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NEW ORLEANS / KATRINA

NEW ORLEWNAS FACTS Terri Ann

KATRINA STATISTICS Erika

HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS Logan

CLEAN UP IN NEW ORLEANS Brock

DISASTER PREVENTION IN NEW ORLEANS Chelsea

INFECTIOUS / DISEASES AND NATURAL DISASTERS Dylan

HAITI EARTHQUAKE GEOGRAPHICAL & DEMOGRAPHICAL FACTS Luke

EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATION FACTS Matt

On twelfth of January the largest earthquake was recorded in Haiti and it destroyed almost every part of the country. The quake had a magnitude of seven, and heavy shocks were recorded after it. The natives of the country told how everybody was scared during this Haiti earthquake disaster. Communication facilities were stopped by this earthquake, so complete information has been bounded. First news report told that 1000s of buildings destroyed, resulting undiscovered numbers of citizens entrapped, and tens of 1000s of citizens became homeless on the roads. The people are helpless they have nothing to eat and wear. More than 200,000 bodies were collected on the streets without counting those that are still under the rubble. President Rene Preval stated "We might reach 300,000 people." The time placed around Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 04:53:10 PM. Haiti was shaken for about two days afterwards with aftershocks. The Haiti Earthquake took down hospitals and communications. Air, land and sea transportation was shut down. The hospital collapsing was not a good sign for all of Haiti. This now meant they had more of a walk to help and less help for them.

HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS Zach

HAITI CLEAN UP Dairea

RECENT EARTHQUAKE DISASTERS WORLDWIDE

In Southern Californa, early in March an earthquake swarm began near Bombay Beach, near the southern end of the San Andreas. with in the first week of the swarm, over 350 earthquakes were recorded. In China the country has set up more than 2,200 fixed earthquake monitoring and observation stations and more than 5,000 mobile ones to aquire punctual monitoring information. n Haiti an estimate of the number killed earthquakes range from 100,000 to 200,000. This is how events unfolded after the earthquake mag 7.0- struck at 1653 local time. Haiti had seismic energy yeild of 32 megatones, while this 8.8 earthquake measured more more than 5.6 gigatones. they still are waiting on information about chili, but a tsnami warning issued. The 9.5 magnitude earthquake struk chikli and killed 1,655 people.

SWINE FLU HISTORY & OVERVIEW Leeanna

CAUSE & TRANSMISSION Erica C

SWINE FLU - DANGEROUS OR NOT Scotty ​