Mother Nature Fights back...
In the wake of the tsunami which devistated anything in the Indian Ocean and ended the lives of up to 52,000 people comes the latest update from NASA which now gives the astroid know as 2004 MN4 a 1-in-37 chance (probability of 2.7%) of hitting Earth on April 13, 2029. Not great odds if you happen to live on Earth, but I'm going to bet that we have a viable solution buy 2029. Or at least I'm hoping for one, because at 59, I'll be too old to change my lifestyle to meet the potential change an astroid hitting the Earth would cause.
Read the article about the tsunami here.
I think this tsunami must be ranked as the worst natual disaster of the past 100 years. I can't think of any other incident where so many perished. To boot, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that disease in the aftermath could double the current death toll. I watched some of the videos shown on TV was wasn't really impressed by the "walls of water." I was expecting a 50 foot wave, but then realized tsunamis, many times, are just floods of white water, kind of like after a wave breaks and is heading to shore, except these come with much greater force. This is tradegy at it's best, I wish all who are involved the best of luck in getting back to normalcy.
Read the article about the tsunami here.
I think this tsunami must be ranked as the worst natual disaster of the past 100 years. I can't think of any other incident where so many perished. To boot, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that disease in the aftermath could double the current death toll. I watched some of the videos shown on TV was wasn't really impressed by the "walls of water." I was expecting a 50 foot wave, but then realized tsunamis, many times, are just floods of white water, kind of like after a wave breaks and is heading to shore, except these come with much greater force. This is tradegy at it's best, I wish all who are involved the best of luck in getting back to normalcy.
posted by Tony Rocha at
12/27/2004
2 Comments:
the worst natual disaster of the past 100 years??????? you gotta be kiddin me.they made ado and you believed them.
Ok, maybe not the worst, but it was one of the top ten worst earthquakes recorded in history and the single worst tsunami recorded ever, when measuring lives lost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake
I do believe the ado was appropriate and based on the info gathered well after the fact, it seemed correct.
But if you have an opinion as to which natural disaster in the past 100 years was the worst, please do share.
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