Catastrophes

1. Natural disasters
are great changes
that can cause land
damages or affect
people’s lives and
other living things.

2. • Volcanic eruption
• Earthquake
• Cyclone or Hurricane
• Avalanche
• Flood
• Drought
• Forest fire or Bushfire
• Downfall

3. A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in the surface
or crust of the Earth or a planetary mass object,
which allows hot lava, volcanic ash and gases to
escape from the magma chamber below the surface.

4. Hawaiian Eruptions Strombolian Eruptions Surtseyan Eruptions
Plinian Eruptions Vulcanian Eruptions Lava Domes

5. Most of volcanoes are located on the
edge of tectonic plates and under water.

6. •Mount Vesuvius (Italy)
•Krakatoa (Indonesia)
•Mount St. Helens (USA)
•Mount Tambora (Indonesia)
•Mauna Loa (Hawaii)
•Eyjafjallajokull (Iceland)
•Mount Pelée (French Caribbean island)
•Thera (Greece)
•Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia)
•Mount Pinatubo (Philippines)