Germany's Natural Disaster History?

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*MG*

Uhm. Should we also put out a nice little Powerpoint Presentation for you, write your notes and provide you with pictures....tape your speech for you? What happened to Google since I last visited that page? Type in "natural disasters" and "Germany" and there you go.

I don't mean to be rude, but what exactly is YOUR contribution to your own homework going to be? If you cannot use Google (and I mean that in a nice way), you have to learn how to get results quickly and effectively as soon as possible.

This is not going to be the only research homework that you are going to have to do during your time at school, things like these come up over and over again and you cannot always rely on others to do your work for you.

To make it easy for a start:

*earthquakes: do not occur in Germany
*floods: see other answerers (great details!!)
*hurricanes: do not occur in Germany.
*volcanoes: do not exist in Germany.
*tsunamis: do not occur in Germany (Google for a definition of "tsunami", please).
*mud slides: happen rarely and so far never caused much trouble.
*wild fires: happen very rarely and so far never caused much trouble.

Sorry. We're in the heart of Europe and thus comparatively "safe".

Alwin E

You forgot meteorite impacts. One of the most fertile (and populated) areas in Germany is the "NÃ¶rdlinger Ries" (ask the wikipedia), which was created by an impact of an orbital object of quite an immense size, like the Arizona crater (ask the Wikipedia, too, for that).

Avalanches, floods, and landslides happen each year, but on a scale that's neglectable. And no matter what you read in the news, there are no hurricanes in Germany. Strong winds occurr, but there are NO, and I repeat: NO hurricanes here.

Astrid

There was a pretty big flood back in 2002 in Germany, affecting both the Danube and the Elbe. Another one, but lesser, hit in 2006. I haven't really heard of any additional natural disasters other than floods, affecting Germany.

celebrate_me_home_2000

I don't know about the whole history . . .

We have had a few floods the last few years. If is normal for some parts of Germany.

Because of a lot of cutting down of trees, there have been more mudslides and avanlanches. I guess that is the price for skiing.

We had a hurricane that pretty much blew down a few forests. The north gets hit the hardest when there are hurricanes off shore.

One year we had "watch" on wild fires because of too little rain.

You could do one whole spill on the NÃ¶rdlinger Ries. That alone is pretty interesting. There is a museum in NÃ¶rdlingen about the crater and the meteorite.

Lawport

Everything you need to know about weather, fllods, earthquakes... in Germany on this website:

http://www.naturgewalten.de/index.html

Includes pictures, list of tornados (very few), earthquakes (very few) and so on.

Hope you speak german?

Zoe Dot

That's ironic. Natural disasters? They didn't have to worry about that so much as the ones that were human-created and killed millions. Just start with two world wars and the Holocaust.

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