This document summarizes some of the major natural disasters from the last 2 years, including earthquakes in Chile that caused over 500 deaths, the formation of a new volcanic island near El Hierro in Spain, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan that killed over 6,000 people and caused a nuclear crisis, and one of the worst snowstorms on the US Northwest Coast in 30 years.

1. Natural disasters

2. The most important natural
disasters in the last 2 years.
• Chile
• “The new island near El Hierro”
• Japan
• The worst snowfall of the East Coast
of the United States of America

3. Chile
• 2010
• Earthquakes between
8.8 and 6 degrees.
• 525 deaths and 23
dmissing people.

5. Chile 1 year later
• 2011
• A tsunami provoked 156
deaths and 25 missing
people.

7. “The new island near El Hierro”
• It’s an undersea fissure which ejected
magma.
• Death of most of the island underwater
species.
• There’s an ash cloud bigger than the
island of “El Hierro”.
• There isn’t enough magma for create
one new island.

9. Japan
• On March, 2011 an earthquake hit
the northeast region of Japan.
• After the earthquake, a tsunami
appear.
• They both caused a massive
devastation, including nuclear
problems.
• About 6000 people died and there
are a lot of missing people.

11. The worst snowfall of the
Norwest Coast of the USA.
• Flights have been cancelled,
schools closed,… because of the
worst storm in 30 years in the
Norwest Coast of the USA.
• People couldn’t go away from
homes and they hadn’t electricity
for some days.