as our world wildly fears towards one
disaster to another it's also a good
idea to stop and smell the rapidly
decaying roses once in a while just to
remind us that things could always be
worse from water tornadoes to the
curiously titled icicles of death here
are the 15 most dangerous natural
phenomena in the world
number 15 waterspout from its name alone
you know the waterspout is probably not
going to be pleasant but the reality is
actually even worse if you can believe
that
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just once I'd like to find a natural
phenomenon called a candy spout or
something can we make that happen
universe to put things in the most basic
and understandable terms a waterspout
is a tornado that forms over water it
shares all the same basic
characteristics as a land-based
tornado only this one is often
accompanied by thunderstorms high winds
violent seas large hail and some very
very dangerous lightning so altogether
it's terrible news for boats in fact
there are many reports of ships being
sunk by water spouts throughout history
making this one of the most deadly
natural phenomena you can hope to find
in a non land setting won't let it get
what it would surely just about anybody
that spends a portion of their life on
the sea will see a waterspout at some
point in their life and all will agree
that it's never a pleasant encounter
often it results in destruction death or
just some very very ruined pants before
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number fourteen Reineke we didn't make
this one up I promise the brining coal
is very real and it's pretty much fatal
for anybody that happens to get caught
up in it although let's be honest
death by brine achill sounds like a
great one for the eulogy a brine achill
is what happens when frigid air
temperatures cause sea water in the
Arctic regions of the globe to freeze
while all other water tends to freeze
into one solid block of ice this sea
water freezes as a weird sponge like
crystalline structure that has some
concentrated salt water or brine within
it hence brine achill what a creative
name however consider yourself lucky Bry
Nicole's are apparently not dangerous to
humans since we never really travel
beneath the ice sheets but for the
creatures that do dwell down there well
they get stuck in what are commonly
referred to as the icicles of death
that's an even better one for the eulogy
a brine achill is a fascinating thing
and it's the cause of death for many a
clueless bottom-feeder human suck-ups
accepted but still very few people seem
to know anything about them I mean I
still think they're made up and I've
seen the evidence number 13
beacon of Maracaibo is this not one of
the coolest named phenomena you've ever
heard of in your life the beacon of
Maracaibo is pretty breathtaking and
just a little dangerous it's also a
world-record holder which I'm pretty
sure is a rare occurrence for a natural
phenomenon they don't tend to have many
talents for over nine hours a day on 300
days of the year there is a continuous
streak of lightning that hits over
Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo it's such a
regular occurrence that the Guinness
Book of World Records named Venezuela as
the holder of the record for highest
concentration of lightning which is
pretty cool right
not when you consider the plight of the
poor fishermen while it might be kind of
awesome to be working in the Lightning
capital of the world almost three people
die every year as a result of the
electrical bolts almost always fishermen
who simply have no way to avoid it out
on the lake there's probably nothing
scarier for a fisherman than to suddenly
be surrounded by lightning bolts and for
those bolts to just keep going for hours
and hours and hours
well maybe mutant fish but those are
more of an ocean thing number 12
submarine volcano we've spent so much of
our time on this planet freaking out
about land volcanoes that we never
stopped to freak out about the many
volcanoes lurking underwater and there
are many apparently it's really
surprising that we still go into the
ocean at all the whole thing seems
designed to just kill us
in fact some of the most productive
volcanoes on earth lie deep underwater
many under 8,500 feet of water to be
specific
these submarine volcanoes produce around
75% of the world's annual output of
magma it's all of that magma and lava
that then provide the world's most
unusual ecosystems with heat and
chemicals
believe it or not so they're productive
and also helpful which believe me is a
rare combination while most people have
never heard of a submarine volcano
they'll most definitely have seen the
consequences of an underwater eruption
powerful shipwrecks and even more
destructive tsunamis the submarine
volcano has all the same frightening
power that a land-based equivalent acts
only it's submerged in water
there's nothing simpler nothing gentler
about it this thing could kill you and
then it'll do its best to kill everyone
on land best of both worlds number 11
ice tsunami it may look like we're just
putting words together now but we're not
well we are but not in this case
the ice tsunami is an impressive visual
phenomenon that is also incredibly
dangerous for unsuspecting humans
mostly because we've never seen it
before also we're pretty stupid for an
intelligent species an ice tsunami is
not the same as a water tsunami in fact
the ice tsunami works more as a big
moving iceberg if the ocean current is
particularly strong or the winds are
powerful the waves push huge piles of
ice onto the land some up to 40 feet
high the power of these ice tsunami is
so immense that it can completely
destroy buildings just by impact and
they've been known to completely level
small villages and yet people still go
out with their camera to get an up-close
look at them some people never learned
the ice tsunami is a rare natural
phenomenon but that doesn't mean it will
