Warm Up: Quickwrite 1. What do you think catastrophic means? 2. Can you think of any examples of catastrophic events?

Round Robin Task: come up with a list of catastrophic events with your group 1.Each person adds 1 example to the list and passes the paper until your group cannot think of any more. 2.You may pass if you are stuck. 3.Use the time in between to brainstorm more ideas on your own paper.

Catastrophic Events It is any natural or manmade event which results in extraordinary levels of deaths, damage, or disruption severely affecting the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale and/or government functions.

Average number of tornadoes per year ( ): 1253 State with highest number of tornadoes per year ( ): Texas (avg. 155) Top 5 states with highest incidence of tornadoes (average per year, 1950–2004): Texas (155), Kansas (96), Florida (66), Oklahoma (62), Nebraska (57) Source: Storm Prediction Center at the National Weather ServiceStorm Prediction Center Tornado

Most tornadoes in one month: 875 (April 2011) Most tornado deaths in one year: 553 (2011) Fewest tornado deaths in one year: 15 (1986) Source: Storm Prediction Center at the National Weather ServiceStorm Prediction Center

Gorzycki Middle School has a tornado plan. Teachers have been trained what to do in case of a tornado. Follow the teacher’s instructions!!!

Tornado

Tornado

Average Number of Tornadoes per Year

Flood Deaths Death from Flash Floods Top 5 States (1959 to 2005): Texas (407), South Dakota (240)*, Colorado (178), Pennsylvania (137), Missouri (124) 81 deaths on average per year due to floods in the US (63% in cars) 450+ people died in floods in 1972, *in part due to a dam failure in Rapid City, South Dakota that killed 238 people, the worst year on record.

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Hurricane

Hurricane

Hurricane Tracks from 1851 to 2012

Hurricane 10.1 named storms a season (June – November) 5.9 become hurricanes 284 Direct Hits by hurricanes on the US from 1851 – 2010 Deadliest Hurricane hit Galveston, TX in 1900 killing 8,000+ people.

Hurricane

Forest Fire

Forest Fire 70,000 + fires nationally each year 3 – 10 million acres of forest, grassland, brush burned every year (size of Connecticut - Maryland) 330+ deaths from 1990 – 2006, 34% of the deaths are from volunteer fire fighters (the highest percentage)

Volcano

200,000+ deaths in the past 200 years Mt. Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1815, 92,000 deaths related to the eruption, led to a “volcanic winter” and the “Year without Summer” in 1816 Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980 is the deadliest eruption in US History killing 57 people.

San Francisco Earthquake 1989

Earthquakes Based on observations from 1900 the World experiences – an 8+ magnitude earthquake once a year – 7 – 7.9 mag 15 times a year – 6 – 6.9 mag 130 times a year – 5 – 5.9 mag 1,300 times a year Texas has had 62 earthquakes in the past year The largest was a 4.3 mag in Nacogdoches, Texas earthquakes/eqarchives/yea r/eqstats.php