Mega Disasters - Wikipedia
Mega Disasters is an American documentary television series that originally aired from May 23, 2006, to July 2008 on History Channel. Produced by Creative Differences, the program explores potential catastrophic threats to individual cities, countries, and the entire globe.
13 of the biggest natural disasters in history | Live Science
2023年3月24日 — Here are 13 of some of the largest, deadly and costly natural disasters throughout modern history. 1900 Great Galveston Storm Floating wreckage near Texas City after the Galveston disaster.
Greenland: A landslide triggered a mega-tsunami. Then came ...
2024年9月13日 — It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland last September. Then came something inexplicable: a mysterious vibration...
Learning from Megadisasters: A Decade of Lessons from the ...
2021年3月11日 — Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, a mega-disaster that marked Japan and the world with its unprecedented scale of destruction.
The top 10 global weather and climate change events of 2021
2022年1月11日 — Global weather mega-disasters costing at least $20 billion (adjusted to 2021 dollars) from 1980-2021, as of January 2022. Data for the U.S. is from NOAA; data for the rest of the world is from the international disaster database, EMDAT.
What is the ARkStorm? California's worst nightmare, potentially
2024年2月8日 — California's worst nightmare, potentially. Climate change is upping the odds that a disastrous flood with up to 10 feet of water might actually happen in California. The ARkStorm may not be real...
The Coming California Megastorm - The New York Times
2022年8月12日 — The infrastructure design standards, hazard maps and disaster response plans that protected California from flooding in the past might soon be out of date.
Devastating quakes are priming the Himalaya for a mega-disaster
2019年1月17日 — Devastating quakes are priming the Himalaya for a mega-disaster. Moderate earthquakes aren’t releasing enough stress along the region’s faults. They’re actually making it worse. The sun ...
California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe
2013年1月1日 — California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe. A 43-day storm that began in December 1861 put central and southern California underwater for up to six months, and it could happen...
Natural Disasters - Our World in Data
Disasters – from earthquakes and storms to floods and droughts – kill approximately 40,000 to 50,000 people per year. This is the average over the last few decades. While that’s a relatively small fraction of all deaths globally , disasters can have …