Natural disasters 2024, April

In the coming days, people around the world will be able to observe the impressive Taurid meteor shower in the night sky. The so-called Taurids, also known as "Halloween fireballs" - this is the annual meteor shower observed in September - December

Each of us at least once, but thought about what happened then when nothing existed. The answer to this rhetorical question does not exist, but if you start from the popular theory of the big bang - then there was cold in the void

As a result of heavy rain and hail, which took place the day before in Maikop, cars and roofs of private households suffered the most. According to the information of the Adyghe hydrometeorological center, in the republican capital on May 30, 16 mm fell in one hour. precipitation

At least two people died and many were injured during the terrible weather that hit the South of the United States on the weekend

Scientists' calculations: the danger of global warming is underestimated. Antarctica is melting. There are regular reports that huge ice layers are slipping and breaking off from it

Scientists at the University of Albert (Canada) have found that the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere during the melting of permafrost is underestimated due to the weathering of ice-free rocks with the participation of sulfuric acid

The impact of global warming on the ecological and meteorological components of our planet continues. The abnormally warm spring of 2016 was just another link in the recorded changes, the temperature rise is observed across the globe

A video has been posted on the Internet in which scientists have tried to show how the melting of all Arctic glaciers can affect the planet itself and its population. In their opinion, the consequences of this may become similar to the Apocalypse

A 200-meter tsunami hit Alaska, but no one noticed. Scientists have found that melting glaciers can cause such natural phenomena in other parts of the world

Do you think the blizzard that claimed a huge number of human lives occurred in one of the countries with a cold climate? Not at all

A recent UN report, The Human Cost of Weather Associated with Disasters, shows that 157,000 people have died as a result of floods in the past 20 years

Hundreds of thousands of victims, massive destruction and years spent on elimination of the consequences, - no matter how technologically advanced humanity is, until it has learned to cope with powerful tremors and the accompanying tsunami, landslide

In the rocky desert of the Andean mountains lies the picturesque Callejón de Huaylas valley

The strongest eruption of Mount of the Gods, a volcano in Tanzania, is inevitable. And it could wipe out key places in human history from the face of the Earth, scientists warn

About 65 - 66 million years ago, our planet experienced the last great mass extinction (the so-called Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction). It led to the death of about one-sixth of all terrestrial species

Scientists from NASA suggested that the volcano on Mars could have caused the death of the dinosaurs. According to the researchers, the increased activity of the Martian volcano Arsia could trigger the processes that provoked the extinction of the dinosaurs

A group of American seismologists has prepared a report on the growing threat of earthquakes on the planet. Scientists link the increase and increase in tremors with human activity

The natural first reaction to such a headline of an advanced reader would be to go to USGS.gov to check the information and his first thought would be: “ the author is crazy & rdquo

There are many volcanoes on our planet and when they erupt, those who are in the immediate vicinity will suffer. But this does not apply to supervolcanoes. If they start waking up - not only the districts will suffer, but our entire planet

American settlers have long been attracted to the prairies in the Midwest (present-day Kansas). At the end of the 19th century, young, strong workers went there with all their simple belongings to develop new lands

Scientists' disappointing predictions regarding the extinction of the white population of the United States have caused heated debate. While some researchers insist on the irreversibility of this process, others point out the fallacy of such views

Tornadoes - not such a frequent occurrence in central Russia. Therefore, a natural disaster in the Ivanovo region became a rather noticeable and dramatic event in the history of the USSR, even reflected in literature and cinema. Where did the tornado come from?

British scientists predicted the death of 10% of the world's population in the next five years due to global catastrophes, most of which mankind at this stage of development cannot prevent

The famous physicist predicted that global warming will make the climate on our planet the same as on Venus

On August 12, 2015, in the Chinese metropolis of Tianjin, a series of monstrous explosions thundered in warehouses where toxic substances were stored. Experts call the disaster "little Chernobyl"

How is this possible? The fact is that all over the world in the deep layers of the soil at the bottom of the oceans there are dangerous natural burials, they are called gas hydrates. It is a specific compound made from methane and water

People today tend to have to deal with one climate disaster at a time

By 2100, the level of the oceans will rise by 65 centimeters. Across the planet, dozens of coastal megacities, where millions of people live, fall into the flood zone. Residents of many coastal areas of the Earth just right to prepare for evacuation

Scientists from Concordia University (Canada) have found the cause of the "death zone", that is, an area of low temperature and density, inside a tornado

Realizing that snow in avalanches can behave both as a liquid and as a solid, scientists from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne were able to create a computer model of the collapse of a layer of compacted snow, the so-called "snowboard", with an unprecedented

Scientists from France and Greece have explained in a new way the cause of the death of the mysterious Minoan civilization and the origin of the legend of Atlantis

Over the course of several thousand years, humanity has repeatedly suffered from destructive natural disasters that wiped out entire cities from the face of the Earth, and nightmare epidemics that claimed millions of lives

Yellowstone is a supervolcano in the United States. For several years now, the world has been agitated by the news that it is about to wake up, a catastrophe will happen, America will end, and the world will plunge into a nuclear winter. While the supervolcano sleeps

The world seems to have entered a period when the seismic environment is becoming more unstable and earthquakes are occurring with increasing frequency. More than 140 major earthquakes have occurred in the world over the past 10 days

At the beginning of the 20th century, the German archaeologist Robert Koldewey, who had a chance to excavate Babylon, found there the "captive" statues of the kings of Mari

Climatologists announced that the level of the oceans is increasing at such a rapid rate that soon some cities may be under water

According to the resource Spiegel, experts near Tubingen (Germany) found traces of an incredibly large tsunami, apparently caused by a meteorite. The presence of a twenty-centimeter limestone layer indicates a disaster

Scientists from Columbia University in the USA found that an abnormally high level of precipitation led to the "great famine" of 1315-1317 in Europe

200 million years ago, a giant tsunami caused by the fall of a meteorite destroyed three quarters of all life on the planet. The wave was too huge to be generated by a volcanic eruption or earthquake

The flood is like God's punishment, described in more than 200 religious documents, of almost all religious movements. One way or another, the flood is known to every nation and there is almost always a legend about the survivors who gave life to the future generation