BLACK SATURDAY!

2. BLACK SATURDAY! WHERE: VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. DATE: 7TH FEB – 14TH MARCH 2009. AFFECTED AREAS: 450000 HECTARES, 1.1 MILLION ACRES. SORCE: POWER LINES,LIGHTING,MACHINERY,DELIBERATLY LIT. INJURIES: 414. DEATH: 173. HOW TO BE PREVENTED: USE THE VICTORIAN FIRE PLAN. As many as 400 individual fires were recorded and the Kings lake fires were the worst. The fires destroyed over 2,030, 3,500+ structures in total. The fire temperatures were in the mid 40’s and there was winds of 120 kilometres per hour.

3. Black Saturday is a disaster because its Australia's highest ever loss of life from a bushfire and it was the worse bushfire since Ash Wednesday in 1983. The majority of the fires ignited and spread on a day of some of the worst bushfire-weather conditions ever recorded. The fires destroyed over 2,030 houses, 3,500+ structures in total and damaged thousands more. The fires affected 78 individual townships in total and displaced an estimated 7,562 people. A week before the fires, an exceptional heat wave affected south-eastern Australia. From 28–30 January, Melbourne broke records by sweltering through three consecutive days above 43 °. 3582 fire fighting personnel were deployed across the state on the morning of 7 February in anticipation of the extreme conditions. Map of affected areas and number of casualties in each area.

5. PAKISTAN FLOODS! WHERE: PAKISTAN (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and GilgitBaltistan) DATE: STARTED ON 26 JULY 2010. AFFECTED AREAS: 1.4 MILLION ACRES OF AGRICUTURAL LAND, 50,000 HOMELESS. SORCE: HEAVY MONSOON RAINS. INJURIES: MORE THEN 21 MILLION DEATH: OVER 2000 HOW TO BE PREVENTED: IF THERE IS FLOOD OR HEAVY RAIN WARNINGS TRY TO GET EVERYBODY OUT OF THE TOWN. The massive floods in Pakistan have affected 13.8 million people and have eclipsed the scale of the devastating 2004 tsuami. The floods is the worse floods within 80 years.

6. About 1600 people have died in the Pakistan floods, millions of people have suffered and there is still more rain and further loss feared. The United nations estimate that up to 50000 people are homeless and 1.4 million acres of agricultural land was destroyed. Up to 200000 people have been evacuated as floods waters continue to rise. Health workers say they are still struggling to reach many thousands of people/survivors who are now at risk of disease. World health organisation is concerned by the risk for the hundreds of thousands of people including water-bone diseases, diarrhoeal diseases and respiratory infections. ‘These losses are enormous and I think especially if we look at the communication infrastructure including the power infrastructure that has been the worse hit.’ says Pakistan's Natural Disasters Management Authority chairman's. The Pakistan Floods began in July 2010 after heavy monsoon rains. Affected areas as of August 26, 2010

8. CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE! WHERE: SOUTH OF GUADALUPE VICTORIA, BAJA CALIFORNIA (The strongest shaking was felt in the ejido of Alberto Oviedo Mota) DATE: APRIL 4TH 2010 COUNTRIES AFFECTED: MEXICO AND UNITED STATES DURATION: 89 SECONDS. MOMENT MAGNITUIDE SCALE: 7.2 INJURIES:100 DEATH: 4 HOW TO BE PREVENTED: IF THERE IS WARNING OR AN AREA WHERE EATHQUAKES HAVE BEEN BEFORE MAKE SURE EVERYONES KNOW WHAT TO DO, AND ALSO MAKE BULIDINGS STRONGER.