reflections on Blogging

I felt pretty good about blogging. It was fun too. There was only one thing I didn't like, it was due dates because it took pretty a while to gather information, videos and pictures. I learned a lot of things when I was gathering information about tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes. I never knew about the biggest Earthquake or how many people died in the eruption of Mt Tambora. My favourite post would be the Mount Tambora because that was the post that i tried my best and it was very interesting. Cool thing about blogging is that everybody can see my post and also I thought it was cool to move a video to my blog. If I could continue blogging, I would definitely continue blogging because it's very fun to blog.

I think there is a improvement of my post compared to the first post and my latest post. I first didn't know how I should set my blog up or where to gather information, but now I'm used to it so it takes less time and it is better.

Mt Tambora Indonesia

April 10 1815, a volcano erupted in Mount Tambora. The largest eruption since the eruption in Lake Taupo. The explosion was so loud that it was heard on Sumatra island (2000km away). You will not believe this, but the guess of total death was 71 000 people. The climate got cold in North America and Europe, so it was called 'A Year Without Summer'. Crops failed in the Northern Hemisphere, resulting the worst famine in the 1900 century. Small eruptions kepting exploding and it stoped on July.

1819, April 10th with a height of 4m around 10PM a tsunami struck. It only caused few damages and luckily no died.

2004 a team from Rhode Island University came to investigate the eruption in Mount Tambora. They found out that the real estimate of total death was 117,000.


Mount Tambora
Mount Tambora is an active volcano( a volcano covered in many layer of ash). It is in the Sumbawa Island. Indonesia
4300m Tall

The great San Francisco Earthquake

5:18 AM, April 18, 1906 in Sanfrancisco there was a huge Earthquake that lasted only a minute. It sounds like a very weak earthquake because it only lasted a minute but it a disaster. It ripped thousands of houses, a hundreds of buildings. It cracked up to 435 kilometers and 6.4 meters deep. It made more than quater of a million people homeless. It killed 2500 death in total, and it was not pretty. By the time it happened, it was like mordern days. There were cars, buildings, houses, telegragh lines. Also scientist believe that this earthquake was more dangerous because of all the broken glass, electric wires which could definately kill someone. After the Earthquake, the American Red Cross Army and volunteers provided tents for the homelesses. Between september 1906 and march 1907 when people were sure that the earthquake was over, the Army Corps engineers built 5610 cottages for each family who were homeless. Each cottages costed about 100 to 700 dollars to build and the families only had to pay 2 dollars a month to the government. Recently this earthquake was the biggest natural disaster in the American history.

The Biggest Tsunami

You might think that the world's biggest tsunami happened in Japan, but you are wrong. The Biggest tsunami happened in Alaska.

On July 9th, 1958, an earthquake hit Alaska Panhandle. The earthquake spreaded to northeastern shore of Lituya Bay. A mass of rock plunged down about 914 meters into the water. The impact generated a tsunami that crashed against the southwest shoreline of Gilbert Inlet. The wave hit with too much power that it went over the land that divided Gilbert Inlet and Lituya Bay. The wave continued along the Lituya Bay and then over La Chaussee and over Gulf of Alaska. The wave swept all the trees from elevations as high as 524 meters above sea level. Millions of trees were uprooted by the wave. That was the biggest tsunami.

Lituya Bay is a ice covered inlet on the northeast shore of Gulf of Alaska. It is about 11 kilometers long. 2 kilometers wide and it's 219 meters deep.

The biggest Earthquake since 1900

Since 1900, the biggest Earthquake was in Chili. It was in 1977 on May 22. The magnitude was 9.5 which injured 3000 people and 1655 people died. Five million people were homeless after the Earthquake. The horrible Earthquake damaged $100 million in the southside of Chili. That wasn't the end, the earthquake caused a huge tsunami to Hawaii, it caused 61 deaths, 75 million dollars of damage. Also it created another tsunami in Japan, there was 138 deaths and 50 million dollars of damge. That is about the world's biggest earthquake since 1900.

Another Earthquake

Did you know that there were two major earthquakes again. One was in Atakama, Chilli again this time with magnitude of 6.2, this earthquake was better than the earthquake before this one with magnitude of 8.8. The second one was in Mindoro, Philippines the magnitude was 6.0 on March 25th. With these earthquakes people are scared and suffering. What's next?