Why Americans aren’t prepared for the next mega-disaster

Posted on July 15, 2010 by admin

(by Melanie D.G. Kaplan) I have multiple flashlights, a battery-operated radio, several bags of grains and 20 pounds of dog food. But if Washington faces the kind of disaster that Irwin Redlener says will inevitably happen—in some U.S. city—and I have to escape from town or seal myself in my rowhouse for any period of time, my future looks grim.

I’m not alone. According to Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Americans are grossly unprepared for the next disaster….read more from SmartPlanet

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Scientists know it as the deadliest volcano on Earth. You know it…as Yellowstone

Posted on July 11, 2010 by admin

Supervolcano is a television docufiction film that was first aired in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2005, and released by the BBC on 10 April 2005 on the Discovery Channel. It is centered on the speculated and potential eruption of the volcanic caldera of Yellowstone National Park…..more info from the BBC

Part 1 of the awesome BBC Supervolcano docu-drama. For all the Documentary fans out there.


Part 2 of the awesome BBC Supervolcano docu-drama. For all the Documentary fans out there.


Supervolcano part 2 2/6 below deals with how volcanic ash effects jet engines.


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Yellowstone is overdue. Yellowstone has had an unusually high frequency of earth quakes. Yellowstone’s elevation has dramatically increased over the last 3 years.

“I am advising all State officials around Yellowstone National Park for a potential State of Emergency. In the last week over 300 earthquakes have been observed by the USGS. We have a 3D view on the movement of magma rising underground. We have all of the pre warning signs of a major eruption from a super volcano. – I want everyone to leave Yellowstone National Park and for 200 miles around the volcano caldera.” – Posted on YouTube January 1, 2009 by geologist Christopher C. Sanders.

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