Is it me or have there been a lot of natural disasters in the last couple years?
487435
Yeah, I've also seen all these natural disasters. Even in my country, last year there were about 10 or more floods, and this year one or more. Cause? Global polution, tree cutting.\nSomebody save the earth! plz!
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Yes, I think so.\n\nI have a weather blog at http://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nHowever, when I take off my Weather Hat and put on my Highest Enlightenment Hat, I see other big events intervening in the near future.\n\nThere is a link for where this more mysterious stuff comes from in the first blog entry:\n\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-7dNzZV06cpnGmuKQRUwj0WV6Ig--?cq=1&p=1\n\nSo far as I can see, the government is oblivious, probably in Canada as well.  They are still not picking up on the lesser threats, such as hurricane, flood and drought, even though warned ahead of time by several people (in addition to the video you saw involving G. W. Bush's pre-Katrina conference).  \n\nThe public are still unaware also for the most part.\n\nIt's the horse and water thing...\n\nIt would help if candidates for President were required to pass a test that would establish ability to think.
556258
Here are lots of things that happened.  I don't think they are called current events when they happened thirty years ago though!
87456
No,these times are calm.Not enough excitment.One or two devestating storms every hundred or so yrs.Big deal.Storms are small compared to early in earth's history.
436530
Have you ever heard the expression, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"?  The same idea applies here.\n\nThere are any number of natural disasters that could destroy our way of life (meteor strike, multiple massive volcanic eruptions, a global plague, a nearby supernova), and they are virtually undetectable until immediately before they occur - even if we do detect them, the likelihood of preventing them is only a likelihood, not a certainty.
1149447
Several-New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Finland to name a few.\nOf course there are many that are worse but our country has gone down hill so much in the past few years it is alarming!
204020
I believe an ocean tsunami have been more destructive in Earth's history.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami
13603
Yes, there are. I have experienced several including the Nisqually Earthquake on 2/28/2001 that registered 6.8 and caused a significant amount of damage. \n\nThe site I added below gives more information about the major faults that are located under the water near the city.
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HI,I CAN TELL YOU ONE THING.OUR SWEET LITTLE WORLD HAS ALWAYS HAD PROBLEMS ,BUT ONE THING IS FOR SURE ,WE HAVE NEVER HAD SUCH A FULL COVERAGE OF EVERY EVENT IN OR AROUND THE WORLD.TO GET THE BUSINESS GOING MASS MEDIA SOMETIMES EXAGGERATES.WHAT YOU SEE OR HEAR IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT HAS HAP PEND.AFTER ALL OUR  WORLD HAS EXPERIENCED FAR MORE WORST THINGS IN IT`S  LIFE.
439914
I think I have seen three to four at one time. I just depends on the conditions after a storm.
959298
True.\nFortunally most of them are destroyied by the atmosphere.
715923
1.  Natural disaster...for obvious reasons\n2.  Growth and new industry\n3.  Lack of jobs and mass movement of people to better areas.
203356
I've felt 4 earthquakes in my lifetime but all were less than intensity 4.  Three of those occasions, I was living in a high-rise and I really thought that I just felt dizzy or had vertigo.  It's really not too big a deal here in the Philippines because we get all kinds of natural phenomenon all the time, earthquakes included.  The other one though was pretty strong and strangely enough, my first thought was to put on nice undies because i didn't want the rescuers to find me through the rubble with granny panties. Ha ha ha.  Good thing it didn't get stronger. (the earthquake, I mean)
855265
Maybe if we launch a nuke near where tectonic plates are and cause an earthquake, then a tsunami...That's severe. But if you're talking about everyday activities like watering the flowers, I don't think that can contribute to servere weather such as hurricanes.
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We certainly have had our share of rain.. I've been pumping out my cellar for nearly two months!  Rt 1 was closed last week for flooding. CERT (the community emergency response team) has been called to action twice so far, just to help with flood control. \n\nNo need to worry though, all in all we're doing OK.
227619
I wanted to understand natural disasters like volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods.
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it's always been like that.  It's just that as the world becomes more and more populated..we are informed of the earthquakes/eruptions because of their risk of harm to the people who live around them.  But there is no increase.