5 M4 - Natural Disasters in the Western Hemisphere

Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives

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After more than a century of peaceful dormancy, the volcano Nevado del Ruiz in Columbia, South America, erupted. Blistering clouds of searing volcanic gases and ash flash-melted huge amounts of snow, launching a towering wall of hot mud toward the village of Armero. People ran - but they couldn't outrun the onslaught, and 23,000 perished.

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Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives

1906 San Francisco Earthquake Film Collection (2006)

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This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916. Seventeen of the films depict San Francisco and its environs before the 1906 disaster. Seven films describe the great earthquake and fire.

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Middle
1906 San Francisco Earthquake Film Collection

Earthquakes

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General information about earthquakes and how they happen.

How Does a Hurricane Form?

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Weather Adventures on Nasa.gov

How Does a Hurricane Form?

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Weather Adventures on Nasa.gov

1906 San Francisco Earthquake

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A huge earthquake rocked the West Coast on April 18, 1906. Worst hit was the city of San Francisco, where buildings collapsed and fires raged for days. Thousands of people died, and many more were left homeless. The disaster was just one of a long series of earthquakes triggered by the San Andreas Fault. It taught scientists valuable lessons about preparing for earthquakes.

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