Hello, we are Raquel, Saray and Melanie.

We are students of 3Rd, in

this blog we will give you very important information, please read
carefully. We talk about environmental phenomena, causing disasters
and methods to prevent disasters.

Environmental phenomena:

Tsunamis
A tsunami is a series of huge waves that happen after an undersea
disturbance, such as an earthquake or volcano eruption. The waves
travel in all directions from the area of disturbance. The waves may
travel in the open sea as fast as 450 miles per hour. As the big waves
approach shallow waters along the coast they grow to a great height
and smash into the shore. They can cause a lot of destruction on the
shore. They are sometimes mistakenly called "tidal waves", but
tsunamis have nothing to do with the tides.

A notice:

A tsunami triggered by a strong quake in the South

Pacific has killed more than 100 people in several
islands.
At least 77 people were reported dead in Samoa, more than 25 in
American Samoa and at least six in Tonga.
Residents and tourists fled to higher ground as whole villages were
destroyed. Boats were swept inland and cars and people out to sea.
The 8.3-magnitude quake struck at 1748 GMT on Tuesday, generating
15ft (4.5m) waves in some areas of the islands.
A general tsunami warning was issued for the wider South Pacific
region but was cancelled a few hours later.

Earthquakes
Earthquakes are natural disasters of a generally unpredictable nature.
In spite of considerable efforts made towards improving the
understanding of these natural disasters and protecting built
environment from their effects, earthquakes still cause huge human
and economic losses; this is true both for highly industrialized and
lesser developed countries. Some other recent earthquakes caused
smaller economic losses. Most of the human and economic losses in
these earthquakes were due to the collapse of buildings and other
man-made structures.
A notice:

Earthquake of Haiti 2010

Haiti 2010 earthquake was recorded on 12 January 2010 with
epicenter 15 km from Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. According to the
United States geological, earthquake would have had a magnitude 7.0
degree and would have generated at a depth of 10 km. There has
also been a number of replicas, being the strongest of 5.9, 5.1 and
5.5 degrees. NOAA discarded the danger of tsunami in the area. This
earthquake was the strongest registered in the area from the
developments in 1770. The earthquake was perceptible in countries
close as Cuba, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, causing fear and
preventive evacuations.

Effects on the poorest country in Latin America have been

devastating. Bodies recovered to 25 January exceed 150,000,
calculating the number of deaths could reach the 200.00. Also would
have produced more than 250,000 wounded and a million people left
homeless. One of the most serious humanitarian disasters in history is
considered.

Methods to prevent disasters:

We know that we can do nothing to prevent natural disasters, but we
can ensure that the damage are minimal. So let’s give some
guidelines to follow when there are natural disasters:

- Building homes engineered to withstand all types of earthquakes.

- Having a kit with the essentials in each house of the areas most
likely natural disasters.

- Give talks on prevention.

http://www.fema.gov/kids/tsunami.htm
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/
http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/01724/effects_env.html
http://commons.bcit.ca/civil/students/earthquakes/unit2_01.htm