POPULAR MECHANICS***5 Natural Disasters Coming To The U.S***

40-Mile-Long Mudslide, Washington State
Movin' Mountain

On an overcast afternoon high on Mount Rainier, a rocky slope slumps and then cuts loose from the mountain. Small rock slides are common on the volcano's steep flanks, but this one is different. Most of Mount Rainier's west face is in motion. Into the tumbling maelstrom go millions of tons of ice from the Puyallup and Tahoma glaciers. House-size rocks disintegrate in the downward crush. "With Rainier's active hydrothermal system saturating the rock, the landslide would reach the base of the slope as a flowing mass of watery, muddy debris,"

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80-Ft.-High Tsunami, Atlantic Coast
Coast Buster

Cumbre Vieja, the most active volcano in the Canary Islands, lurches as a violent earthquake wracks its upper slopes. A third of the mountain breaks away and plunges into the Atlantic Ocean, pushing up a dome of water nearly 3000 ft. high. They don't yet know it, but tens of millions of Americans from Key West, Fla., to South Lubec, Maine, have just 9 hours to escape with their lives.

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Magnitude 6.9 Earthquake, Mississippi River Valley
Stress Test

Ten miles beneath Caruthersville, Mo., stress along an ancient rift zone releases in a violent spasm. Shock waves from the magnitude 6.9 earthquake roll 160 miles up the Mississippi River Valley to St. Louis, and 75 miles downriver to Memphis, Tenn. The soils under Memphis ripple like a shook rug. Century-old brick buildings heave, then crumble. Sewer and water lines rupture. Gaslines snap. Downtown, the 14-story federal building, a decade overdue for quakeproofing, rains 3-ton panels.

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195-MPH Hurricane, Florida
Tropical Terror

Packing maximum sustained winds of 195 mph, Hurricane Lyle slams into Coral Gables just south of Miami. The breadth and intensity of the storm dazzles meteorologists, who rank it the strongest hurricane ever to hit the U.S. mainland.

Climate-Changing Ocean Disruption, North Atlantic
Sea Change

Winters in the Northeast begin to bite with a ferocity last seen during the deep freezes of 1936 and 1978, when icebreakers plied the Mississippi and Hudson rivers. Winter temperatures in Washington, D.C., begin to approximate those of Boston. Extreme drought grips the Midwest, sending grain commodity prices soaring; crops fail and farmers spin into bankruptcy. Climate patterns go haywire. London, Paris and the Scandinavian capitals shiver through their coldest winters since 1850. Summer monsoons in India and China weaken, affecting harvests that feed hundreds of millions of people. Fisheries decline when plankton populations collapse. Drought and flood push worldwide agricultural losses to $250 billion.

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Lets take a long hard look at each of these and what else is can come out of all of this. How much more can mother earth handle.

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Its amazing how accurate these could be

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Nope not always

Stopped reading it after their bogus 911 article.

This doom you can sink your teeth into. I get tired of presidential doom. Give me good old fashion doom anyday.

Popular mechanics is one of the last magazines to be infiltrated by the government and turned into idiotic crap about aliens and silly DOOM scenarios.


Michael Chertoff's brother is now the editor in chief of Popular Mechanics. Michael Chertoff was the first director of the Department of Homeland Security, in case you forgot already.

Just like they bought out the Discovery Channel and a few of the last remaining good channels on TV and turned them into meat head shows.

You Serious!