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Saturday, September 27, 2008

What are Hurricanes?

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Animated guide: Hurricanes

The site as shown above will help the readers to develop the rudimentary understanding of the natural disaster which is called Hurricane.

They will be able to understand the following terms.

Hurricane,

Typhoons

Cyclones.

Further, with the help of graphics, different dimensions of a hurricane can be understood.

The reader will also understand the scales used to measure the hurricane. It explains the Saffir-Simpson Scale. It also gives data of the category 1 to 5 of a hurricane.



The readers can also learn about Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis from the same site.

They can watch the lesson in flash play or as PDF files or HTML display as per the capabilities of the devices which they are using to access the internet. It is strongly recommended that they should prefer flash display which is more communicative.


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