Mother nature is protecting everything under her care, but she also
has her way of warning us when we do not take care of her in return.
I almost lost count of how many natural disasters have occurred even
just in my country, how much more when you combine all that happened
around the globe – from floods, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, thunder storms, hurricane and many
others.
This calamities can cause loss of life or damage to properties, and usually leave economic damage in its wake.
Here are some of the evidences of Mother nature’s rage:
#1. Avalanche
Avalanches are typically triggered in a starting zone from a
mechanical failure in the snowpack (slab avalanche) when the forces on
the snow exceed its strength but sometimes only with gradually widening.
An avalanche in Granite Mountain on April 2013
#2. Thunderstorm
Also known as an electrical storm, a lightning storm, thundershower
or simply a storm, is a form of turbulent weather which results from the
rapid upward movement of warm, moist air.
A deluge falls from the core of a thunderstorm near Glasgow in July 2010
#3. Fire Tornado
Also known as fire whirls, fire devils, or even firenados, fire
tornadoes form when high heat and turbulent winds together spur whirling
eddies of air.
A fire tornado blazes near Curtin Springs, Australia in September 2012
#4. Hurricane
It is a tropical cyclone occurring in the North Atlantic Ocean or the
Northeast Pacific Ocean, east of the International Dateline. A wind of
force 12 on the Beaufort scale, above 118 km/h, is also referred to as a
hurricane irrespective of its origin or location.
A driver maneuvers his car along a wet road as a wave crashes against the Malecon in Havana, Cuba in October 2012
#5. Tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact
with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare
cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They come in many shapes and sizes,
but they are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel,
whose narrow end touches the earth and is often encircled by a cloud of
debris and dust.
A tornado heads toward two cars on a country road near Campo, Colorado
#6. Tsunami
Tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a
large volume of a body of water, generally an ocean or a large lake.
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions,
landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances
above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.
Patong beach in Phuket, Thailand, was destroyed by the tsunami on December 2004
#7. Twister
These violent twisters form when the updrafts of air that supply
storms with warm, humid air become a vortex, or high-speed whirlwind.
Funnel clouds become tornadoes once they touch the ground.
A funnel cloud rips through a trailer park near Cheyenne, Wyoming
#8. Volcano Lightning
Storms over volcanoes contain the same ingredients as storms over
your hometown—water droplets, ice, and occasionally hail. The
interaction of all of these elements creates an electrical charge that
sparks lightning. Active craters add ash to the mix.
Lightning cracks during an eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull Volcano in 2010
#9. Volcano Waterspout
Waterspouts can emerge the way traditional tornadoes do, but not
always. Many are created when near-surface winds suddenly change
direction under a cloud that is producing a growing updraft. Unlike a
tornado, a waterspout vortex and funnel cloud are created from the
ground, or water, up.
The eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano inspires the formation of a waterspout
#10. Waterspout Lightning
A sister of the tornado, waterspouts are generally less powerful.
A waterspout parallels a lightning strike over Lake Okeechobee in Florida
