Category Archives: Natural disasters

“There shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places.”

God, the Bible, sinkholes, fireball meteors, and snowy March 2013
Natural disasters
April 2, 2013 posted by Thea

God, the Bible, sinkholes, fireball meteors, and snowy March 2013

It’s no wonder that Alexa.com tracks an article titled “Hand of God in Weather” on Weather.com as one of the most popular articles at the moment. What, with snow covering large parts of the U.S. this close to April and unseasonal weather hitting as far as the U.K., people are wondering what’s going on.

There are sinkholes and fireball meteors that have people searching and commenting beneath YouTube videos.

Russia to Complete Asteroid Shield Plan by Yearend
Natural disasters
March 16, 2013 posted by Thea

Russia to Complete Asteroid Shield Plan by Yearend

Russia will complete a plan for a program to protect itself against threats from space by the end of this year. That comes a month after a meteorite entered the Earth’s atmosphere undetected by existing space-monitoring systems and slammed into Russia’s Urals on February 15, accompanied by a massive sonic boom that blew out windows and damaged thousands of buildings around the city of Chelyabinsk, injuring over 1,500.

  • Massive Mosquitoes 20x Normal Size Coming to US
  • Massive Mosquitoes 20x Normal Size Coming to US
  • Massive Mosquitoes 20x Normal Size Coming to US
Natural disasters
March 13, 2013 posted by Thea

Massive Mosquitoes 20x Normal Size Coming to US

The Sunshine State, already home to man-eating sinkholes, invading Burmese pythons, swarming sharks, tropical storms and other disasters, can expect to see an explosion of shaggy-haired gallinippers (Psorophora ciliata), a type of giant mosquito, according to entomologist Phil Kaufman of the University of Florida.

Gallinipper eggs hatch after a rainstorm or flood, and the state saw a big jump in the numbers of gallinippers last summer after Tropical Storm Debby dumped its load on Florida.

Tuna caught near California still have traces of Fukushima radiation
Natural disasters
February 24, 2013 posted by Thea

Tuna caught near California still have traces of Fukushima radiation

Twenty-three months after a tsunami took the Fukushima power plant offline and triggered an international emergency, the effects of the disaster are still being felt thousands of miles apart. This week writer Monte Burke of Forbes draws attention to a new study that shows the lingering damages caused nearly two years ago.

Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About To Blow?
Natural disasters
May 3, 2012 posted by Joseph Candel

Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About To Blow?

Mounting troubles at Japan’s hobbled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant now pose a real threat to human survival. If the area in which Unit 4 is struck by another 7.0 magnitude earthquake, there’s a 70 percent chance that “the entire fuel pool structure will collapse” and massive doses of lethal nuclear radiation will be released into the atmosphere.