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Americans are not strangers for natural disasters. Every year the US exist extreme storms, furious forest fires, earthquakes and more.
In 2024 there were 27 billion dollars of catastrophes in the US and those were only weather and climate-related events.
But scientists have long warned that the worst yet to come.
From a megaquake to a supercharged hurricane and a devastating volcanic eruption, research has shown that certain exceptionally dangerous disasters will certainly occur.
Each of these events could waste on entire cities – resulting in mass death, the destruction of thousands of houses and the full collapse of regional infrastructure.
It is not a matter of whether they will strike, but when.
Even with ultramodern technology and research methods, predicting natural disasters is very challenging. And in some cases it is impossible.
That is why scientists encouraged Americans to prepare scenarios at any time on this sausage-case.
Although the disaster parality has increased in recent years, experts say that the imminent threat of this 'inevitable' crises will keep them awake at night.
From a megaquake to a supercharged hurricane and a devastating volcanic eruption, research has shown that exceptionally dangerous disasters will happen at a certain moment
'The Great'
The west coast is too late for a huge earthquake along the San Andreas error, a break in the crust of the earth that spans 800 miles in California.
The expected magnitude-8 earthquake would cause the famous cities of the state, which causes around 1,800 deaths, 50,000 injuries and $ 200 billion in damage, according to the large Shakeout in California. And experts say this is an underestimation.
It is impossible to predict exactly when 'the big' – or an earthquake – will take place. But experts are pretty sure that a large earthquake could hit California in the next 30 years.
That is because geological studies suggest that a large pocket for the San Andreas Fault occurs every 150 years – and the last one was 167 years ago.
“We want people to know that this can happen at any time,” Christie Rowe, director of the Seismological Laboratory in Nevada, told Daily Mail.
“It can take 300 years, or it can happen tomorrow,” she said.
When 'The Big One' inevitably strikes, shaking high intensity starts within the first 30 seconds.
Cities and villages within a radius of 60 miles from the epicenter and are directly on the fault line – such as Palm Springs – could have shake into intensity level 9.
'The Big One' would cause damage in California in a few minutes
This level of land movement is considered 'violent' and can cause considerable damage to buildings – even cause some collapse or move their foundations, according to the Geological Survey of the United States.
If the epicenter is near the Salton Sea, intensity level 2 to 3 shaking Los Angeles would reach about 45 seconds after the first break, according to the large Shakeout in California.
At 75 seconds, vibrations with high intensity would roll in, steadily increasing basic movement to the most violent shaking – to intensity level 9 – touches around 90 seconds.
According to the Shakeout, violent shaking can rock for at least a minute.
At that time there will probably have been great damage – the leading buildings to crumble and move them from their foundations. As the infrastructure is destroyed, many residents are likely to be injured or killed.
Although scientists cannot predict exactly when 'the big' will strike, the extent of damage is so great that it is not trivial to prepare for it, “said Rowe.
Category 6 Hurricane Danielle
Somewhere around the year 2100, an 'ultra-intense category 6' hurricane could unleash itself on the US.
This serious prediction is part of the book category FIVE: Superstorms and the warming oceans they feed, in which author Porter Fox contained scientific calculations and testimonies from sailors who have treated extreme with extreme again.
Although this is a theoretical weather, Fox called the 'the most powerful storm ever on earth,' predictive that it will form in the turn of the century and be mentioned as a hurricane Danielle.
Several studies have shown Climate change is in a dark new era of 'Mega-Hurricanes', as a result of which scientists evoke an unprecedented category 6 hurricane designation.
An 'ultra-tense category 6' storm would bring winds from 192 miles per hour or higher and cause an increase in seawater of more than 25 feet. Although this is a theoretical weather, experts called the 'most powerful storm ever on earth' (stock image)
A storm of category 6 would bring winds from 192 miles per hour or higher and cause an increase in seawater from more than 25 feet, experts predict.
In his book, Fox says that Hurricane Danielle would go directly to New York City, draw Due to the slender channel between Staten Island and the Dyker Heights of Brooklyn, who ended Hurricane Sandy in 2012 by the Hurricane Sandy.
“Destruction will be on a scale that has never been seen in the northeast,” wrote Fox, “more like a cyclone on the floodplains of India or Bangladesh than wind events in the tristoat.”
Fox's hypothetical 'Hurricane Danielle' would come in The port of New York first, rattling the Verrazano-Narrows bridge with brutal intense winds.
The wind would hit the three-foot-thick suspension cables of the span and “send both levels from the road to the bottom bay.”
While the hurricane enters the port of New York, the entire Governors Island would be flooded by 'a Wall of Whitewater'.
“Most windows in the Freedom Tower, built to resist gusts of wind to two hundred miles per hour, blow out,” according to FOX, ironically “his wind can be reduced and probably save the building.”
As the water waters rise, the city quickly loses the electricity, internet and mobile phones. Fox estimated that the death toll of Hurricane Danielle who became the most densely populated American city would be around 42,000.
“Thousands of families torn apart,” he writes. “Hundreds of neighborhoods deleted.”
Mount Rainier outburst
Mount Rainier, perhaps the most dangerous volcanoes in the US, looms on Olympia, Washington
Vulcanologists say that it is only a matter of time to Mount Rainier, perhaps the most dangerous volcano in the US, unleashes on the Pacific Northwest.
The huge, active Stratovolcano looms in some of the largest cities in the region. Almost 90,000 people live in the danger zone, including residents of Seattle, Tacoma and Yakima in Washington, as well as Portland, Oregon.
Mount Rainier has not delivered any significant eruption in more than 1000 years, but experts keep an eye on it very closely because of the potential to blow at any time and to create widespread destruction.
“Mount Rainier holds me up at night because it is such a big threat to the surrounding communities,” said Jess Phoenix, a volcanologist and ambassador for the Union of Concerned Scientists, during an appearance on CNN.
When the volcano eventually blows, it is not lava streams or stifling clouds of axle that threaten surrounding cities, but Lahars: violent, fast -moving mud flows that can tear over entire communities within a few minutes.
A village on the Java Island in Indonesia was flooded by a Lahar after the Semeru volcano broke out in 2022
According to the US Geological Survey, large lahars can crush, buried or take almost everything in their paths.
“Tacoma and South Seattle are built on 100-foot thick old mud flows due to eruptions from Mount Rainier,” said Phoenix.
This is a strong indication that these densely populated cities are within the path of potential lahars generated by a future eruption.
In the past 20 years, scientists have expanded an upgrade of Lahar monitoring stations around the volcano, jointly known as the Mount Rainier Lahar detection system.
These new technologies have considerably improved the effectiveness of the system, so that it can work in real time.
Cities near Mount Rainier also serve strategies for emergency aid to prepare for a possible eruption.
