Every morning we wake up brings us closer and closer to a catastrophic disaster that
could spell doomsday for the entire human race.
While we're enjoy our cup of coffee, a mega earthquake could shake things
up under our feet.
Or while we're eating our cereal, a super volcano is
slowly waking up to spread Armageddon the moment we clock into the office.
There are so many nightmare scenarios that have a high possibility of happening within
the next three or five decades and there is nothing that we can do to prevent it because
nature runs on its own schedule.
So in this video, we are counting down to 5 mega disasters that can potentially happen
tomorrow!
Every year, hundreds upon hundreds of acres are burned down by forest fires that seem
to be getting worse overtime.
In fact, in a study made by the US Geological Survey and Forest Service, they reported that
the acreage burned by wildfires has skyrocketed to 6.4 million since 1999, drastically tripling
from an annual 2.2 million acres.
If this number keeps on going up, experts predict that a large portion of the country
will be up in flames in the very near future.
Also, according to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences or SEAS, wildfire seasons
in the United States will be twice as smoky and will last longer by three weeks, unforgivably
burning and scorching massive portions of the West each year.
Additionally, SEAS points out that the increase in the Earth’s temperature due to climate
change has greatly contributed to the worsening situation of annual wildfires.
To add more salt to the wound, campaigns to stop forest fires like “Smokey the Bear”
have only exacerbated the problem because it prevents the natural cycle of brush fires
that clears out the forest underbrush.
Today, with predictions of 30,000 to 50,000 annual wildfires, the US might eventually
end up experiencing its literal version of Hell on Earth.
In 2012 Hurricane Sandy was considered by many experts as one of the most devastating
freak storms to ever hit the country in 700 years; but with the rising sea levels along
the East Coast of the US, we may not even need a storm like Sandy or Katrina to see
major cities get swallowed up by water.
John Boon, Professor Emeritus of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science outlined a study
and claimed that a significant change in sea level has been occurring since 1987 spanning
the coastlines of Key West, Florida to Newfoundland, Canada.
What is concerning about the study is that is shows that sea levels are increasing at
about 0.3 millimetre s annually.
Even more troubling is a study by the US Geological Survey claims that water levels in the East
Coast of the country is rising three to four times faster than anywhere else in the globe,
making plenty of the coastal areas in the northeast at high risk because of property values.
The sea levels in New York city alone is expected to rise by 31 inches in 2050, submerging 25
percent of the city as well as rendering 97 percent of its power plants utterly useless.
With about 800,000 people living in high-risk flood zones, former New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg proposed to create a flood system in 2013 worth $20 billion in order to save
the sinking city.
Unfortunately, the project was never put into action and is now collecting dust in a dark
corner somewhere.
When Japan's entire land mass shifted during the Tohoku earthquake in 2011,
it also stirred 20 of the country’s 110 volcanoes awake after
increased seismic activities in their areas were recorded.
Even more unnerving is the fact that any one of these volcanoes may erupt any day according
to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
No stranger to tremors, Japan has suffered a sufficient amount of damage from earthquakes
over a thousand years.
However, when we are talking about dormant volcanoes waking up, the whole scenario has
added much more fear into the mix.
In recent studies, calculations show that Japan is always due for a major volcanic eruption
every 38 years and it seems that the country is overdue for one.
Out of the 110 volcanoes dotting the island country, 47 are recorded as active.
Among the 47 active volcanoes is the famed Mt Fuji.
Standing at a magnificent height of over 12,000 feet, it is one of the volcanoes that is most
likely to erupt any time after a report was published by a scientific team from France
and Japan.
The news caused great concern to Japanese citizens as Mt Fuji is located 62 miles from
Tokyo.
Should the volcano decide to erupt tomorrow it would mean that about 750,000 people will
be evacuated from the city as it will most likely be covered in ash.
The likelihood of at least a magnitude 8 earthquake
hitting California in the next few decades was increased by the US Geological
Survey.
Called “The Big One” by many Californians, it is the one earthquake that they say will
reduce the entire state into rubble and the one that everyone in the entire country has
been nervously waiting for.
The US Geological Survey goes even further in their findings saying that a magnitude
8.0 quake or larger has a 7 percent chance of hitting California in the next 30 years.
From their recent findings, the odds of a 6.5 – 7.0 magnitude quake ripping through
the West Coast state has gone up to 30 percent.
Most researchers think that The Big One will most likely originate from the breaking of
the San Andreas Fault.
However, other theories suggest that the mega quake will be triggered by the lesser known
Hayward Fault that sits in close proximity to San Francisco.
Regardless of the origin, experts all agree on one thing: the earthquake will definitely
devastate the entire state of California and neighbouring areas in the West Coast.
Basing their claims through historical-data based projections, the earthquake will be
predicted to cause severe damage to major infrastructure and start full-scale wildfires
due to the amount of dry brush that is common in the state.
It is essentially a race against time as the White House has recently granted $5 million
to a team of experts coming from UC Berkley, Caltech, and the University of Washington
in order to develop an Earthquake Early Warning System that, hopefully, will alert people
a full minute before a tremor hits.
In 2001, two researchers from the University College of London and the University of California Santa Cruz
hypothesized that the imminent
eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands will create the largest and
most destructive tsunami in recorded history.
Published in a co-authored study, Dr Simon Day from the University College of London,
and Dr Steven Ward from UC Santa Cruz, claimed that during the volcano’s last eruption,
a large rupture appeared on its left side which has made the geological structure quite
unstable.
If Cumbre Vieja erupts, the rupture to its side will result in a catastrophic landslide
that will create the tsunami that will, basically wipe out all the islands in the Caribbean
on a scale that can only be compared to the mythical Atlantis.
With gigantic waves that are predicted to travel at 800 miles per hour and grow to at
least 330 feet tall upon first impact with land, the tsunami is believed to hit as far
as Florida within nine hours of its creation.
As the rippling continues to build waves, the monster tsunami is also projected to hit
as far as England.
Dr Day and Dr Ward paints everything as a worst-case scenario since it is impossible
for an entire landmass to fall into the water in one event.
More likely, parcels of land and rock from the volcano will tumble into its nearby waters
peace-meal but nonetheless create destructive waves if not the feared monster tsunami itself.