tornado Outbreak

    Enigma Tornado Outbreak
    1.From late morning on Feb. 19, 1884, until late the next evening, more than 60 tornadoes touched down in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, both Carolinas, Virginia, and Tennessee, as well as Illinois and Indiana.
    2.The strongest recorded tornadoes in this outbreak measured an F4 on the Fujita scale of tornado intensity intesedy.
    3. As if the tornadoes alone weren’t enough, the stricken states also experienced other serious weather phenomena, like thunderstorms, flash floods, strong winds

  • Charleston Earthquake

    Charleston Earthquake
    1. At 9:51 p.m., the rumbling began, and it was felt as far away as Boston, Chicago and Cuba.
    2. It damaged or destroyed many buildings in the old city of Charleston and killed 60 people.
    3. The earthquake was preceded by foreshocks felt in Summerville, South Carolina, on August 27 and 28 but, still, no one was prepared for the strength of the August 31 quake.

  • The Yellow RIver Flood

    The Yellow RIver Flood
    1. The Yellow River (Huang He) in China is prone to flooding, due to the broad expanse of largely flat land around it. 2.The 1887 Yellow River floods devastated the area, killing between 900,000-2,000,000 people. 3.Three thousand miles long, it begins high above sea level in the northern mountain province of Qinghai and ends at the Yellow Sea. 4.In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than 1000 times.

  • Schoolhouse Blizzard

    Schoolhouse Blizzard
    1.On January 12, 1888, one of the worst blizzards to strike the Great Plains hit the sparsely populated states of Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa, as well as the Dakota Territory.
    2.The mercury fell within twenty-four hours from 74 degrees F above zero to 28 degrees F below it in some places, and in Dakota went down to 40 degrees F below zero.
    3.The storm came to be known as the Schoolhouse Blizzard, the Schoolchildren's Blizzard.

  • Sea Island Hurricane

    Sea Island Hurricane
    1.On August 27, 1893 a major hurricane which came to be known as the Sea Islands Hurricane struck the United States near Savannah, Georgia.
    2.It was one of two deadly hurricanes during the 1893 Atlantic hurricane season.
    3.Over 1,000 people were killed (mostly by drowning); and 30,000 or more were left homeless as nearly every building along the barrier islands was damaged beyond repair.