Natural disasters coimng fast and furious??

Question

Is it just me, of has there been many more natural disasters recently than ever before?? I always hear or read about natural disasters on the news these days--- cyclones in Myanmar, earthquakes in China, heat waves and cold snaps out of season, flooding and hurricanes... it seems like the past few years the natural disasters have been happening more and more frequently, and with increasing ferocity....

What are your theories as to why natural disasters have been so prevalent and happening with such force?

AND do you agree with countries denying help and aid, and what do you think about countries turning offers of help and aid into political issues??

Answer 1

I'm curious as to what will happen when the hurricanes start coming. All the earthwakes, cyclones, tornadoes, flooding... we won't have a calm hurricane season with all of that crazy weather happening. It's bound to get worse before it gets better.

Answer 2

its closer till the time of the end...

Answer 3

Global Climate Change is responsible for almost all of them with exception of earthquakes which tend to occur in cycles (far east, Europe/India, america's, Far east)

No country is denying aid to Myanamar (Bhurma) its just that Myanamar is refusing to accept it..

Part of the problem is that there are too many people on the planet (over populated hence food shortages) using too much oil and gas, hence fuel prices and global warming

Answer 4

Illinois had a very teeny natural disaster from an moderate earthquake that had its epicenter 230 miles away from the New Madrid fault...in an area of east Central Illinois called the Wabash Valley Seismic zone. This happened over a month ago.

But if a earthquake of magnitude 8.5 strikes the New Madrid fault and shakes the whole Midwest into destruction this year (I hope this does not happen), this would be the apex of these recent natural disasters we are facing this year.......

As for that thing in Burma.....

The military junta's blocking of foreign aid, including foreign aid from the United States, will only lead to about 20,000 more deaths in 2 weeks.

The big quake in China shows what could happen if the New Madrid fault causes such a big quake. That means the whole Midwest, especially the southern Midwest and along the New Madrid fault line, needs to learn earthquake preparedness right now before the next big quake happens......

As for theory of natural disasters coming so fast.....

Those who believe global warming is causing them are about 62 percent right. But earthquakes are not caused by global warming.....but I am afraid that more heat can mean earthquake-related volcanic eruptions like what happened in Chile can be commonplace. Heat is needed for volcanic eruptions to worsen.

Answer 5

Not at all! Nature's pace of such happenings is the same. What is happening is, the number of ways of news reporting has increased enormously and the time to bring it to the eyes of the target viewers has been brought down to seconds. So you are suffused with all this information and led to believe that all bad things are happening now.

The story is same for crime reporting too.

To sum up, it is the 'information revolution' you have to thank (or blame).