Disasters

2. Power plant failure that has left the land contaminated for 3,000 years
6. An area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice
7. A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system
10. Massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
11. Sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action
12. Volcanic eruption that occurred 79AD in Italy
14. A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance
15. Hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005

1. Volcanic eruption that occurred in Indonesia in 1883
3. Tropical storms in the Northern hemisphere
4. An overflow or accumulation of water on an area of land that is usually dry
5. Tropical storms in the Southern hemisphere
8. Town in PA with a coal seam fire that is still burning today
9. A violently rotating column of air touching the ground, usually attached to the base of a thunderstorm
13. A large, destructive fire that spreads quickly over woodland or brush