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Other Disasters

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:13:44 +0000

If you’ve got a prediction to make which doesn’t fit well with the categories above, please make it here. If it warrants a new category, we’ll create it but in any event, you’ll always have a record of your prediction.

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Volcanos

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 20:50:14 +0000

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. Earth’s volcanoes occur because its crust is broken into 17 major, rigid tectonic plates that float on a hotter, softer layer in its mantle. Therefore, on Earth, volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater.... Continue reading: Volcanos

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Weather

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 20:36:42 +0000

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the lowest level of the atmosphere, the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the averaging of atmospheric conditions... Continue reading: Weather

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Earthquakes

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 20:28:22 +0000

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in size from those that are so weak that they cannot be felt to those violent enough to propel objects and people into the air, and wreak... Continue reading: Earthquakes

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Corona Virus

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:03:43 +0000

The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019, and was recognized as a pandemic by the (WHO) on 11 March 2020. As of 22 March, more than 321,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in over... Continue reading: Corona Virus

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Pandemics

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:51:12 +0000

[st_row][st_column][st_text el_title=””] A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan “all” and δῆμος demos “people”) is a disease epidemic that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents, or worldwide. A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of infected people is not a pandemic. Further, flu pandemics generally exclude recurrences of seasonal flu. Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics of diseases such as smallpox and tuberculosis. One of the most... Continue reading: Pandemics

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