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What is the most dangerous natural disaster?

What is the most dangerous natural disaster?

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Woldog said:
Earthquakes and Tsunamis are essentially the same thing Tsunamis can only happen if there is an earthquake or if your mum jumps in the ocean.
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Tsunamis do not only happen from earthquakes.
 
rj144 said:
Tsunamis do not only happen from earthquakes.
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underwater landslide, usually caused by an earthquake, volcanic eruption. usually caused by an earth quake.
 
Woldog said:
I also like to split hairs for no reason.
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No hairs split. You said clearly they can only happen through earthquakes. You do realize one of the tallest tsunamis ever measured was not caused by an earthquake?
 
Earthquake should be #1. In right location, a deadly one can also trigger tsunami and volcano eruption. Bam! 3 pieces soda
 
If yellowstone blows humanity is getting set back 200+ years and 99% of us will be dead within 3 years after.
 
rj144 said:
No hairs split. You said clearly they can only happen through earthquakes. You do realize one of the tallest tsunamis ever measured was not caused by an earthquake?
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The one in alaska in an enclosed area caused by a huge rock falling into the water? that Tsunami?
 
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Volcanoes. There were some epic eruptions in the past which wiped out over 90% of life on Earth.

 
Woldog said:
The one in alaska in an enclosed area caused by a huge rock falling into the water? that Tsunami?
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https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf

"Geological evidence suggests that during a future eruption, Cumbre Vieja Volcano on the Island of La Palma may experience a catastrophic flank collapse. For a 500 km3 slide block running westward 60 km down the offshore slope at 100 m/s, our computer models predict that tsunami waves 10 to 25 m high will be felt at transoceanic distances spanning azimuths that target most of the Atlantic basin."

And, they are called megatsunamis.
 
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rj144 said:
https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf

"Geological evidence suggests that during a future eruption, Cumbre Vieja Volcano on the Island of La Palma may experience a catastrophic flank collapse. For a 500 km3 slide block running westward 60 km down the offshore slope at 100 m/s, our computer models predict that tsunami waves 10 to 25 m high will be felt at transoceanic distances spanning azimuths that target most of the Atlantic basin."

And, they are called megatsunamis.
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They are also expected to only do damage locally, and be a regular tsunami when they make landfall similar to the Canary Islands ones.
 
Woldog said:
They are also expected to only do damage locally, and be a regular tsunami when they make landfall similar to the Canary Islands ones.
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Pretty much, the idea they'll hit the US coast at giant size was really only talked up by a small number of people in order to appeal to the media, in reality they'd have dissipated down to a relatively small size by then. The famous Alaskan landslide(well to geographers anyway, its always the case study for this kind of thing) from the 50's shows you how quickly wave size decerases even in a small lake...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay,_Alaska_earthquake_and_megatsunami

What made the Indian Ocean quake so deadly and far reaching was that you had a massive area of sea floor jacked up, almost 1000 miles along the fault.
 
Anything that will take out sanitation and ruins the water supply.
 
I think you would be least likely to survive a tsunami. Watch some of the videos on YouTube of the big ones. It’s pretty astounding.

Mimas far as what kills the most, it’s not a contest. Remember the tsunami back in 2004 in Indonesia? It killed like a quarter of a million people. Then there was the one in Japan 8-9 years ago that killed almost 20,000 people.
 
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