MINDFREAK

MINDFREAK

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

weather out today

To days wether is moist, cold, partly cloudy, north west wind with stratus clouds and a few stratocumulus.
chance of rain this after noon because the wind is coming from the sea.

Monday, May 2, 2011

2.2

1. the movement of mass rock.
2. rain and earthquakes weaken the earth.
3. roads and houses on cliffs that weekend the earth around.
4. we measure earthquakes with a Richter scale.
5. intra- plate tension where movement occurs along cracks
6. every 15 months because that happen in very rural areas.
7. killing 13 people injuring more than 120. 3500 homes destroyed. 3000 other buildings damaged.
8. land slide is where the earth moved and shifts where an earthquake is the movment of plates that causes most land slides.
9. a tsunami is a big wall or wave of water that comes from the ocean. they are usually coursed by earthquakes or land slides.
10.earthquake, landslide, volcano.

deadly storms in the US

President Obama stopped briefly in Tuscaloosa on Friday, to see the destruction for himself.  
Whole neighborhoods were flattened, leaving piles of debris around the city and about one million people in the state without electricity. Rescue workers are still searching for survivors.

The president said he had never seen such devastation.


  • 250 deaths (minimum) 
  • 1000 inured (minimum)
  • 130 tornado's in just one night (minimum) 
  •  most deadly storm to hit the US if around 40 years \

Sunday, May 1, 2011

tsunamis

Social- local government-                                                                                                                              
 People dying- they would have to help the families with the loss.                                                            
House-people displacement- they would have to pay for the search, rescue and return of the people who are stranded                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Schools and places of interest destroyed- the local government would have to pay for the rebuilding of any destroyed or buildings that now dangerousness or unsafe. 

1.     The crops would get wiped out leaving people without work and food for a period of time.
2.     Animals get swept away. 
3.     Tree's get knocked due to the force of the wave. 
4.     Debris from houses end up in lakes, ocean and in drinking water supplies 
5.     Petrol and other hazardous liquids and gases get into the water killing animal and getting into the water supply
 

  1. Fishermen loose their jobs
  2. People loose houses so builders are employed
  3. Insurance Companys are having to spend lots of money
  4. As buildings are destroyed small buisnesses are destroyed becasuse they have no buildings and/or computers and/or funds
  5. People loosing homes and living on the street
  6. No buildings
  7. buildings destreyed
  8. Money bing lost