Monday, May 6, 2013

4/29/13 assignment

1. February 23,1999    Galtur Avalanche
      The avalanche in Austria claimed 31 lives. They took six months to piece together what caused the avalanche.It says that it was the nature that caused the avalanche. Everyone thought that the skiing resort of Galtur was considered to be a safe area. It says that small avalanche follows the same route. This was one of the largest avalanche over 40 years. It hit at a small town near the swiss border. Which the population during the ski season is 4,000.It was a 16-foot wall of snow that hit. It was a worse avalanche that hit.

2. September 11,2001    American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into Pentagon
        Flight 77 was the third flight that was hijacked. Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. The planes was hijacked by five Islamic terrorists less than 35 minutes into the flights. On one of the planes Hani Hanjour who was one of the hijackers was trained as a pilot he took control of the flight. At 9:37 a.m. Eastern Time the aircraft crashed into the western facade. All 64 people on the lane was killed. The k]hijacker was killed to. It also killed 125 people that was in the building. A lot of people witnessed the crash. When the plane hit the Pentagon it ignited a large fire. The part of the Pentagon that was damaged was rebuild in 2002.

3. September 11,2001  flights crashed into the world trade center
        Over 3000 people were killed. This is including 400 police officers and firefighters.At 9:59 a.m. the south tower of the world trade center collapses. At 10:07 a.m. flight 93 the passengers found out about the hijacking and took over the plane and landed it in a field. At 10:28 a.m. the world trade center north side collapses. It collapses 102 minutes after being hit by flight 11.

4. September 7,2004             Hurricane Ivan
      This hurricane had winds of 160mph. This was a category 5 storm. It was one of the strongest storms in the region. It killed at least 68 people.A lot of people was evacuated from there homes.

5. 2005                  Hurricane Katrina
The estimated damaged is 75 billion dollars.This was a bad storm that hit. This hurricane was a bad storm that hit .It was a terrible storm that hit there.

6. 2008                   Hurricane Ike
     This hurricane caused a lot of damaged. It hit in 2008. Hurricane Ike was a category 4.It had winds up to 145 mph.

7.February 27,2010           Earthquake hit chile
     A 8.8 magnitude earthquake hits Chile. It hit on February 27,2010 at 3:34 a.m.
8.2011      Japan's earthquake
      A massive earthquake hit Japan. It was 8.9 magnitude  and it was 6 miles below sea. It triggered a tsunamis of 10meters high above sea level.         
9. The tornode in 2013
it destroyed alot. It injured a lot of people.
10 the storms
    The toranodes that hit and injured alot of people. It injured alot of people.

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