History’s WORST Natural Disasters

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2. @ 8:40 Simon youre excluding us minorities who dont use kilometers

3. What would be the effects if those same disasters hit on the same scale today? Of course, there is electronic communication to give warning and summon help.
   But what if those giant volcanoes went off today in the same places? The waves that would follow. How would the world do today if the Lisbon earthquake hit on the same scale?

   There was an earthquake along the Mississippi river in 1811/12. The river actually ran backwards at one point because of the upheaval of the land and changed the course of the river.
   But this was 1811, not that many settlements, at least not Indian settlements in that area. What would happen today?

4. Anyone else confused by all the info channels with bald men with glasses, multiple channels from the same bald men with glasses. So many info channels with bald men with glasses.

5. Krakatoa only erupts once in a Blue Moon 😅🌋

6. Am I the only one who hears the word dysentery. And thinks of Oregon trail.

7. Excellent video dude!!!! But the biggest thing that the world is missing out on….. The Tongan volcano 🌋 of January 2022!!!! That eruption put 60,000 Olympic swimming pools into the atmosphere!!!! Nearly into space!!!
   And since then it’s been raining all over the world!!!
   The metrological society has refused to acknowledge the effect of the Tongan eruption on the planet!!!
   The water was injected into the atmosphere and will continue to return to the planet!!! And thanks to evaporation the water will continue to go back into the atmosphere and then return back to the earth!!!
   This Tongan eruption will affect the planet for the next decade!!!!
   And nobody wants to recognise this problem!!!! Earthquake and volcanic eruptions have a major impact on the planet!!! Along with the SUN 🌞!!!!!
   Global warming is a Ponzi scheme and total BS!!!! Regards Ian 👨‍🎤🇳🇿🥳🍸🍸

8. Now i know why in assassins creed rogue, they showed lisbon getting hit with a major earthquake. I never knew it actually happened in real life.

9. Surprised the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami didnt make the list.

10. Tambora: am i a joke to you??

11. And these disasters pale next to pandemics like the Justiniac Plague, the Black Death, the destruction of Native Americans by Old World diseases, and the 1918 influenza pandemic.

12. Allahu Ahkbar…..

13. I thought The Bottleneck about 80,000 years ago that almost drove the species into extinction was the worst disaster…

14. There are historical accounts that go back to the 500- 600 BC of possibly Krakatoa may had a major eruption around this time before 1815. Accounts from China, Japan, and even as far as Rome referred to a period whereby the sun was blood in the clouds turned grey for days on end and temperatures fell.

15. The Jamestown Flood, Bangledesh Tornado (unless you have a harsh year boundary for the word 'history'), the Peshtigo Fire, and the 1900 Galveston Hurricane deserved some honorable mentions here.

16. The day the sun vanished, I haven't seen it for around a year now, see something bright behind the clouds, but no real proper sun.. Hate it, I love the sun.

17. Seems like the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake deserves a mention. ~8.0 EQ plus a nearby Typhoon that rapidly spread the ensuing fires. 100k+ dead

18. I was expecting the 1815 eruption of Tambora. It was bigger Krakatoa which was rated as a 6. Tambora was rated a 7. The fallout was so bad that the following year was known as the year without a summer. For instance in parts of North America there were snow drifts 20 feet high in June, July and August. It was the most modern volcanic winter.

19. "Candles and fireplaces disturbed by the shockwave…"

    Wait… what? We're just gonna gloss right over that, then?

20. skip the ad after the lisbon earthquake and skip to the next subject. youre welcome

21. What about the volcanic eruption on Mount Tambora in 1815? It unleashed an ash cloud that caused famines across the Northern Hemisphere, and produced what is known as the 'Year without a summer' in 1816. Mary Shelley with friends holidayed in Switzerland in 1816. In the horrible weather, they started writing horror stories to amuse the bored group trapped indoors. The story she invented was Frankenstein. An ancestor of the bicycle was also created by an inventor for travel as so many horses used in travel had starved as no food grew.

    That eruption had profound impacts on food production, lives, culture and society across the planet. We still live with some of its more positive consequences – like the bicycle and Frankenstein.

22. It stands on record that the worst disaster that has ever hit the world was obviously the global flood of Noah

    Just the 8 people and the very young kids of every land animal was saved in the ark as the waters covered the whole earth for over a year and all land animals died.

23. How is Krakatoa on here, but not Tambora?

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