Natural disasters are sudden events that usually bring terrible results. People may lose their homes, money and even lives during the disasters. We have recently found that natural disasters sometimes happen. So we decided to find out some famous natural disasters around the world.
| Hurricanes(飓风) are very dangerous storms with strong winds. The worst Atlantic hurricane in history was the Great Hurricane from October 10th to16th in 1780. | |||
When a volcano(火山) happens, it throws hot liquid(液体) rock and gases into the air through the hole at the top. On August 26t,1883, Earth made the loudest sound from the island of Krakatoa. |
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| On November 1*,1755, an earthquake(地震) hit Lisbon, in Portugal. The ground moved for ten minutes. The earthquake broke most of the buildings in a city apart. | |||
On December 28th, 1908, a tsunami(海啸) hit Messina, in Italy. The huge wall of seawater was about ten meters high. How high do you think the seawater is in this picture? |
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