Category: Natural Disasters

The 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Oklahoma on 09/03/16 has again drawn attention to the connection between earthquakes and oil production by way of fracking. To be specific, …

Obama has for the most part stayed away from the subject of global warming during his campaign for re-election. The President has only infrequently broached the subject on the …

The Tōhoku earthquake was bad, the tsunami was a disaster. Fukushima was a non-event.

Nearly every year for about the last 4 or 5, we’ve spent a marvelous week at Mirlo Beach at a cottage called the Salty Dawg.  Two years ago, we …

That from the chief meteorologist on our local ABC affiliate last night as he struggled to reconcile lower wind reports coming out of hurricane hunter aircraft and higher wind …

Wizbang blogger emeritus Rob Port uploaded over four hundred pictures of the devastating flooding in Minot, North Dakota.

I heard this on Neil Boortz' show on the way to lunch moments ago, an audio Neil described as the most compelling thing he's ever heard. It is certainly the …

That from a mother of one of the Fukushima nuclear plant workers: The so-called Fukushima 50, the team of brave plant workers struggling to prevent a meltdown to four …

American Digest's Gerard Vanderleun has found a tsunami video I'd not seen before and it's devastating in its depiction of the destruction that ensued. Vanderleun's accompanying comments are dead …

The absence of the plant's power from the grid is far more likely to result in death or serious illness and injury than the radiological and other effects of …