Natural Hazard Predictions

When rain exceeds the capacity of a drainage system.

Nowcasting provides Los Angles vital minutes to:

Instrument that measures the speed of the wind; or any current of gas

A long high wave caused by an earthquake, an underwater landslide, or other disturbance

A force resulting from processes occurring within the Earth's crust.

Instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.

Hurricane Katrina & Hurricane Rita are different in what way?

A boundary separating 2 masses of different air densities & causes events in the tropics

Volcanic eruptions are predicable, scientist monitor

A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds.

When hot lava and/or ash begins coming out of a volcano

A map that displays various meteorological features used to forecast the weather

Why can a hurricane cause so much destruction?

Events occurring due to natural processes.

The force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air.

The prediction of what the weather will be like in the near future.

Which US fault line is the most monitored?

An event in which rocks and/or mud slide down along a mountainside slope due to gravity

Europes largest volcano

Geologist who study earthquakes

When/where the ground swells as magma rises

An expert in or student of meteorology; a weather forecaster.

What conditions must be present for a hurricane to form?

Hurricane Katrina & Hurricane Rita are similar in what way?

Uses instruments buried deep underground to measure tremors as they move up fault lines

Cracks in the Earth's crust causes by shifting tectonic plates

Which of the following cities is most likely to experience a tornado with rating F3 or greater?

Area in the Pacific Ocean where a large number of volcanoes & earthquakes occur.

What is the best summary about hurricanes?

The data on the map would best support a prediction of which of the following events?