Earthquakes and Volcanoes By: Bridghid Kelly, Elahni Martinez, Andral Scarlett

 Earthquake: An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. (Wikipedia)  Volcanoes: A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot magma, volcanic ash and gases to escape from below the surface. (Wikipedia)

 Occurrence: May 31, 1970  Magnitude: 7.9  Epicenter: 15 miles away from city, in Pacific.  Damage: Many of the people in this village; approximately 70,000 died and about 800,000 left homeless. The Huascaran mountain, destroyed whole villages.

 Occurrence: December 28, 1908  Magnitude: 7.5  Depth: 40 feet  Casualties: 80,000  Damage: Thousands were killed and dozens of towns destroyed. Many transported to the north, relocating and fleeing their country.

 Occurrence: October 8, 2005  Magnitude: 7.6  Casualties: 79,000  Damage: Other than killing thousands, the earthquake left even more people homeless. Also, all the damage done made it hard for crews to rescue the injured.

 Occurrence: August 30, 2008  Magnitude: 7.9  Casualties: 87,000  Damage: This earthquake destroyed millions of buildings. Among these many buildings were schools. Any child in a school that collapsed was crushed, an estimated total of 10,000 children.

 Occurrence: October, 1948  Magnitude: 7.3  Casualties: 1110,000  Damage: thousands of nurses and other medical personnel flooded from Moscow and other cities. Many people lost lives and homes and villages were perished.

 Occurrence: September 1, 1923  Magnitude: 7.9  Depth: 40 feet ( 12 m.)  Casualties: 143,000  Damage: 90% of the Yokohama’s buildings were reportedly damaged or ruined, two-fifths of Tokyo's population was destroyed.

 Occurrence: December 16, 1920  Magnitude:7.8  Casualties: 200,000  Damage: This earthquake sent rivers flowing of their usual courses, which, in turn, caused landslides in many different places.

 Occurrence: December 26, 2004  Magnitude: 9.2  Casualties: 227,898  Damage: The epicenter being in the Indian Ocean, the earthquake sent waves as high as fifty feet towards coasts.

 Occurrence: July 28, 1976  Magnitude: 7.8  Casualties: 700,000  Damage: In cities that only felt the tremor of that quake 85% of the buildings collapsed. Needless to say anybody who was in a building where the earthquake did take place were buried under the ruins of buildings.

 Occurrence: January 23, 1556  Magnitude: 8.0  Casualties: 830,000  Damage: From the massive strength, and landslides an area of about 500 miles was taken out.

 Occurrence of Eruption: August 24 AD 79  Casualties: 3,360  Duration: 19 hours  Damage: Destroyed the Roman cities; Herculaneum and Pompeii.

 Occurrence of Eruption: December 1631  Casualties: 3,500  Damage: this eruption took on almost 3,500 residents and their village settlements.

 Occurrence of Eruption: 1882  Casualties: 4,011  Damage: thousands of lives were lost. Many houses were damaged, and it brought the great horrors of acid rain the this country.

 Occurrence of Eruption: 1919  Casualties: 5,110  Damage: killed about 5,000 people. Lives have been lost and many items that were built by the people, for the people had been destroyed. Great mudslides also occurred.

 Occurrence of Eruption: June 8,1783  Casualties: 9,350  Damage: Ravaged the livestock, flooded the plains, pushed the populace to their doom by famine

 Occurrence of Eruption : 1792  Casualties: 14,300  Damage: this eruption triggered megatsunami which killed thousands of people.

 Occurrence of Eruption: October 1985  Casualties: 25,000  Volcanic Explosive Index: 3  Damage: a great mudslide occurred and ruined thousands of homes. Many families had been separated. Thousands lost lives.

 Occurrence of Eruption: April 25 - May 1902  Casualties: 30,000  Damage: a dark black cloud covered the whole entire city, also claiming many other vitcums due to its sheer heat.

 Occurrence of Eruption: August 1883  Casualties: 36,417  Damage: Destroyed the whole entire city of Merak. Two-thirds of their country had been wiped out.  Volcanic Explosive Index: 6

 Occurrence of Eruption: April 1815  Casualties: 92,000  Volcanic Explosive Index: 7  Damage: much destruction of the crops and their famine in the Northern Hemisphere,