Atmospheric Hazards
rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, or tropical storm, or by meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields
Flash Flood
the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere from the movement of tectonic plates that creates seismic waves.
Earthquake
A virus that shut down the world and very much changed how we go about our everyday lives.
Covid-19
A natural gas that we create everyday just by breathing
Responsible for 50% of all Nova Scotias power this fuel is burned and releases a high amount of emissions into the atmosphere. It is most abundant in Cape Breton.
Coal
A prolonged dry period in the natural climate cycle that can occur anywhere in the world. It is a slow-onset disaster characterized by the lack of precipitation, resulting in a water shortage.
Drought
A series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake
Tsunami
A disease most famous for being spread by mosquitoes
Malaria
These are human caused or created gasses
Anthropogenic Gases
Halifax wildfires
A rotating, organized system of clouds and thunderstorms that originates over tropical or subtropical waters and has a closed low-level circulation.
Tropical Cyclone
This Country lies on top of the North American Plate, the Philippine plate, and the Eurasian plate. It has the most seismic activity of anywhere in the world.
Japan
Founded in 1948, this organization is an agency of the United Nations dedicated to ensuring the highest possible level of health for all the world's people.
World Health Organization
Popular in the 80's this product was responsible for the largest production of CFCs and the damage done to our Ozone layers
Hairspray
similar to the pattern of events, but it is how hazards or disasters occur in time
Temporal Spacing
Largely caused by dry conditions this hazard can be caused by the striking of lighting on the ground
Wildfire
The expulsion of gases, rock fragments, and/or molten lava from within the Earth through a vent onto the Earth's surface or into the atmosphere
A Volcanic Eruption
A deadly disease that can spread rapidly and onset in less than 24 hours but can be cured with a simple concoction of sugar, salt and water. (Electrolytes)
Cholera
The gas with the shortest life span in our atmosphere but possess the greatest ability at trapping heat. This gas comes from waster, most notably cow poo.
Methane
One of the most famous and well known natural disasters in history, this disaster destroyed much of New Orleans, Louisiana
Hurricane Katrina
A phenomenon that occurs when two nearby cyclonic vortices move around each other and close the distance between the circulations of their corresponding low-pressure areas.
The Fujiwhara effect
This phenomenon is caused by rainfall percolating, or seeping, through the soil absorbing carbon dioxide and reacting with decaying vegetation, creating a slightly acidic water. That water moves through spaces and cracks underground, slowly dissolving limestone and creating a network of cavities and voids
Sinkhole
About 80% of all disease in LDCs are related to the lack of this resource
Clean Drinking Water
Extremely toxic to humans in large concentrations this natural gas is a by product methane and can cause events such as acid rain
Nitrogen Dioxide
Glace Bay was once a booming and wealthy town, now thanks to a century of mining industry the town is slowly becoming of high risk for this kind of natural disaster.
Sinkholes