Natural disasters

By Jos Miguel Caballero Restrepo

TORNADOS
A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in

contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is also referred to as a twister or a cyclone,[12] although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider sense, to refer to any closed low pressure circulation.

EARTHQUAKE
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in

the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by vibration, shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. The vibrations may vary in magnitude. Earthquakes are caused mostly by slippage within geological faults, but also by other events such as volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests.

TSUNAMI
TSUNAMI is a series of water waves caused by the

displacement of a large volume of a body of water, generally an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions(including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.

HURRICANE
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly-rotating storm system

characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by names such as hurricane (/hrken/ or /hrkn/), typhoon /tafun/, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, and simply cyclone.[

WILDFIRES
A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible

vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area.[1][2] Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, vegetation fire, and veldfire may be used to describe the same phenomenon depending on the type of vegetation being burned, and the regional variant of English being used.