never happen in actuality these things
are extremely powerful and when they do
happen they happen you don't want to be
in your house if one of these things
ever touches it you'll be wearing the
roof number 10 milky sea phenomenon
legendary adventure writer Jules Verne
invented many things for his work but
one of the things he did and not invent
is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
the Milky sea a phenomenon that sees
water mysteriously light up in an almost
inhuman glow
this patch of ocean measuring roughly
the same size as Connecticut was pretty
much unknown until 2005 but as far back
as 1870 jules verne was writing about it
describing it as a large extent of white
wavelets often to be seen on the coasts
of an buna vernon later describes the
effect as being caused by a luminous
worm known as infusoria although nobody
really knows if that's true or not
however this phenomenon is dangerous for
a slightly different reason than you'd
expect people keep falling in seriously
given its magical neon quality people
keep leaning over to get a closer look
and find themselves falling into the
cold blue deep and who knows what's down
there sea cows maybe if you're looking
to avoid a watery death it's probably
good advice to not go diving into the
ocean just because you see a bit of
glowy surface water consider that a life
tip from your good friends here don't
die number 9 global warming if there's
one natural phenomenon we should be
concerned about over all others it's
this climate change is real and it's
already causing irreversible damage to
the natural state of our world global
warming is already becoming
uncontrollable when carbon dioxide or
co2 and other pollutants or greenhouse
gases gather in the atmosphere they
begin absorbing the sunlight and solar
radiation but whereas typically this
radiation would just evaporate into
space those accumulated pollutants trap
the heat and reflect it back towards the
planet resulting in the greenhouse
effect or if you want a more
straightforward named global warming
which in turn is just one aspect of
climate change if global warming were to
continue escalating we'd see animals
going extinct water drying up around the
world as well as more unpredictable
weather patterns and wildfires it's all
very mad max'
scientists have been warning of these
environmental problems for decades but
things have never been quite so stark
there is only a small window of time to
change our habits save our world and of
what could be a devastating catastrophe
for our planet and all who live upon it
so in essence this is a very dangerous
phenomenon and we should all take it
seriously
number eight fire world yes fire whirls
sound like a really fun thing that would
happen on Independence Day or something
but they're actually not fun at all a
single fire whirl can cause miles and
miles of devastation some of which may
never actually be undone a fire whirl is
a rising twist of hot air
that sucks flames up and basically turns
itself into a towering blazing whirlwind
if they become big enough these things
can become full-scale fire tornadoes
which combine the devastation of a
regular tornado with some extra Bernie
chaos fire whirls are generally only
found in the midst of wildfires but that
doesn't necessarily have to be the case
they are however dangerous in just about
every single way with one famous 1923
world in Japan killing 38,000 people in
just 15 minutes that should give you an
idea of just how powerful these flames
can be not to mention unpredictable fire
whirls are thankfully pretty rare but
you can bet that they will appear as
often as wildfires or other natural
disasters occur around the world
they're the unwelcomed guests at a
nightmare more often than not definitely
not one for Independence Day maybe Earth
Day number seven show me storm it's
pretty unsettling to see a whole city
under water no matter the circumstances
but there's an unusual extra helping of
unsettling when it comes to the sudden
influx of sea foam running through a
city
it's hard to imagine that there is an
explanation for this one but I'll find a
way this is a rare occurrence it
generally happens after big storms or
cyclones washing up the salt waters
proteins dead algae and other particles
onto the surface and more often than not
into the streets of its nearby city the
unusual phenomenon has been documented
by many confused citizens who just
couldn't figure out what was happening
but experts have also said that there
may be an extra level of danger to this
random flooding
apparently the displacement of the water
brings with it sea snakes that are also
washed onto the surface but while a bite
from a sea snake is unlikely it's
venomous so be warned thankfully this is
an extremely rare phenomenon and one
that usually ends with no deaths or even
injuries all things considered that's a
pretty good outcome for what could be
one of the more extreme weather
phenomena and that explanation that I
came up with malfunction at the sea foam
factory number six avalanches do we
really need to explain why avalanches
are so dangerous it's just a collection
of big hunks of snow and ice falling at
a speed so great that it could quickly
flatten you on impact there are so many
movies and stories about the danger of
avalanches that it almost feels
pointless to explain but it's my job so
get ready for some splainin
most avalanches are caused by humans
around 90% in fact and they're usually
the cause of approximately 40 deaths in
the United States alone but the real
danger of the Avalanche comes from the
unpredictability of their arrival
there's simply no way to know where or
when one of these natural killers will
strike some could be powdered snow
sloths moving as a relatively harmless
mess or they could be huge slabs of snow
and ice moving it up to 100 miles an
hour that's substantially less harmless
given just how dangerous and fatal
avalanches can be it's shocking to see
