Why are there so many hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes latley?

Question

I know these things happen, but it seems like within this year....there is always anther tragedy involving storms and such.

Is it due to global warming, or just a bad year of storms.

Answer 1

the world is gonna end soon... every thing in the bible is happening... god wants use to know its coming!

Answer 2

It is not from global warming. It is part of a normal cycle of weather that occurs during this time of year. Caused by cold air and warm air that clashes.

Answer 3

It is because of global warming. The earth is heating up so much that they are out of control.

Answer 4

Hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes are not generated like clockwork.  Therefore, it will seem sparse or congested for each type of event and in some years it is likely the congestion (or sparseness) will occur in all three events.  Hurricanes originate when ocean surface temperatures are unusually high (el neno effect) and tornadoes occur as giant masses of cold and warm air collide.  Earthquakes are more like clockwise as tectonic plate movements build up stresses in the earth's crust until a trigger point is reached.  The clock can take hundreds or thousands of years for many events.  Distribution of the events is likely random over a long period of time.  Perhaps better (round the clock) global news coverage ensures that we are aware of each and every major event.  More societies are today open to sharing their news.  Weather satellites and seismic stations pin point the areas of interest to 'outsiders.'

Answer 5

I personally am really sick of the "warm air + cold air = tornado" thing. It's just not the way it really works. Rising unstable air will first create a cell and an updraft, the latter of which can be caused to rotate by large amounts of horizontal shear. That's what creates a tornado.

Global warming as we know it does not make any substantial change to the formation of tornadoes. One can bring out charts to show you the rising number of tornadoes, but what does that prove other than the fact that we were not always able to record as many of the tornadoes as we are today?

This year is an extraordinarily bad year so far, but mostly because the North Indian Ocean season is in a stage where the intensity of storms is peaking and because we are having a bad year in terms of tornadoes. Throw a powerful earthquake in there and you have a very bizarre sequence of disasters. Of course, events far more similar to the optimal [for destruction] nightmarish local apocalypse have happened than any of these combined. Imagine the devastation associated with the 1970 Bhola cyclone, or the great river floods of China, in which hundreds of thousands, even millions of dead bodies floated out to sea.

So these things happen. And they sometimes happen together.

(For a good example of this, 2004 had the most recorded tornadoes ever, plus one of the most intense and deadly earthquakes of all time, plus a whole boatload of deadly and damaging tropical cyclones all across the world).