Welcome to my geog blog! Hope you would have a takeaway from here. Feel free to leave your comments on areas for me to improve on at the tagboard. Thanks! In this blog, I will be touching on the Natural Disasters of South America - Columbia. I will be researching on one significant volcanic eruption or earthquake that happened in Colunbia within the past 30 years.

A news blog on a natural disaster. Friday, February 26, 2010. An earthquake happened on the 6. The earthquake happened due to the movements below the Eurasian plate and the African plate. Initially an Italy scientist,. I think that the government could have evacuated the people more effectively. They should make the buildings more stable so that not so much damage would have been cause. The people should be alert of the events happening around t.

A News Blog on a Natural Disaster. Friday, February 26, 2010. The cities of Rudbar, Manjil, and Lushan and 700 villages were destroyed, and over three hundred villages were affected. 100,000 adobe houses sustained major damage or collapsed resulting in forty thousand fatalities, and sixty thousand injured. 500,000people were left homeless.

A news blog on a natural disaster. Saturday, February 27, 2010. Izmit, Turkey 1999 Earthquake. Tuesday, 17 August 1999. A massive earthquake struck northwest Turkey. It struck at the worst possible time, 3am local time, the early hours of the morning when most people are asleep in bed.

A NEWS BLOG OF NATURAL DISASTERS. Friday, February 26, 2010. The earthquake that struck Tanzania happened in tuesday, 17th of July 2007 at 5. The earthquake happened 80km North-West the city of Arusha in Tanzania. The earthquake happened due to normal transform fault of the African plate and had caused an earthquake swam. The earthquake had a magnitude of 6. The government did not take action as there was not a lot of damage caused by the earthquake.

6 Earthquake In Venezuela Rattles Nerves. Sunday, February 14, 2010. An earthquake struck at about 1. Survey,it was about 25 miles southwest of. Fairly close to the surface, at about. Happened recently was thought to be the main. Thrust faults that run through the Caribbean.

A News Blog on a Natural Disaster. Friday, February 26, 2010. On the 13th May 2008,Mt. Etna rumbled back to life again. Located in Sicily, Italy,the volcano started to erupt again. The massive eruption was measured up to 3.

A News Blog On Natural Disaster. Wednesday, February 24, 2010. On Wednesday August 15 2007. The cause of this disastrous earthquake was the upwards movement of the South American Plate and seaward over the Nazca Plat. Which are converging at a rate of 3. The earthquake that measured 8. On the moment magnitude scale took away. 519 lives, leaving 1366 people injured.

Friday, February 26, 2010. The Earthquake of September 7, 1999 in Athens, Greece. A powerful earthquake struck Athens, Greece on 7 September 1999, on a Tuesday. Not only was it the worst earthquake to hit Greece in nearly 20 years, this was also the strongest earthquake to hit Athens in nearly a century. The earthquake has caused much harm. 9 on the Richter scale, according to the Athens Seismological Institude. It was so strong that it was eve.