Poll: Worst natural disaster
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I've lived thru floods,hurricanes and earthquakes...the rest are a piece of cake
1986 lived thru a flood...water as high as my head in my house... 1989...lived thru a hurricane on the east coast... and since I live in Ca... well we have earthquakes all the time...what could be worse than all that???
1986 lived thru a flood...water as high as my head in my house... 1989...lived thru a hurricane on the east coast... and since I live in Ca... well we have earthquakes all the time...what could be worse than all that???
I am thinking that a major volcano eruption could be the worst. Example .
volcano.und.nodak.edu
Krakatau erupted in 1883, in one of the largest eruptions in recent time. Krakatau is an island volcano along the Indonesian arc, between the much larger islands of Sumatra and Java (each of which has many volcanoes also along the arc).
1. The explosions were heard on Rodriguez Island, 4653 km distant across the Indian Ocean, and over 1/13th of the earth's surface.
2. Ash fell on Singapore 840 km to the N, Cocos (Keeling) Island 1155 km to the SW, and ships as far as 6076 km WNW. Darkness covered the Sunda Straits from 11 a.m. onthe 27th until dawn the next day.
3. Giant waves reached heights of 40 m above sea level, devastating everything in their path and hurling ashore coral blocks weighing as much as 600 tons.
4. At least 36,417 people were killed, most by the giant sea waves, and 165 coastal villages were destroyed.
5. When the eruption ended only 1/3 of Krakatau, formerly 5x9 km, remained above sea level, and new islands of steaming pumice and ash lay to the north where the sea had been 36 m deep.
6. Every recording barograph in the world ducumented the passage of the airwave, some as many as 7 times as the wave bounced back and forth between the eruption site and its antipodes for 5 days after the explosion.
7. Tide gauges also recorded the sea wave's passage far from Krakatau. The wave "reached Aden in 12 hours, a distance of 3800 nautical
miles, usually traversed by a good steamer in 12 days".
8. Blue and green suns were observed as fine ash and aerosol, erupted perhaps 50 km into the stratosphere, circled the equator in 13 days.
9. Theree months after the eruption these products had spread to higher latitudes causing such vivid red sunset afterglows that fire engines were called out in New York, Poughkeepsie, and New Haven to quench the apparent conflagration. Unusual sunsets continued for 3 years.
10. Rafts of floating pumice-locally thick enouth to support men, trees, and no doubt other biological passengers-crossed the indian Ocean in 10
months. Others reached Melanesia, and were still afloat two years after the eruption.
11. The volcanic dust veil that created such spectacular atmospheric effects also acted as a solar radiation filter, lowering global temperatures as much as 1.2 degree C in the year after the eruption. Temperatures did not return to normal until 1888.
Though that might be the solution to the global warming problem.
volcano.und.nodak.edu
Krakatau erupted in 1883, in one of the largest eruptions in recent time. Krakatau is an island volcano along the Indonesian arc, between the much larger islands of Sumatra and Java (each of which has many volcanoes also along the arc).
1. The explosions were heard on Rodriguez Island, 4653 km distant across the Indian Ocean, and over 1/13th of the earth's surface.
2. Ash fell on Singapore 840 km to the N, Cocos (Keeling) Island 1155 km to the SW, and ships as far as 6076 km WNW. Darkness covered the Sunda Straits from 11 a.m. onthe 27th until dawn the next day.
3. Giant waves reached heights of 40 m above sea level, devastating everything in their path and hurling ashore coral blocks weighing as much as 600 tons.
4. At least 36,417 people were killed, most by the giant sea waves, and 165 coastal villages were destroyed.
5. When the eruption ended only 1/3 of Krakatau, formerly 5x9 km, remained above sea level, and new islands of steaming pumice and ash lay to the north where the sea had been 36 m deep.
6. Every recording barograph in the world ducumented the passage of the airwave, some as many as 7 times as the wave bounced back and forth between the eruption site and its antipodes for 5 days after the explosion.
7. Tide gauges also recorded the sea wave's passage far from Krakatau. The wave "reached Aden in 12 hours, a distance of 3800 nautical
miles, usually traversed by a good steamer in 12 days".
8. Blue and green suns were observed as fine ash and aerosol, erupted perhaps 50 km into the stratosphere, circled the equator in 13 days.
9. Theree months after the eruption these products had spread to higher latitudes causing such vivid red sunset afterglows that fire engines were called out in New York, Poughkeepsie, and New Haven to quench the apparent conflagration. Unusual sunsets continued for 3 years.
10. Rafts of floating pumice-locally thick enouth to support men, trees, and no doubt other biological passengers-crossed the indian Ocean in 10
months. Others reached Melanesia, and were still afloat two years after the eruption.
11. The volcanic dust veil that created such spectacular atmospheric effects also acted as a solar radiation filter, lowering global temperatures as much as 1.2 degree C in the year after the eruption. Temperatures did not return to normal until 1888.
Though that might be the solution to the global warming problem.
