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2.1
Natural Hazards: What Are They?
Disasters like Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 that affected the Caribbean and the
East coast of America or fl oods in the summer 2010 that inundated large parts of
Pakistan (see Figs. 2.1 , 2.2 , and 2.3 ) dominated the media headlines around the
Fig. 2.1 Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012, on 1:45 pm eastern daylight time (Photo from
NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon with data courtesy of the NASA/NOAA
GOES project science team)
Fig. 2.2 Parts of New Jersey's shoreline before and after Hurricane Sandy hit late October in
2012. Storm surges and winds created a new inlet between the Atlantic Ocean and the Jones Tide
Pond. Sandy was the worst storm hitting the northeastern United States since the Great New
England hurricane in 1938. Storm surges reached heights of up to 15+ feet in New Jersey (Munich
2013 ) (Photo from NOAA Remote Sensing Division)
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