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10 Interesting Facts about the Japan Tsunami 2011

10 Interesting Facts about the Japan Tsunami 2011
Here are facts about the Japan Tsunami 2011 which will give you addition information about this disaster. Japan Tsunami 2011 was a tsunami at result of the magnitude 9.0 (Mw) located undersea megacrust earthquake. This disaster occurred in Friday 11 March 2011. With the epicenter of the earthquake abut 70 kilometres (43 mi) on the east of Oshika Peninsula. Here are facts about the Japan Tsunami 2011 which need you to know. Facts about the Japan Tsunami  Read More ... »

10 Interesting Facts about the Haiti Earthquake

10 Interesting Facts about the Haiti Earthquake
In this article we will talk facts about the Haiti Earthquake happened in 2010. This kind of earthquake was categorized as a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne (Ouest Department), approximately 25 kilometers west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. It happened in the afternoon at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. You can check the following list below to know  Read More ... »

10 Interesting Facts about the Great Fire of London

10 Interesting Facts about the Great Fire of London
These following facts about the Great Fire of London will provide you some information to read. The Great Fire of London happened from Sunday 2 September to Wednesday 5 September 1666. This was a great conflagration that destroyed the medieval London City. The Great Fire damaged huge numbers of houses, churches and buildings. Let’s check the details below to get more information about the Great Fire of London. Facts about the Great Fire of London  Read More ... »

10 Interesting Facts about The Dust Bowl

10 Interesting Facts about The Dust Bowl
Those are the following facts about The Dust Bowl which probably give you informations about this disaster. The Dust Bowl or also known as the Dirty Thirties, it was a period on some severe dust strorms which damage the agriculture and ecology in the US and Canidian in the 1930s. Then here are the following facts about The Dust Bowl which you need to know. Facts about The Dust Bowl 1 : The Caused In the 1930s, there were methods to prevent the wind  Read More ... »

10 Interesting Facts about The BP Oil Spill

10 Interesting Facts about The BP Oil Spill
One of this following facts about The BP Oil Spill might give you some informations about the oil spill. BP Oil Spill also well known as The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill began on 20 April 2010 in Gulf of Mexico on the BP operated Macondo Prospect. It claimed eleven lives. It be the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of petroleum industry. For further information, you might want to know the facts about The BP Oil Spill below. Facts about  Read More ... »

10 Interesting Facts about the Black Death

10 Interesting Facts about the Black Death
These following facts about the Black Death would probably give you much information about the disaster. The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346-53. Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death, analysis of DNA from victims in northern and southern Europe published in 2010  Read More ... »

10 Interesting Facts about Volcanic Eruptions

10 Interesting Facts about Volcanic Eruptions
These following facts about volcanic eruptions should be really interesting for you to read. During a volcanic eruption, lava, tephra (ash, lapilli, volcanic bombs and blocks) and various gases are expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure. Several types of volcanic eruptions have been distinguished by volcanologists. These are often named volcanoes where that type of behavior has been observed. Some volcanoes may exhibit only one characteristic type  Read More ... »

10 Interesting Facts about the Tsunami in Japan

10 Interesting Facts about the Tsunami in Japan
These following facts about the tsunami in Japan will provide you many information about what the tsunami is and when it will probably strike Japan. However, this article will only narrow the information about the 2011 Japan tsunami which was also called the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and was known as the greatest earthquake and tsunami ever hit Japan. To get to know more about the 2011 Japan Tsunami, here are other facts about it you may  Read More ... »