 erupted with a spectacular display of lightning, smoke and flowing lava. Located on the southern island of Kyushu (key-oo-shoe), the 3600-foot high volcano belched forth a column of ash that rose more than 16,000 feet … which was about the same size of the ash plume spewed during the last eruption in 2013. And how did volcanic lightning manage to develop inside that massive plume? Actually scientists have debated if the lightning is caused by ice particles forming in the plumes or whether it’s caused by the electrostatic discharge of the ash itself. There’s evidence that both mechanisms can create different types of lightning inside erupting volcanoes. As opposed to lightning that forms in thunderclouds, volcanic lightning often travels upwards or sideways through an ash cloud. Thankfully, no casualties were reported due to the eruption … or the lightning.
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! From the greatest and biggest avalanche to the unbelievable display of Volcanic Lightning, these are 12 WICKED Displays of Mother Nature !
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Tangshan Earthquake 1976
Tangshan was an industrial city in the People’s Republic of China. It was also the epicenter of a magnitude-8 earthquake in 1976. The densely populated city numbered about one million residents before the devastating quake. The death toll was estimated at over 240,000 people, or close to a quarter of the city’s population.
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China Central Floods — Following years of sustained drought conditions, China was bombarded by heavy rainfall in 1931 … and it never seemed to stop. The Yangtze River burst its banks and flooded several areas. That was followed by the Yellow River and the Huai River both overflowing. The devastating results included nearly 4 million people dead from drowning, disease, and starvation. More than a quarter of China’s population at the time — or over 51 million people were affected by the Central China Floods.
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1918 Flu Pandemic
Striking in three waves, the Influenza Pandemic killed more people than died in World War 1. The origins of the disease still aren’t clear … but one theory suggests the first wave in 1918 can be traced to Haskell County, Kansas in the US. When soldiers on leave from Camp Funston — now known as Fort Riley — visited relatives in Haskell, they may have contracted the infectious disease and unknowingly carried it with them back to the base. As the soldiers moved on to other bases, the disease seemed to follow their movements. Other theories suggest the disease was first observed in Europe and parts of Asia. Whatever its true origins, it didn’t take long for the disease to spread all around the world, infecting an estimated 500 million people. The second wave was the deadliest, known to kill victims within two days after symptoms appeared. The third and final wave hit in the spring of 1919 … by summer of that year, the virus had seemingly run its course, having killed up to 50 million victims. It was also known as the Spanish Flu … due to Spain’s neutrality in World War 1, newspapers there were not censored from reporting stories about the flu … that gave the false impression that Spain was especially hit hard by the disease.
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Toba Super-eruption — Around 75,000 years ago there was a supervolcanic eruption at the site of present-day Lake Toba, located in Sumatra, Indonesia. The Toba Catastrophe Theory holds that the event triggered a global volcanic winter that lasted up to a decade … and may also have triggered a cooling episode that lasted 1,000 years. Volcanic winter is caused by volcanic ash that blocks the sun and the Toba event may have caused average global surface temperatures to drop up to 5 degrees Celsius. That extreme alteration of environment may have produced a global ecological disaster that destroyed food sources of humans, resulting in a drastic reduction of population … possibly whittling the human race down to no more than 10,000 mating pairs … and some sources claim only 40 such pairs were left at one point. There is evidence suggesting today’s humans are descendants of a small population of up to 10,000 mating pairs that existed around 70,000 years ago … which would coincide with the Toba Super-eruption. Do you think the human race was down to around 20,000 members at one point … and does that say a lot about people today? Let us know in the comments!
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To paraphrase an old saying, never wake a sleeping volcano … and this one woke up with a vengeance. After laying dormant the past three years, Japan’s Mount Sakurajima (sak-or-a-jeema) erupted with a spectacular display of lightning, smoke and flowing lava. Located on the southern island of Kyushu (key-oo-shoe), the 3600-foot high volcano belched forth a column of ash that rose more than 16,000 feet … which was about the same size of the ash plume spewed during the last eruption in 2013. And how did volcanic lightning manage to develop inside that massive plume? Actually scientists have debated if the lightning is caused by ice particles forming in the plumes or whether it’s caused by the electrostatic discharge of the ash itself. There’s evidence that both mechanisms can create different types of lightning inside erupting volcanoes. As opposed to lightning that forms in thunderclouds, volcanic lightning often travels upwards or sideways through an ash cloud. Thankfully, no casualties were reported due to the eruption … or the lightning.
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