GCSE Geography

Disasters

The 2015 Nepal Earthquake

Nepal began the day much as it always did. It was a Saturday, the weekly day off for many people,…

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Biographies

Mary Anning

Along the windswept cliffs of southern England, the sea constantly gnaws at ancient rock, revealing fragments of a world long…

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Disasters

The Vargas Tragedy

In December 1999, the part of Venezuela hit hardest by what became known as the Vargas Tragedy was a narrow…

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Disasters

The Vajont Dam Disaster

The Vajont Valley lies in northeastern Italy, near the border between the regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, carved deep…

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Disasters

The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

Before it became synonymous with catastrophe, Lac-Mégantic was a small, close-knit town in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada, with…

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Disasters

The Love Canal Disaster

The story of the Love Canal disaster begins decades before chemical contamination entered public awareness, rooted instead in a failed…

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The 1999 Paddington Rail Crash

By the late 1990s, Britain’s railway system was operating in a state of profound structural change. Following privatisation in the…

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The Tri-State Tornado

In 1925, the United States had no modern system for forecasting or warning the public about tornadoes. Meteorology was still…

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Disasters

The Rana Plaza Collapse

In the suburb of Savar, around 24 kilometres north-west of central Dhaka, stood Rana Plaza, an eight-storey concrete structure that…

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The Mount Pelée Eruption

Mount Pelée dominates the northern end of the Caribbean island of Martinique, rising to 1,397 metres above sea level. It…

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