Natural Disasters: Top 10 U.S. Threats

LiveScience.com ^ | September 2005 | Robert Roy Britt

[Momaw Nadon]

FYI and discussion

[loreldan]

Colorado is looking better and better.

[LilDarlin]

You missed two disasters of recent times in your list. Disasters from which we have yet to fully recover.

1. Clintoon

2. Carter

[LilDarlin]

Colorado is looking better and better.

Don't forget to look deep into the upper mid-west also!

[marine86297]

Something tells me my survival shelter and supplies won't do much good for that whole total destruction of earth thing. Otherwise I'm ready.

[Dumb_Ox]

It seems no coast is immune to the threat of tsunami. For the Eastern United States, the likeliest scenario is waves kicked up by an asteroid splashing into the ocean. Astronomers already have their eye on one rock that could hit in the distant future, but the cosmos could hold a surprise, too.

I thought the likeliest Atlantic tsunami would be caused by a massive landslide on one of the Canary islands.

We're all gonna die!!!!

[Strategerist]

The Canary Islands Tsunami deal has been thoroughly debunked by the majority of tsunami researchers.

Landslide tsunami have trouble propagating long distances, unlike earthquake tsunami, though they can be really high nearby; the wavelengths are different, and more jumbled.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

"I thought the likeliest Atlantic tsunami would be caused by a massive landslide on one of the Canary islands"

haha..La Palma.

[WIladyconservative]

What? No disaster around the Great Lakes? I'm deeply saddened that our area is left out of disaster predicitions like this . . . . .

_{(I felt the last earthquake of any magnitude here from the New Madrid Fault - in the early 70's. Not much shaking to speak of. Our current disaster is a Dem governor and voter fraud in the two largest cities.)}

[TotusTuus]

#1 Total Destruction of Earth

Bummer

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Hey Strategerist..the expected Casacdia ETS is underway.

WOO-HOOO!

[caver]

We're doomed!!

[reagan_fanatic]

Rove. Bush. Halliburton. Destruction of the Earth. You make the connection.

[metmom]

Well, I guess that just about covers it.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Cascadia..I spelled it wrong..you know what I meant...

[Fawn]

....And the biggest impending disaster---Hitlery as President.

[Paloma_55]

Avian Flu

Most populations of organic nature, will grow at an exponential rate until they exceed the capacity of their environment, and then, due to a delay between the consumption and the capacity to respond to that consumption, the population will plummet rapidly.

This rapid decline in population can also come despite reserve capacity if the population *density* gets high enough. With air travel, I think we are approaching the population density that will result in an international pandemic of the order described in the movie 12 Monkeys.

Avian Flu.

[LilDarlin]

....And the biggest impending disaster---Hitlery as President.

She's kind of like that "planet dissolving dust cloud" they're talking about on another thread.

We'll beat her for sure, but any dimocrat would be just as bad....most assuredly better looking....but just as bad.

[MagnoliaB]

"#1 Total Destruction of Earth"

Yeah, isn't there a PLANET DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD HEADED FOR EARTH?

Let me find a good rock to hide under.

LOL!!!!

[metmom]

Wait a minute! They forgot the PLANET DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD mentioned in the next thread.