Australia Natural Disasters

It is impossible to determine how many bushfires there have been in Australia. Bushfires, in varying degrees of severity, occur almost daily in different localities during the warmer months, beginning around late August in parts of Queensland. They reach their peak during mid-summer, with perhaps hundreds occurring through Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia on a daily basis. Many of these are small spot-fires which are easily extinguished. Major flare-ups occur less often.

Well there was alot of damage caused on Black Saturday as in animals homes destroyed, lives of loved ones dead ,burnt trees which where homes for animals. Just imagine it lovely wild flowers and beautiful trees and green grass animals ect and then think about how it is now burnt dead animals nothing living. So there has been alot of things destroyed but not just stuff that we worry about other things aswell as in the homes of creatures that surround us.

Cyclones are called "cyclones" in Australia. They are the equivalent of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, and typhoons in the Western Pacific and China Sea.

(It is not a "willy-willy" as some will report.)

The Commonwealth Government is providing a comprehensive Recovery Assistance Package to support people who have been adversely affected.

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There are fire fighters, and aid like red cross, and other stuff like that as well.

Bushfires can have positive effects on the environment by recycling nutrients, promoting new growth, and opening up habitat for certain plant and animal species. Some ecosystems have evolved to depend on occasional fires for their regeneration and biodiversity. However, intense or frequent bushfires can also have negative impacts on ecosystems and wildlife.

well, it can be life threatening, it can harm u servely or kill u and its not only life threatening it can cause loss or damaged to homes and people will have to live somewhere else to they find or fix their home!

there is all sorts of ways that they start like power lines falling lighting striking trees even, sound scary but its true people can start fires and then the winds blow it causing it to spread do you know that fire travels faster down hill then it does up! from gal of new zealand

While predicting exactly when and where a fire will start cannot be done, a number of agencies monitor conditions for fire including temperature, humidity, fuel temperature and moisture, rainfall, and the amount of fuel in a given area. A high amount of fuel and high temperature for a sustained time with little or no rain is a sign that a wildfire could occur. Usually these factors are simplified into a numeric Fire Danger Index, which translates to four levels of danger: Low, Moderate, High, and Extreme.

yes it helps alot becaue the dry grass is like a fuel to the fire to start up and it colud make the fire sprard.

The fires have not completely stopped, but the worst of them are over. As of 12 March 2009, authorities in Victoria announced that the last of the worst bushfires which caused the most death and devastation were under control. However, there are many minor fires that, without significant rain, are expected to continue to burn until the Australian wimter, which begins in June. Conditions remain very dry, and lightning strikes have caused more fires, but these have been easily contained.

Well usually when you think about it, yes. For measuring Earth forces like Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, they all basically are measured by how strong they are and their speed. Each different type of force may have different terminology, but the basics are the same.

Cyclone Mahina in 1899 caused an estimated $13.5 million in damage, equivalent to over $300 million in today's currency. It was one of the deadliest cyclones in recorded history, claiming the lives of over 400 people.

One is not to build your house in an area where you can get easily burnt out when conditions get dangerous. the land may be beautiful and cheap but in the end the costs may be tragic.

Victoria and the southern Australia region had recently experienced one of their hottest summers on record, with a heatwave over parts of Victoria and South Australia. This was on top of a drought which had lasted a dozen years. This had dried up the vegetation, making it like tinder in a fireplace - easily ignited and easily spread. The bushfires took place in mountainous countryside, and fires move much more quickly uphiill.

Spot fires also occurred as strong, gusting winds - some hurricane-force - carried blazing embers beyond the fire fronts: these fires quickly fanned into larger fires.

"Recovery measures" refers to the aftermath of a natural or man-made disaster, when steps taken by citizens and the government to help people of the affected area to rebuild their lives and restore the property that has been lost. Recovery measures range from general clean-up to financial aid.

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An actual bushfire cannot be predicted, but bushfire conditions can certainly be predicted. Variables include basic idiocy of humankind, e.g. whether or not arsonists will start the fire; whether or not someone will fully put out a campfire; whether or not someone will throw a lit cigarette butt out of a car window. However, the weather plays an important part in bushfire conditions, and "bushfire danger" warnings vary from low to extreme (and now a new category - "catastrophic" - has been added to the levels).

Droughts can, and do, occur during any time of the year in Australia.