Get Up Close & Personal With Natural Disasters
Humanity has achieved much in a short
period of time. We build cities, invented amazing machines and even
went to space, but we have to remember that in the end, nature can be so
much more powerful! These 3 videos are a great example of nature’s incredible power.
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The Tavurvur Volcano Eruption - Papua New Guinea (August, 2014)
Tavurvur: an active volcano on the
island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In 1994, an eruption of the
volcano largely destroyed the nearby town of Rabaul. Mount Tavurvur is
the most active volcano in Rabaul caldera, and erupted most recently on
Friday, 29 August 2014.
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Volcano Eruption in Papua New Guinea
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A collapse of an Arctic Glacier – The Arctic (November 2013)
While filming a documentary about
polar bears for the BBC, Steve Leonard and Jason Roberts sailed a small
boat near a glacier. With small chucks breaking off, they decided to
move away when all of a sudden, the whole glacier collapsed.
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Arctic Glacier collapses . Too close for comfort
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The Chelyabinsk Meteor – Russia (February, 2013)
On 15 February 2013, the Chelyabinsk
Meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere over northern Russia. The light
from the meteor was brighter than the Sun and was observed over a wide
area of the region. Eyewitnesses also felt intense heat from the
fireball. The meteor exploded in mid-air, with a force of nearly 20-30
times more than the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
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Meteorite crash in Russia: Video of meteor explosion that stirred panic in Urals region
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