just how little skiers and tourists
actually know about them this lack of
education more often than not results in
some calamity and disaster which could
be easily averted number 5 wildfires of
all the natural disasters you can suffer
this has to be one of the most feared
we've all seen the catastrophic
wildfires that have swept the planet
over the past few years so we all know
just how devastating these things can be
wildfires are unplanned fires that
spread across natural areas like Forest
or grassland while most are started by
humans or just natural phenomena around
half are complete mysteries and nobody
truly knows how they began a single
wildfire can result in a spread that all
but wipes out the basic necessities of
human life transportation communication
water supply air quality I could go on
there's never been a wildfire that has
not in some way disrupted the lives of
those nearby or in some cases taken the
lives of those nearby to sum up a
wildfire is one of the most dangerous
blazes you could ever experience of all
the phenomena on our list this one isn't
particularly surprising everybody has
seen the impact that they can have not
to mention just how impossible they can
be to put out once they're ignited
number four lightning strikes the
chances of you being struck by lightning
are low to say the least there's about a
1 in 1.2 million chance of you being
struck by lightning in a given year so
it's not something to be concerned about
when you leave the house but it can be
pretty unfortunate a bolt of lightning
travels around 300,000 kilometres an
hour and will strike a power of around
300 volts and will strike at a power of
around three hundred kilovolts
which I'm sure you know is aa lot in
fact it's more energy than can be found
in a nuclear reactor if you are struck
by that bolt the disruption in your
heart's rhythm would possibly result in
sudden cardiac arrest which is the thing
that most often kills victims of
lightning if you were unlucky enough to
have the bolt enter your skull it would
cook your brain and land you in a coma
or even permanent paralysis all of this
is very bleak and sounds terrifying but
again the chances of you getting struck
by a lightning bolt are so low that it
almost doesn't make sense to even think
about it you are probably more likely to
choke on a bar of chocolate
great now I'm scared of chocolate number
three tornadoes we've all seen The
Wizard of Oz right well here's another
example of how movies have lied to us
tornado's do not in fact whisk you away
to a better world more often than not
they just destroy everything and slam
you into the side of a flying cow very
few people know that tornadoes actually
start from thunderstorms that then
extend the rotating column of air down
to the ground that column then goes on
to cause untold destruction across
whichever location is unfortunate enough
to have been hit the more violent
tornadoes can generate wind speeds of up
to 300 miles per hour
capable of destroying large buildings
and hurling vehicles some hundreds of
yards away all of this damage together
can be anywhere up to 50 miles in length
it's hard to imagine a simple column of
air causing this much damage but it's
absolutely true
tornadoes are relatively rare compared
to other natural phenomena but they're
incredibly dangerous and should be
avoided at all costs
duhh also anyone that goes tornado
chasing is nothing short of a moron do
not follow their lead it'll only end up
with you starting a podcast and lord
knows we have enough number two
landslides a landslide is the unhinged
cousin of the Avalanche an unpredictable
and gleefully chaotic falling of rocks
earth or debris along a sloped section
of land they're also one of the
costliest natural disasters in the world
but we'll get to that
usually landslides are caused by other
natural disasters including earthquakes
volcanoes or rain so in a way they're
like aftershocks and earthquakes if not
more costly when they occur in or near
populated areas they can be a major life
threatening hazard and are often found
to cause somewhere between 25 and 50
deaths per year in the United States
and that's before we factor in the
economic cost in the US alone yearly
earthquakes cost up to 3.5 billion in
damage and since they're a natural
phenomenon there's nothing that can be
done like the Avalanche there are too
few people educated on the dangers of
these natural killers landslides are
some of the most fatal natural disasters
you could hope to find anywhere in the
world
they're definitely something to be
concerned about this is the wrong type
of rock and roll I'm so ashamed of
myself number one
earthquakes need we say more
the earthquake is the most dangerous
natural phenomena in the world if only
because it's both the most fatal and the
most common anywhere on the planet
most people will experience an
earthquake at some point in their lives
so this should be hashtag relatable the
cause of earthquakes begins in you
guessed it the earth went underground
rock breaks along the fault the sudden
release of energy creates seismic waves
that force the broken rocks to rub
together until they break when the rocks
break the pressure is released and the
earthquake finally occurs until they get
stuck again
earthquakes are responsible for an
unimaginable amount of deaths every
single year and cost a substantial
amount in damages
it seems that we see a number of
countries experiencing the devastation
every single year and sadly that isn't
going to end anytime soon
what makes earthquakes doubly dangerous
is its consequences strong earthquakes
bring aftershocks tsunamis landslides
and a whole bunch of other entries on
our list an earthquake is not just a
disaster in its own right it's basically
the key that opens up a lot of doors to
a lot of extra trouble have you ever
witnessed or experienced any of these
natural phenomena let us know in the
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