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Nemanja Marjanovic IV-5 Poljoprivredno-hemijska skola Obrenovac

Environmental Disasters by Nemanja

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Nemanja Marjanovic IV-5

Poljoprivredno-hemijska skola Obrenovac

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By the action of natural forces

Manifested as formation of earthquakes, fires, floods, droughts, avalanches, stormy weather ...

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Wave height of 14 meters

It passed the Hudson and East River in New York

The sharks were swimming through the streets in torrents of water

More than 200 people lost their lives

Caused damage of $ 65 billion

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The underground earthquake of 9 on the Richter scale .

March 2011 on the coast town of Sandy (Northeast Japan)

Consequence of the earthquake – it was followed by the explosion of three nuclear reactors at the plant "Fukushima Daiichi“

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125,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed in the explosion of the reactor

20,000 people lost their lives

The economic damage in Japan amounted to 235 billion dollars

The most expensive natural disaster in history

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Chernobyl is now a ghost town

April 26 1986 - an explosion at the nuclear power plant

Cause of the accident: unsafe reactor and insufficient expertise of the people.

Evacuated residents did not return to their homes

Death toll: a few hundred people, while it is estimated that over a million lost their lives due to damage to health.

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Increased radioactivity has been felt not only in Europe but also in Japan and North America.

Twenty years later, Chernobyl is a popular tourist destination.

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Centralia is an old mining town

Today it is a ghost town, with deadly carbon monoxide fumes from a country that burns forever

1962 - A fire broke out in the coal mines beneath the city

A fire burns today, and some experts predict that it could take another 250 years

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Zip code of the city has been discontinued

Today there is no life in the city

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Cyclone "Tamara" engulfed the area of Central and Southeast Europe 13 May

Center cyclonic field was over Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where between 13 and 15 May secreted large amounts of rainfall

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Obrenovac was hardest hit by floods

90% of villages submerged.

The entire village of about 8700 inhabitants wasevacuated.

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