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10.
Power Earthquake
When we get powerful earthquakes, say a 6
or 7 on the Richter scale, they generally
cause massive damage.
They’re not just scary, they kill people!
Now, imagine a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.
They’re not only extremely rare, but also
destructive like nothing you’ve seen before.
Previous 9.0 earthquakes have killed 200,000
in the 2004 Indian Ocean area, 16,000 in Japan,
plus a nuclear meltdown, and a few others
throughout history have caused extensive damage.
Now, we might be looking at one in the Pacific
Northwest.
There, the Juan da Fuca plate is slipping
beneath the North American plate, where it’s
been stuck for some time.
As the pressure builds, once the plate gets
free, there’s about to be a huge disaster
on the coast of Vancouver.
In fact, they’re expecting $75B in damages
plus thousands of people wounded and killed.
Predicting when is the hard part, but we know
it can happen any day now.
9.
Space Rocks!
Whether or not we’re expecting the next
dinosaur-murdering asteroid that’s going
to wipe us out, a much smaller asteroid could
set the whole climate out of whack.
A study in 2016 looked into what would happen
if a 1-km in diameter asteroid struck the
Earth.
The results?
Well, a massive crater, dust in our air for
six years, possible wildfires that would take
decades to extinguish, a sudden rise in temperatures
due to particles in the air, and then a sudden
decrease, possibly causing an ice age.
50% less rain, and… shall I go on?
NASA says there are about 900 near-Earth asteroids
big enough to do this.
However, according to Wired, there’s a 0.01%
chance any of the ones we've found so far
will ever hit us.
8.
Worldwide Tornadoes
For a lot of the world, tornadoes are an American
thing.
However, in 1989, 1300 people died thanks
to a massive tornado in Bangladesh.
It’s not alone, either.
The only continent to have never experienced
a tornado is Antarctica.
So, what’s keeping the world from massive
tornadoes?
Just the right climate circumstances, as we
saw in 2004 when a 2.5 mile-wide tornado devastated
Nebraska.
What’s next?
I’m sure we’ll find out.
7.
Exploding Lakes in Africa
When you think of bodies of water that can
kill you, lakes aren’t probably that high
on your list.
Unless you live near these West African lakes
in Cameroon, where, in 1986, they had a limnic
eruption.
This is a result of dissolved CO2 from a nearby
volcano eruption.
The CO2 in Lake Nyos kept accumulating due
to its abnormal stillness, and after a still
unknown trigger, it blew up.
Over 1700 people died, 3500 livestock were
killed, and the lake, which now had iron deposits,
came to the surface and looked blood red.
Since then, scientists are left with more
questions than answers and no body of water
seems safe anymore.
6.
SF Gas Leak
We know the California fault line is coming
for San Francisco, but that’s not all.
There are also threats of toxic gas leaks.
The ocean floor in the area is said to contain
gas leaks, methane specifically.
Now, it would take an unusually large earthquake
to unleash them but you know who has a massive
earthquake in its future?
San Francisco.
Say the earthquake ripped through one of these
bubbles, then what?
Well, a huge oceanic hole would burst out
of nowhere, so big it could sink an oil tanker.
Airplanes would see oxygen drop and could
fall from the sky.
Some say this is exactly what happened around
the Bermuda triangle.
5.
Supervolcano under Yellowstone
Oh, you didn’t hear about that?
The massive National Park with the beautiful
Grand Prismatic Spring sits on a chamber of
magma so big it makes “the floor is lava”
feel like a real thing.
In the past, the volcano has erupted large
amounts of ash, so large you could fill Lake
Erie with them, twice!
About 640,000 years ago, the park saw the
super eruption that carved the Yellowstone
caldera out of the Earth.
The last big eruption was about 70,000 years
ago, so we are about due for another one soon.
If we did see an eruption, it would most likely
kill everyone in the United States, and, according
to many geologists, would eventually kill
3/4 of the world population.
Luckily, scientists are 99% sure it won’t
happen in the 21st century.
4.
Disease
We’ve seen how easily a disease gets out
of control.
With air travel and long incubation periods,
anything could happen.
We’ve seen all the movies, too.
Birdbox alone got us thinking about what type
of things could make our whole world turn
against each other, how vulnerable we are
to manipulation, and just how easy it is for
Mother Nature to wipe us out with the simple
flu, like it did in 1918.
Who knows, maybe we’ll be calling in sick
sooner than we think.
3.
Gamma Rays
“Well, that came out of nowhere.”
That’s what we’ll be saying when the next
star collapses near us.
Why?
Because if we find ourselves in the path of
the Gamma rays resulting from the death of
a nearby star, we’d all be extinct real
quick.
First of all, there’s radiation.
Also, add to that toxic energy, no atmosphere
to protect us from the sun, and basically
being burned alive by the Sun.
If stars around us could just stay alive,
that’d be great.
2.
Solar Flares
This one may not be just waiting to happen.
In fact, solar flares happen all the time.
The magnitude is what has us a little worried.
A huge solar flare toward us would be much
worse than a sunburn or a hot day.
We’d be overexposed to cosmic energy and
radiation.
All of our brain activity could be affected,
and, add to that the fact that natural disasters
would be on their way back to back.
1.
Ice Age
Despite the movies having made it look incredibly
fun and interesting, a new Ice Age is not
in our best interests.
In fact, it would probably be the end of all
humanity.
A global freeze has, according to science,
taken over our Earth at least four times.
This happens when Jupiter and Saturn pull
us a bit away from the sun and limit our sunlight.
In the future, the ice will reflect the sunlight,
making it even worse, and we’ll have no
fossil fuels left to build a fire at that
point, so if we’re to survive, we need to
figure out h ow to stay alive fast.
Any ideas?
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