Tag Archives: Typhoons

2010 was Busy Year for Natural Disasters

While 2011 is just getting started and incidents of natural disaster are gearing up and making headlines, last year was quite busy with the Earth rumbling, grumbling, blowing and showing what it can do. According to Our Amazing Planet, 2010 was a big year for earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, landslides, rare tornadoes and hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones around the […]

The Difference between a Cyclone, Typhoon and Hurricane

Do you know the difference between a hurricane, a typhoon and a cyclone? People often think they are one in the same. It is confusing enough to try to keep up with the hurricane season and all the terminology, without having to decipher the difference between the three. All storms are the same after all, […]