A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, heatwave, or landslide). It leads to financial, environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard, also called their resilience.
A vast field of debris, swept out to sea following the Japan earthquake and tsunami, is floating towards the U.S. West Coast, it has emerged.
NASA and the ESA agree the Earth is going into an extended cooling period in the years ahead. Some experts even believe it could thrust the Northern Hemisphere into a mini-Ice Age lasting decades. But the winter of 2011 to 2012 may shape up to be horrendously bad and it has nothing to do with a cooling sun, but the changing geomagnetic field.
An estimated 5 tons to 20 tons of debris sucked into the ocean during Japan’s massive tsunami is due to hit U.S. shores, University of Hawaii scientists say. The wall of water struck in March, so that means the garbage should be here — sometime in 2014.
The Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN) has reported surface deformations exceeding 35mm on the Spanish island of El Hierro, where residents have been alert for a possible volcanic eruption. The number of earthquakes recorded since July 17 on the smallest of The Canary Islands exceeded 9250 on Tuesday morning.
