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Natural Disaster Survival is a game where players are tasked with the role of surviving a litany of natural disasters, including earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, fires, thunderstorms, sandstorms and floods. [62] [63] The winners are the players who survive to the end of the round. [64]
The costs of disasters vary considerably depending on a range of factors, such as the geographical location where they occur. When a large disaster occurs in a wealthy country, the financial damage may be large, but when a comparable disaster occurs in a poorer country, the actual financial damage may appear to be relatively small.
A violent F4 tornado struck Omaha, Nebraska, killed three people and was one of the costliest tornado disasters in US history. Another F4 tornado destroyed the town of Magnet, Nebraska. (19 significant, 2 violent, 1 killer) [118] 1975 Canton, Illinois, tornado
The 2010 China floods began in early May 2010. [8] [9] [10] Three hundred and ninety-two people died, and a further 232 people were reported missing as of June 30, 2010, [11] [12] including 57 people in a landslide in Guizhou.
An unusual violent nighttime EF4 tornado struck the eastern side of Havana, Cuba's capital city, killing 8 people and injuring 190 others, some critically.The large stovepipe tornado caused widespread major damage as it moved through densely populated areas of the city.
The Northridge Earthquake was the subject of the 1995 film Epicenter U., a first-hand account of healing from the natural disaster, directed by Alexis Krasilovsky. [71] [72] The Earthquake Haggadah (1995) was a video excerpt from Epicenter U. narrated by Wanda Coleman. Distributed in 3/4" and VHS by the Poetry Film Workshop circa 1998.
The 1626 Sparrow-Hawk wreck is displayed at the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Historic wrecks are attractive to maritime archaeologists because they preserve historical information: for example, studying the wreck of Mary Rose revealed information about seafaring, warfare, and life in the 16th century.
Hydraulic fracturing [a] is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other proppants suspended with the aid of thickening agents) into a wellbore to create cracks in the deep rock formations through which natural gas, petroleum ...