Earthquakes, Severe Thunderstorms, Tropical Cyclones & Hurricanes…
These are the things we learn about in Natural Hazards, GEOG 240! Right after the earthquake I got a couple of emails from students who took my class… mostly they said that they knew WHAT to do (take cover under a piece of furniture) – but that they didn’t necessarily DO that! Another former student sent the following images:
Thanks to Ian Pope, Purdue Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science
Thanks to Ian Pope, Purdue Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science
Impacts and responses by the City of Fredericksburg can be seen in the Free Lance-Star
On Thursday we had a severe thunderstorm, resulting in power outages on campus and around town, and upsetting the Honor Convocation, that blew down trees and tree limbs, lamp posts, and peeled the roof off the Virginia Deli downtown (see the Free Lance-Star’s blog on this storm here). The UMW weather station (on top of GW Hall) recorded a top windspeed of 57 mph at 4.39 pm (check out the weather archive here!)
And Hurricane Irene rolled up the coast east of here on Saturday – we had a rainy, windy day, but with no major damage. The UMW weather station recorded 3.88 inches of rain though!
If you’d like to tell about your experiences, in Fred or elsewhere, feel free to comment here!!
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[...] – and our 100-year-old building came though the earthquake (8/23/11) with no problems! On the GEOG 240 Natural Hazards blog page I’ve posted seismograph/seismogram images and some news abo…. Now we’re waiting for the swarm of locusts – or is that the return of ALL students to [...]
[...] – and our 100-year-old building came though the earthquake (8/23/11) with no problems! On the GEOG 240 Natural Hazards blog page I’ve posted seismograph/seismogram images and some news abo…. Now we’re waiting for the swarm of locusts – or is that the return of ALL students to [...]