Disasters

Disasters

1. Titanic

   • An iceberg scraped the side of the RMS Titanic and it began to sink. The ship began to flood and it started to sink. There were not enough life boats on board to carry most of the passengers and no other boats could make it to the Titanic in time so there was an extremely large amount of casualties.
   • This is considered a disaster due to the very large amount of casualties caused by the Titanic's sinking.

2. Tsunami Indonesia

   • In Indonesia during the christmas season a massive earthquake above magnitude 9.0 caused a tsunami to spawn that caused destruction along the coasts of many areas. Also many areas were flooded and destroyed along with many lives lost.
   • This was a disaster because entire cities were flooded or destroyed. Also there were many casualties.

3. Hurricane Katrina

   • This was a disaster because entire cities were destroyed and flooded. Also there were many casualties due to lack of food, water, flooding, and contaminated water.
   • A tropical storm grew into a powerful hurricane that slammed into florida and other places. Also entire cities were flooded and destroyed and many lives were lost.

4. Nuclear War

   • This is a disaster because the entire human race has been wiped out. Also the places that weren't destroyed are still radioactive which is bad for the environment.
   • A nuclear war started in the distant future and it wiped out the entire human race. The only things that were left were some of the technology we built, and some wildlife and pets.