Category: Natural Disasters
Reservoir-triggered earthquakes.
Scientists have reportedly predicted an earthquake. (via)
Post date: Monday, July 31st, 2006.
Lake Vui.
Volcanic activity has mysteriously changed the color of a South Pacific island lake from blue to bright red. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, May 30th, 2006.
Sonic Detection and Ranging.
Meteorological technique that measures sound waves to predict earthquakes.
Post date: Thursday, March 16th, 2006.
Bronze Age bully.
Archaeologists discover that a massive Mt. Vesuvius eruption buried towns and villages 2000 years before Pompeii.
Post date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2006.
Tambora.
Scientists have found the remains of a civilization lost to the biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
Post date: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006.
Ivus.
Two frozen tsunamis crash into Alaskan shoreline. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
Dead zone.
Scientists dive into the Indian Ocean epicenter of last year’s tsunami and find it completely devoid of life.
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
Second coming?
The number ‘2′ appeared in the eye of Hurricane Wilma.
Post date: Monday, October 31st, 2005.
Sin city.
Bankrupt New Orleans may have to start releasing prisoners.
Post date: Friday, October 7th, 2005.
His bad.
God officially blamed for a 2003 ferry disaster. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
Project Stormfury.
Insight into a failed federal government research program aimed at weakening hurricanes through cloud seeding.
Post date: Thursday, September 22nd, 2005.
Old Orleans.
Louisiana Superdome will have to be torn down due to the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2005.
The gods must be crazy.
Hurricane Katrina causing massive shortages of beer and cigarettes in affected areas.
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
Rock still lives.
Hard Rock Cafe’s 112-foot electric guitar sign survives 7 hours of 100-mph hurricane-force winds in Biloxi. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Foreshadowing.
‘How to throw the best hurricane party (when it’s safe to do so)’. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Social web.
Craigslist Lost & Found for New Orleans being used to track lost family and friends displaced by Hurricane Katrina. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Martial law.
Prisoners from the Orleans Parish Prison are staged on the highway as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover the streets.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Dyn-O-mite!
Can a Florida businessman’s environmental product really reduce the most powerful hurricanes to green jelly?
Post date: Thursday, June 2nd, 2005.
New York City?
Hunkering down for this year’s hurricane season in, you guessed it, the Big Apple.
Post date: Wednesday, June 1st, 2005.
Recognize.
Truly a day to be very aware of Flash Flood Safety Awareness Day.
Post date: Wednesday, May 11th, 2005.
Not good.
Understanding the quake that caused the Tsunami of 2004: “The magnitude 9.3 earthquake has shortened the day by fractions of a second, shifted the North Pole by an inch, and made the planet less fat around the middle.”
Post date: Tuesday, April 26th, 2005.
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