I have some concerns about moving to Florida, because of all of the natural disasters that’s been going on lately..

Do you think Florida can be hit by a tsunami or a earthquake or any other major natural disasters?

I am aware of the hurricanes, but usually they give you a head-sup on those. I am talking about disaster that people can’t "predict" hitting a certain area 100% and that will just hit without no time of warning that could help people escape?!

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What happens when government fails to act?

What has happened when they have helped?

And how different natural disasters would be if the government did help more?

Thanks!!

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in the IPCC WG II report, Chapter 7, supplementary material?

Is it more appropriate to link rise in natural disaster spending to coastal population trends?

Why does the graph they do include only look at a limited number of years from 1970 to 2005?

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/001169this_is_just_embaras.html
@ dana1981

So you DO think its appropriate for a panel that is commissioned to study climate change to link the cost of a supossedly GLOBAL trend in temperature rise to US spending on Natural disasters over a cherry picked time period?

Do you honestly think you can show a credible scientific link that shows that a rise in GLOBAL temperatures are responsible for US spending on disasters?

Don’t you see the poor science behind this graph?

Doesn’t it bother you that a panel that is supposed to review scientific literature and report on the truth would make such an obvious agenda driven graph?

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well, im 15, and recently undergoing a change of lifestyle.
basically im trying to make myself a better person.
anyway, lately the only thing ive been really thinking about is death and natural disasters.

today wasnt a major quake for my city, atleast in my house it was as if 10 heavy truckes rolled by.
anyway, we’re somewhat close to L.A and would like to know how bad earthquakes would affect us?

all i can do now, is pray.

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I’m researching on natural disasters for my thesis and would like to know what people experience and what they are feeling. It would be best to get first hand experiences, but if you know of someone who has been in a disaster, i am still interested in that too.
Also, is there a forum or website that has people discussing their first hand experiences with natural disasters?
Thanks

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As we have seen, other parts of Canada also experience natural disasters? Is there a city or region in Canada that you feel is unsafe? Explain your answer.

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Based on the natural disasters that occur in Florida and in California which of the two
states would you prefer to make your permanent home?

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….affected by one or more of, tornadoes, hurricanes, or earthquakes??

I always dreamed about crossing the pond from Britain later on in life long term, but being phobic of natural disasters, it seems like such a scary place!

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I have to do a Science project on Natural Disasters over Christmas Break (ugh) and need to know the impact that earthquakes have on landforms. Also the impact earthquakes have on weather/climate if you can.

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Sometimes I think/remember and pray for individual people whose stories are only briefly mentioned in the midst of huge natural and not-so-natural disasters.

For example: the big Northridge Earthquake from 15 years ago — one of the first reports of a death was a woman who had tripped over something rushing to get her baby out of a crib and broke her neck. I heard nothing else about it because the apartment building collapse over-took the news. I still think of her when earthquakes happen and wonder what has become of that little one.

The picture of the guy who jumped out of one of the towers on 9-11 and he just went for it — head first (albeit a men’s mag, Details perhaps, wrote an article about "who was he?") I think of him and his family.

The reports about one lady breastfeeding many babies in the Superdome after Katrina because there was no formula or clean water. Or the reports that people were being hurt and killed.

I am just wondering, do you all feel for the "small people in big disasters" and do those stories stay with you? If you’re religious, do you find yourself randomly adding these folks to your prayers?

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i heard on the news that a LOT of little earthquakes have been happening in the desert in california(though i know everyday we have little earthquakes here that we dont feel) and that were expecting a huge earthquake in hours or days.. is it true?
does anyone have more info on it? i live in orange county in southern california and if scared people say that it could hit in the ocean and we would have a tsunami im considering moving because i have a major fear of natural disasters../:

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I am talking about in the distant future if we have the ability.

Would be wonderful if we have the power to get rid of natural disasters? In other words, to not be in the mercy of nature’s disasters.

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I have been having these dreams about natural disasters (tidle waves and two tornadoes towering up to the sky). People drowing and I am trying to help people. Has anyone else had these kind of dreams, particulaly people in Bexhill on sea?
ie; tornadoes, tidle waves, people floating up to the sky, Gods face in the sky, pulling people up from the water etc

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The insurance companies still call natural disasters "acts of God"…but if one killed a nation’s leader, would the public believe it as a true "act of God"?

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A group of four prisoners were held captive by the enemy and each prisoner was to be shot each day through the week. As natural disasters were common in this specific part of the world, the group of prisoners decided to make up a plan of distracting the guards. Before each prisoner would be shot, they would shout out a natural disaster, which would cause chaos and distract everyone to give enough time for each prisoner to escape. As three days passed the first three prisoners escaped by shouting out their chosen natural disasters and running away, however the final prisoner shouted out a disaster and was shot dead on the spot.

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natural disasters like earthquake…floods…etc…..if not un then maybe some other organization..!

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Ok, I don’t know if what I’m thinking of is a show or a movie, I don’t know what genre it is, or what the movie/show is really about. All I remember of it is one part.

In that part, these people (I want to say it was 3 people) were looking at old photographs of times throughout history where natural disasters and catastrophes occurred (like pictures of the Titanic before it set sail and pictures of places like the Great San Fransisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906) and they notice that the SAME guy is in a lot of the photos even though some of the photos are hundreds of years apart. Later on in the movie I THINK that they find out that in the future there is a company that lets you time travel back in time to witness historical events first-hand.

