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Top 10 Times The World Nearly Ended
The biggest question is how is life going to end on this planet. There have been many theories and mythologies predicting the end of the world by many renowned astrologers and mathematicians. There have been several times when it was predicted that life was going to end on earth. However, life somehow continued to survive. Here are ten incidents that almost led us to die from a catastrophic event.
10. Bonillo Comet
In 1883, Jose Bonilla was looking out of his telescope and saw a celestial event that was potentially disastrous to humans. A comet was breaking up in front of the sun, sending fragmented pieces to earth. Scientists estimated that contact with one of those fragments could cause a Tunguska event, which felled 80 million trees in 1908. These fragments missed earth by just 400 miles. That’s like running through the forest with your eyes closed and not hitting any trees.
9. 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
On March 11, 2011 a magnitude-9.0 earthquake rocked the northeast coast of Japan. Its epicenter was 130 kilometers off Sendai, Honshu; it occurred at a relatively shallow depth of 32 kilometers. The temblor violently shook northeast Honshu for six minutes and collapsed its coastline by 1m. Waves of 3 to 38m then pounded Honshu’s coastline, destroying towns and villages and flooding areas up to 10 kilometers inland. Tsunami waves also swept across the Pacific, causing damage or disruptions in Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Casualties from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan was approximately 30,000. More than 125,000 buildings have been washed away or seriously damaged; property damage is estimated to be more than $310 billion. 4 nuclear reactors were also damaged, leading us almost to the edge of a nuclear winter.
8. 1953
In 1953, six years after the doomsday clock, the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear bomb and then headed up the arm race. The U.S. and Soviet Union both were exploding bombs to show off their powers. They were fighting like teenagers about who had powerful. At that time they did not realize that they held the triggers to end life on the whole planet. Thankfully this blood war came to an end.
7. Mount Tambora Erupts
88,000 people died when Indonesia’s Mount Tambora erupted in 1815. It spewed out 175 cubic kilometres of dust and rocks setting off a domino effect of disasters from deadly whirlwinds to 4.6 meter high tsunamis. Traces of the ashes were discovered 1,300 km away from where the eruption took place. The eruption is also the cause of famine and epidemics that occurred throughout Europe.
6. BMews Communication Failure
On November 24, 1961, the world came pretty close to a nuclear end thanks to a broken communications system. The United States’ strategic air command headquarters was unable to make contact with 3 missile sites. Because of the lack of communication was a sign of enemy attack, SAC began preparing bombing crew to take to their airplanes. All out war with Russia was imminent until contact with B-52 was made.
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