Interesting Natural Disaster Stats

[GIMME]

Interesting Stats for Natural Disasters. Found on BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4136153.stm

- 2004 Asian quake disaster - over 122,000 dead
- 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran - official casualty figure is 26,271
- 1976 Earthquake in Tangshan, China, kills 242,000
- 1970 Cyclone in Bangladesh kills 500,000
- 1887 China's Yellow River breaks its banks in Huayan Kou killing 900,000
- 1826 Tsunami kills 27,000 in Japan
- 1815 Volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa Island kills 90,000
- 1556 Earthquake in China's Shanxi and Henan provinces kills 830,000

Mother Nature's Vengeance is bone chilling!

Another interesting point is that the Earthquake in Iran that happened on 2003 also happened on December 26th!

 

[WhOiSyOdAdDy?]

Mother Nature's Vengeance is bone chilling!

Not really.. over the period of time, above, it is a very small percentage of the total number of people that existde, that was killed by a natural disaster.

Could it be that the earth is alive in some way and using natural disasters as a defense mechanism against an infection (people / over population)?

 

[n_v]

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Could it be that the earth is alive in some way and using natural disasters as a defense mechanism against an infection (people / over population)?

Not a question in my eyes at all. It's called population control.

 

[GIMME]

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Could it be that the earth is alive in some way and using natural disasters as a defense mechanism against an infection (people / over population)?

Wonder if there is any truth to the movie "Day after Tommorow", but in what we see?

2004 will probably go down as one of the most turbulent years ever. From the fury of the hurricanes, the weird weather patterns, and now this earthquake. There is something definately wrong.

Some other interesting points, this 9.0 Eartquake caused the earth to shake on it's axial tilt, and changed the Geography of the area, plus increased the earth's spin rate reducing the standard day by .003 seconds. Wonder what the long term affect of this would be?

 

[Esco!]

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Wonder if there is any truth to the movie "Day after Tommorow", but in what we see?

Yes and guess what, Wednesday Jan 5th 2005 the high is forecasted to be plus 16 degrees Celsius.
Surely some kinda record

See here my freaks:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/cities/can/pages/CAON0696.htm

 

[WhOiSyOdAdDy?]

We are getting close to the end. 2012 is only 7 years away.. or is it now only 6.993 year because of the sped up rotation?

 

[stang]

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Yes and guess what, Monday Jan 5th 2005 the high is forecasted to be plus 16 degrees Celsius.

Shit, the quake musta really screwed up the Earth's rotation all right. On my now usless calender it still says Monday is January 3rd.
How about that!

 

[GIMME]

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Shit, the quake musta really screwed up the Earth's rotation all right. On my now usless calender it still says Monday is January 3rd.
How about that!

....Must be faster than .003 seconds....

 

[GIMME]

We are getting close to the end. 2012 is only 7 years aay.

People are speculating a lot now. I was in a restaurant today and overheard people saying the nasty weather the West Coast of US is experiencing is due to the Earthquake's impact to the world (faster spin rate and possible axial shift).

 

[Esco!]

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Shit, the quake musta really screwed up the Earth's rotation all right. On my now usless calender it still says Monday is January 3rd.
How about that!

Shit!!! Typo, make that Wednesday Jan 5th 2005

 

[WhOiSyOdAdDy?]

The fact that all species on Earth except viruses, rats and humans are dying out is natural disaster to me.

you forgot to mention cockroaches

 

[Esco!]

Maybe someone with good computer skills can look up what the record high was for Jan. 5th in the last 100 years
See if its a record and by how much. I'm willing to bet at least 5 or 6 degrees

 

[Esco!]

OK, I did some searching and according to this stats website:

http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climateData/hourlydata_e.html

The warmest its ever been in T.O on jan 5th is 8.8 degrees which was in 1997

That means if the forecast is right (which it probably wont be), the old record will fall by 6 degrees or so

 

[chunkylover53]

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Not a question in my eyes at all. It's called population control.

You guys are kidding me, right? Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, forest fires, volcanic eruptions, ice ages, etc. were happening millions of years before humans came along and will continue to occur long after we're gone. Compared to the earth's entire lifespan, recorded history is like a blink of the eye.

 

[HafDun]

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Yes and guess what, Wednesday Jan 5th 2005 the high is forecasted to be plus 16 degrees Celsius.
Surely some kinda record

See here my freaks:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/cities/can/pages/CAON0696.htm

That could be a record for Jan 5th but it is not unprecedented for high tempatures in January. We usually get a natural phenomenon known as January thaw.
16.1 degrees Celcius was recorded in January 1967 in Toronto which is probably a record for January. Toronto has numerous instances of January temperatures in the low to mid teens over the last hundred years.

 

[langeweile]

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That could be a record for Jan 5th but it is not unprecedented for high tempatures in January. We usually get a natural phenomenon known as January thaw.
16.1 degrees Celcius was recorded in January 1967 in Toronto which is probably a record for January. Toronto has numerous instances of January temperatures in the low to mid teens over the last hundred years.

Does that mean that Toronto becomes the next Key West? Time to buy up some beach front properties.

 

[WhOiSyOdAdDy?]

The tsunami finally hit Canada 32 hours after the earthquke, the west coast of Vancouver Island and it was a whopping 10cm by the time it hit.

 

[Fatshaft]

One stat that intrigued me, if true, is that apparrently no animals have been found dead. Some say it's natural for them to predict these things and seek safe ground. I guess it's just Mother Nature at work.

 

[WhOiSyOdAdDy?]

Apparently a women with 9 year old twins was swept out to sea and managed to grab ahold of a snake "as long as a telephone pole" which took them back to shore.

another women, swept out to sea with her 2 kids had to choose between her 2 kids. She decided to sacrafice the 5 year old as she could not hold onto 2. She chose to try to save the 2 month old while the 5 year old was left on his own. Somehow he managed to find a floating piece of debris and dog paddled for 2 hours, making it back to shore.

 

[GIMME]

I can't even begin to think of what that woman must have gone through.

Its a choice many didn't want to make. Lots of mothers did not want to give up any of their children and tried to save them all.....some managed to, while majority ended up getting caught by the water.

The question is could I make such a decision? Right now, I have no idea. Its an impossible decision to make.