what is the scariest natural disaster?

[StillMcfuu]

this. yellowstone can cause all of these and even the pandemic due to the ashfall. volcanoes are the Jill of all Trades; master of all.

That would be the Mary Sue of all Trades.

[Orange Joe]

i'm talking about natural stuff from earth.

You didn't say from earth. You just said natural.

Gamma ray burst.
Solar flares.
asteroids.
super nova.

All natural.

[Doctor Amadeus]

I am going to have to say Other: Asteroid based on earths history, there is no getting around that one, end of life as we know it, next would be a pandemic for sure.

[hellhamster]

Imma go with cyanobacteria producing too much poop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

[Shadowferal]

I suppose it depends...a bit relative
I'm 50 miles away from the ocean and if I saw a wall of water coming from that direction "terror" would cover my feeling at the moment.
But for now I don't want to see a tornado. That is the nearest likely natural life changer...

[Tuor]

You didn't say from earth. You just said natural.

Gamma ray burst.
Solar flares.
asteroids.
super nova.

All natural.

Any of these, plus pandemic, they can all hit global proportions, even that most pandemics are local.

[zealo]

Depends on the scale we're talking about. In worst case scenarios it's probably something like if Yellowstone were to go boom.

Below that it's been a while since we last had something like e.g Krakatoa erupting in the 19th century. An eruption so massive the pressure wave of it rounded the whole earth 3 times over, and could be heard thousands of kilometres away.

[breadisfunny]

You forgot Trump

I guess you think he is from outspace. That is why not there.

except he is manmade.

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I suppose it depends...a bit relative
I'm 50 miles away from the ocean and if I saw a wall of water coming from that direction "terror" would cover my feeling at the moment.
But for now I don't want to see a tornado. That is the nearest likely natural life changer...

we've had numerous tornados in our state. 3 that have hit my city. one of them came close to hitting ours.

[EnclosedOne]

the scariest for me are the ones that have no warning. so something like an earthquake and a land slide. even a pandemic isn't as scary because there is a brief window of time for people to try and do something before it gets out of hand

[Strawberry]

Pandemic, although not the corona type, more like Ebola where you bleed out of all your openings, including eyes. It has a very high mortality rate and you die in horrible pain.

[tehealadin]

I have to go with pandemic, mainly because it is the only one I have experienced.

[muto]

I don’t think Pandemic is a “natural” disaster, so I just ignored that one and voted for Sinkhole. Those things are scary.

[breadisfunny]

I don’t think Pandemic is a “natural” disaster, so I just ignored that one and voted for Sinkhole. Those things are scary.

virus and bacteria are part of nature so yes they are.

[muto]

virus and bacteria are part of nature so yes they are.

That doesn’t mean they’re “natural” disasters. They’re disasters, but not “natural” disasters.

https://www.dhs.gov/natural-disasters

[ipaq]

American stupidity.

tornado?
hurricane?
earthquake?
mudslide?
flood?
volcano?
sinkhole?
pandemic?
avalanche?
tsunami?

can a mod edit my poll to have tsunami included with flood?

[Weeps]

One example: Pompeii.

The volcano erupted with so much fury it wiped out entire ZONES.

Tornadoes only wreck what's in it's path.
Hurricanes are predictable as hell these days.
Tsunami is devastating but you can recover and reconstruct in the area.

Many pandemics are from prolonged animal-to-human interactions (zoonotic). Look up how we got the chicken pox, for example. Swine flu, etc. This is something that can be avoided with regulations.

Volcanic eruptions like Pompeii would be a damn near extinction level event. We are overdue for multiple volcanic eruptions

[PokeKitty]

Solar flare or meteor strike, anything from space can do way more damage to us.

Pandemic is kinda dangerous as well because that thing happens more frequently than space disaster.

[LeGin Tufnel]

Volcano. Without a shadow of a doubt.

Agonising, fiery, burning death from above or a quick, sleepy slide into suffocation (thinking sinkhole in the middle of the night).

It’s a no brainer.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

Tornado. Fast, powerful, and unpredictable. Of course we could list some extinction level events that are obviously worse but I figure I would comment on one that happens fairly regularly across the world and not something like "super volcano" or "dinosaur killing sized asteroid hitting the earth".

[Thereturn]

People fear nothing more like the unknown. Therfor an alien invasion and even corona top this list.