The memory of this movie just popped in my head about a month ago and it’s been driving me crazy!! Does anyone know that this movie might be??

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I need websites that have information and pictures on natural disasters that happened from December 2006 until basically today January 18,2006. The Natural Disasters can be floods, tsunamis,earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. Thank you and if you have no good sugestions, or ae jsut fooling atound dont even bother to answer the question.

Thank you

Katerin ♥

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umm, maybe you’ve seen but i’m doing a report on natural disasters and i need your opinion! tell me what you think the worst natural disaster is and why! oh, and thaanks =]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091403343_2.html

http://atheists.org/blog/2009/09/17/obama-cautious-about-keeping-promises

Candidate Barack Obama drew little attention during last year’s presidential campaign when he ventured into the thorny territory of church and state.

While President George W. Bush had expanded government contracts to faith-based groups, Obama promised to end that arrangement if the groups proselytized to the needy they served, or hired only members of that faith.

Today, that campaign pledge — along with other complex questions of religion and government — are posing something of a dilemma for President Obama, as he tries to balance increasing pressure from the left to renounce Bush-era policies against a desire to find common ground on social issues.

Civil liberties advocates have pressed Obama to keep the promise he made in July 2008 when he told an audience in Zanesville, Ohio: “If you get a federal grant, you can’t use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help and you can’t discriminate against them — or against the people you hire — on the basis of their religion.”

But here’s the important part:

Steven T. McFarland, vice president and chief legal officer at World Vision, which supports aid efforts in 100 countries, said needy people around the world will lose if the Obama Justice Department changes course. The Christian charity helps victims of earthquakes, famine and other natural disasters, provides food and support to refugees and abandoned children, and cares for people suffering from HIV-AIDS across three continents.

Richard Stearns, president of World Vision’s American operations, sits on a presidential advisory panel, and has emphasized the importance of hiring to World Vision’s identity with members of the administration’s faith-based office, the charity said. The Bellevue, Wash.-based group has been using religion as a factor in hiring for years.

Well, what should happen?

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It comes out in 2009, about this kid who wrote a page of numbers, and they turned out to be the dates of natural disasters. It has Nicholas Cage in it. Whats it called?!

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Mosques that are still standing after natural disasters, such as earthquakes and tsunamis. I think it shows the power of God right in front of our eyes. Please share your views but without any disrespectful or immature comments. Thankyou.
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More here:
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For those of you who say that the mosques are built of strong materials, there was a mosque made of wood and that also survived.
WalaikumSalaam Fez, there is no architecture section! Or if there is, I can’t find it! I posted this question in the photography section instead.

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when according to the U.S. Geological Survey, earthquakes have remained constant in their frequency?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/topics/increase_in_earthquakes.php

"We continue to be asked by many people throughout the world if earthquakes are on the increase. Although it may seem that we are having more earthquakes, earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have remained fairly constant.

A partial explanation may lie in the fact that in the last twenty years, we have definitely had an increase in the number of earthquakes we have been able to locate each year. This is because of the tremendous increase in the number of seismograph stations in the world and the many improvements in global communications. In 1931, there were about 350 stations operating in the world; today, there are more than 8,000 stations and the data now comes in rapidly from these stations by electronic mail, internet and satellite. This increase in the number of stations and the more timely receipt of data has allowed us and other seismological centers to locate earthquakes more rapidly and to locate many small earthquakes which were undetected in earlier years. The NEIC now locates about 20,000 earthquakes each year or approximately 50 per day. Also, because of the improvements in communications and the increased interest in the environment and natural disasters, the public now learns about more earthquakes.

According to long-term records (since about 1900), we expect about 17 major earthquakes (7.0 – 7.9) and one great earthquake (8.0 or above) in any given year."

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Can you give me an article on Natural Disasters. Please make it current.
This is the current events section. I want current events.

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Is it really that hard to believe? Me and my mother have this awkward "gift" and we often dream of a certain natural disaster that many times ends up happening. For example, exactly 7 days before the big tsunami in 2004 I dreamed of a tsunami and even told my parents and one week later it shows up in the news.

Studies show that many animals can sense an earthquake or other natural disasters days before they happen. Could it be that some humans might also have this sensitivity and can only demonstrate it through their subconscious?

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natural disasters like earthquake…floods…etc…..if not un then maybe some other organization..!

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And which one do you think you’d be able
to escape?

I’m always saddened, and even amazed, that
people die because of weather, or other natural
disasters. In my mind, I imagine that I would
be able to escape. Of course, I’m probably
mistaken.

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If we had cars that plugged into the walls because they ran on batteries, we wouldn’t have to buy gas anymore, but our electric bills would go up. We’d have to start at the big boys, the power companies. We have to come up with a clean, abundant, and reliable source of energy for these major power companies to use. We must stop using fossil fuels before it’s too late. We are sucking the earth dry of its intestines, causing the skin to move in pain. Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Hurricanes, and all other natural disasters will increase as we keep polluting our air and draining the earth of its resources. Lets not be the virus on this planet, but the flavor of the earth.

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Where were you and what happened?By natural disasters I mean hurricanes, tornadoes, avalanches, floods, landslides,earthquakes,etc.
What was it like and how did you survive.Share your story.

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personally, i’m a little worried about all these natural disasters lately. the hurricane, the eathquakes, the floods, the droughts, the mine tragedies around the world. whats going on out there?

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