Answer the following questions. Type in no more than three words or/and a number. Where were the houses destroyed and damaged? How many deaths were confirmed after the earthquake? How many firefighters died in wildfires? текст. A natural disaster is a crucial catastrophic event resulting from natural processes of the Earth. Disasters may be explosions, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, or wildfires. All kinds are usually very damaging. Many houses, roads and even whole streets and cities are ruined. Thousands of people get injured or die in disasters. All these natural disasters occur all around the world. In January 2020, Taal volcano erupted in the Philippines. The plume coming from the Taal volcano, stretched about 1km (0.6 miles) into the sky. Seismologists warned of the possibility of further hazardous eruptions and thousands of people were evacuated from surrounding areas. A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 occurred in the west coast of Turkey. The earthquake led to the destruction and damage of houses in the province of Izmir. A small tremor caused huge waves that hit coastal areas and islands in Turkey. Sixty-two deaths confirmed, but dozens of people remain unaccounted for following the quake.
Albert Einstein was an outstanding German-born theoretical physicist and one of the fathers of modern physics. He received a Nobel Prize in Physics and was an Honorary Doctor of about 20 leading universities in the world. Einstein wrote more than 300 scientific papers and 150 books on the history and essence of science. He was born on March 14th, 1879, in Ulm, in the family of a salesman. His father and his uncle were the founders of one electrical equipment company. His mother was a housewife. When he was still a toddler, his family moved to Munchen where Albert attended a Catholic elementary school. Later, he transferred to Gymnasium, which now has his name. When he turned 14, he moved to Switzerland, where he studied at the Zurich Polytechnic School. Starting from 1909, he taught at this educational institution and became a Professor.
At the age of 34, he was already the director of the Institute of Physics and a Professor of the University of Berlin. In 1933 he was forced to leave Germany by the Nazis. He moved to the USA then and lectured there at Princeton until his death. His three important scientific works on the theory of relativity, the Brownian motion and quantum theory were published already in 1905. The next year, he created the formula about the relation between mass and energy. In 1916, he predicted the phenomenon of induced radiation of atoms. A year later he completed the general theory of relativity. His theory for the first time in science showed the link between the space-time geometry and distribution of mass in the universe. This theory was based on Newton’s gravitational law. Although Einstein’s theories seemed too revolutionary for that time, he soon received a number of confirmations.
In 1920s and 1930s the anti-Semitism was gradually gaining popularity in Germany. His theory of relativity became a subject of criticism. When the scientific work became impossible in his native country, he moved to the USA. There, he instantly received a professorship at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Unified field theory became the subject of his scientific research for the last twenty years of his life. He tried to bring the theory of gravitation and electromagnetic field together. During the Second World War, he heard of the German uranium project and wrote an open letter to the US President Franklin warning about the possible consequences of the Nazi’s creation of atomic bomb. Shortly before his death, Einstein signed a petition addressed to the governments of all countries, warning them about the dangers of hydrogen bomb and nuclear weapons.
An outstanding and brilliant physicist died on April 18th, 1955. During his life he had a great number of honorary awards and world recognition. He had once received an offer to become the president of Israel, which he politely refused. In 1999, “The Times” magazine named him the man of the century. Einstein was married twice. He met his first wife when he was studying in Zurich. The couple had two sons. In 1919, he got a divorce and married his widowed cousin Elsa, who died in 1936. In his free time he liked playing the violin and was rather good at it. Another cherished hobby of the scientist was sailing.(Про Альберта Эйнштейна)
The 2000s were marked by significant economic growth in Asian countries, especially in China and India (by analogy with the previous "American century", the XXI century is considered the "Asian century"). Economic growth was accompanied by a rise in oil prices, which reached their all-time high in July 2008. At the same time, the crisis that began in the United States associated with an avalanche-like increase in loan defaults provoked a global recession in 2008.
After the unprecedented scale of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, the American government declared the so-called. "War on terrorism", in which the wars began in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). Conflicts continued in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the post-Soviet space. The disintegration of Yugoslavia is over. The expansion of NATO continued, in 2001 the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was established.
There was a widespread introduction of digital technologies: the development of the Internet and a significant increase in its role in society, the spread of mobile phones, digital cameras, the emergence of the Blu-ray format. Construction of the ISS continued. In 2001, the Mir orbital station was flooded. The geography of the "space club" expanded: in 2003, China launched its first cosmonaut into space, and in 2009, Iran launched its first satellite.
As indicated in 2014 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the 2000s were the warmest in the history of meteorological observations.