Terminology
What are Natural Disasters?
This city was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the year 79 AD.
What is Pompeii?
Shaking of the ground.
Andorra is part of this plate.
What is the Eurasian Plate?
This is a natural event / process / system that could potentially cause significant damages of threat to human settlements.
What are Natural Hazards?
These volcanoes haven't erupted in the past 10,000 years and are not expected to erupt.
What are extinct volcanoes?
a series of waves caused by an earthquake, underwater volcanic eruptions, landslides or other abrupt disturbance
What are tsunamis?
This plate ONLY borders the North American and Pacific Plate.
What is the Juan de Fuca plate?
A semi layer of magma.
This class of volcanoes are expected to erupt in 100-1000 years.
What are dormant volcanoes?
A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
What are tornadoes?
This plate is on the left of the Carribbean Plate.
What is the Cocos Plate?
Two tectonic plates both move away
What is constructive?
The volcano that destroyed that one city in 79 AD.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
When winds blow into areas of the ocean where the water is warm.
What are typhoons?
This plate is named after a non-island country
What is the Indian Plate?
The natural event that happened but did not cause/pose threat to human settlements
What are natural phenomenons?
A mixture of water and rock fragments that flows down the slopes of a volcano and typically enters a river valley.
What is lahar?
Occurred as a region of low pressure in the western Pacific Ocean's Federated States of Micronesia on November 2nd, 2013.
What is Typhoon Haiyan?
A three-dimensional surface or zone across which there is a significant change in the velocity (speed or direction) of motion of one lithospheric plate relative to the adjacent lithospheric plate.
What are plate boundaries?