Are we forgetting a famine? That's a natural disaster. A famine can have severe consequences for people all over the world.
naw... I got you all beat... the WORST natural disaster would be for a meteor the size of Hale Bopp to hit the earth...end of story... end of life as we know it
kamiam, with a meteor strike 99% of the worlds population would die within 12hrs. With a famine or plague, 30% of the worlds population could die a horrid and slow death. Remember the black plague? Of these two, I would rather die quickly by a meteor.
I win!
I win!
Anyone else ever wonder about the possiblity of HIV or a varient mutating into an air-borne virus?
Kamien, good point about the meteor, I was limiting myself to ones that had actually occured.
Kamien, good point about the meteor, I was limiting myself to ones that had actually occured.
<< Remember the black plaque? Of these two, I would rather die quickly by a meteor. >>
Not a chance for me! I always brush.
<< Remember the black plaque? >>
Nar, i dont remember it. I dont know how old you are...but i was born in the 80's.
If I died from a meteor, i wouldnt really care. Deaths no biggie. But if a flood ruined everything i owned, and i had to work the rest of my life to build myself up again, thatd break my spirit.
amdforlife
two words, flood insurance
Actually a couple more, your city should have maps showing flood plain zones, don't buy a house in one. We had a 500 year flood back in 86, it was quite a mess.
two words, flood insurance
Actually a couple more, your city should have maps showing flood plain zones, don't buy a house in one. We had a 500 year flood back in 86, it was quite a mess.
Hah, missed the spelling a bit. Plague then! That scenario could very well happen again. The plague was caused by rat dung, which humans breathed. We all know that rats are one of the most successful animals on the earth; they have been flourishing like wild fire.
Mungla if you are referring to the Black plague.
nhnh.essortment.com/historyofblac
..humans got the plague when bitten by fleas and then spread it by coughing. The unsanitary conditions in Medieval Europe allowed the disease to move rapidly northward. London, Florence, Vienna and Avignon (the papal city at the time) where especially hard hit. In Florence alone, 100,000 died within four short months. In some cities estimates say 80-90 percent of the population died.
I believe you are thinking of the haunta virus.
HAUNTA VIRUS
The Haunta Virus is an air born virus, that is spread by way of the urine and feces of the infected rodents. The disturbance of the feces, burrows, working in mice infested buildings, or even outdoors in heavy rodent populated areas. When the Haunta Virus is exposed to direct sunlight, it will quickly die.
nhnh.essortment.com/historyofblac
..humans got the plague when bitten by fleas and then spread it by coughing. The unsanitary conditions in Medieval Europe allowed the disease to move rapidly northward. London, Florence, Vienna and Avignon (the papal city at the time) where especially hard hit. In Florence alone, 100,000 died within four short months. In some cities estimates say 80-90 percent of the population died.
I believe you are thinking of the haunta virus.
HAUNTA VIRUS
The Haunta Virus is an air born virus, that is spread by way of the urine and feces of the infected rodents. The disturbance of the feces, burrows, working in mice infested buildings, or even outdoors in heavy rodent populated areas. When the Haunta Virus is exposed to direct sunlight, it will quickly die.
Etech... actually it has happened... just not in the short time man has emerged on earth...scientists using explosives combined w/ sensitive seismic sensors and sat. scanning think they have discovered the crash site of the meteor that took out the dinosaurs off the Yucatan penninsula... they have mapped a great magnetic and geological disturbence there and believe it to be the site where a meteor struck, they also believe this is the one that took the dinosaurs out can't remember the figures but it was massive...chunks as big as city blocks(I believe) rained down as far away as N.Y. ares
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Depends where you're living. An earthquake would easily be the most destructive, especially in a large city. It releases the most energy in the quickest amount of time. Floods move water, tornados move air, and earthquakes move rock! The day a city like New York or Seattle has a large quake we can expect the potential for up to 1 million deaths over a 1-2 week period.
If you're in a rural area a tornado or flood would be the worst as you're pretty left left uninformed and alone.
Death by disease/famine and earthquake (burried alive in your house/apartment) would probably be the worst as they take time and would be quite painful.
Personally a tornado or earthquake would scare me as there is no warning. As least with a hurricane, flood or fire you have some warning in minutes or maybe days.
If you're in a rural area a tornado or flood would be the worst as you're pretty left left uninformed and alone.
Death by disease/famine and earthquake (burried alive in your house/apartment) would probably be the worst as they take time and would be quite painful.
Personally a tornado or earthquake would scare me as there is no warning. As least with a hurricane, flood or fire you have some warning in minutes or maybe days.
earthquake's been noted, as has famine, but how bout a 'voluntary' famine, ie the Great Leap Forward in China in the late 50s, something between 10-40mil died
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Believe it or not, I have been through a hurricane (Hurricane Bob, on eastern Long Island, NY), a volcano (Mount Spurr, in Anchorage AK), many earthquakes in AK and San Francisco, several good-sized blizzards in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and a few tornadoes (including the largest, fastest one in North American history, in Oklahoma City). The tornado was by far the worst (largely because it was of the greatest magnitude), but as a general proposition I would least want to be in a bad hurricane or typhoon.
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