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Accidents such disasters can not be predicted arrival. Sudden and often casualties in large quantities.
Not only earthquakes, hurricanes or other large-scale disasters, the Earth also was hit by a falling meteor. Volcanic eruptions are changing the world's climate to a mysterious explosion in Siberia also one of them.
The natural disaster also sometimes cause strange effects on Earth. Like the 'disappearance' of the sun up the appearance of the veil of dust.
The following 6 Weirdest catastrophic events in history
1. The Year Without a Summer
In April 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted. The event was touted as one of the events most devastating volcanic eruptions in history.
The explosion was killing tens of thousands of people in Southeast Asia and spewing a giant cloud of dust into the stratosphere.
As the cloud spread to all corners of the world, the sun becomes blocked. As a result, the temperature dropped about 3 degrees and becomes distorted in scale terrible weather in the next year.
In India, drought and flooding due to the effects of Tambora eruption changed the ecology of the Bay of Bengal and triggered the emergence of a new type of cholera that killed millions of people. In Europe, rains and prolonged winter caused famine and widespread civil unrest.
In the United States, the snow fell thick in some states in June, the abort crops and triggering the economic slowdown.
New Englander dub 1816 as Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death, but later became known as the Year Without a Summer.
Weather disturbances that produce side effects fairly unique. Bicycle discovery by German inventor Karl Drais is linked to the high price of horse feed in Europe as a result of the incident.
In Switzerland, prolonged rains in 1816 forced the author Mary Shelley miss the summer in the house alone. He then busied himself with writing the most famous horror novel 'Frankenstein.'
2. The Carrington Effect in 1859
Storm sun (solar flares) occurs when magnetic energy that is hidden in the Sun's surface is released through the blast of radiation and charged particles. The resulting explosive force equivalent to millions of hydrogen bomb explosion, and the resulting solar wind can spread the debacle in the earth's atmosphere.
That's exactly what happened in late August and early September 1859, when the Earth was bombarded by the biggest solar storm in history.
Event called "Carrington Event" - named after the British astronomer Richard Carrington-- this makes the sky sparkling with colorful auroras shine to the south of Hawaii.
In Colorado, the night is so bright that one eyewitness reported that people can easily read at night.
The landscape may indeed beautiful, but the resulting geomagnetic disturbances crippling telegraph systems worldwide. Sparks came out of some of the telegraph machine, cause fires and electric shocks engine operator.
The atmosphere was so charged electricity to the extent that in some places there are technicians that they could send telegraph messages even though the battery has been removed. 'Solar Storm 1985' finally ended after a few days, but scientists estimate that the same events happen again now, the telecommunication system can be destroyed and cause damage to the trillions of dollars.
3. 'Grasshopper Year' 1874
Locusts destroying crops, the farmer may be common in the late 19th century in America, but it was nothing compared to what happened in the Great Plainspada summer 1874.
Spring dry and arid when it creates ideal conditions for locusts in the Rocky Mountains to spawn in large numbers. Trillions of eggs that then hatch and invade Nebraska, Kansas, Dakota, Iowa and other states.
Eyewitnesses called if locusts had arrived in a large collection resembles a very thick cloud to be blocking the sun for several hours. After landing, they devoured all the crops in the fields, local plants and even clothing that people wear.
"The air is really so alive because of them," wrote the New York Times.
"They hit a home, huddled around the window, mentupi passing train. It was like they were sent to do damage. "
People tried to burn down or blow up the locusts, with gunpowder, but they are powerless against the amount. Crops worth millions of dollars eventually destroyed by the events that came to be known as the 'Year of the Grasshopper.'
US Army deployed to distribute aid to the victims, but many surrendered and fled to the East. Similar outbreaks continue to haunt a few years later. The plague ended in the early 20th century, after the environmental changes causing locust Rockies extinct.
4. Dust Shroud (The Dust Veil) Year 536
In the mid-sixth century, a cloud of sand and dust suddenly engulfed most of the earth, dimming the sun and cause unnatural cold temperatures for several years.
"A sign of the most frightening place," Procopius, the Byzantine historian wrote in the year 536. "Because the sun shines bright but not .. and like eclipse, because it emits light is not bright."
The long winter that followed led to drought, crop failure and hunger around the world. Some experts speculate that this has also become one of the triggers of the first plague in Europe.
Although it has a very broad impact, scientists are still not sure what causes global cooling 530an year. One theory is that there is no mention that the giant volcanic eruptions spew dust into the upper atmosphere and blocking sunlight.
Research on ice core samples from Greenland and Antarctica indicate the presence of high concentrations of sulfate ions released by the volcano, and there is evidence that indicates the possibility of ever happening devastating volcanic eruption in El Salvador 530an year.
Other researchers suspect the collision (or almost collisions) with kometlah cause. Halley's comet passed the Earth in 530, and may be fragments off the track and hit the earth, causing the giant dust cloud.
5. Fog Strikes 1952
Not all natural disasters are entirely natural. In December 1952, air pollution due to human activity forms a cloud of soot that last up to 4 days. This deadly fog due to the high pressure system that produces stagnant unnatural conditions.
Instead of spreading into the atmosphere as usual, puff clouds of coal smoke and factories instead collected in the sky and would not leave. The fog reduced visibility in some places to nearly zero.
The animals die one by one due to asphyxiation in a meadow. Residents of London was attacked by bronchitis, pneumonia and other respiratory problems. Many children and parents died from lung damage due to inflammation.
About 4,000 people were killed before the wind carries away the fog.
The British government then launched a 'Clean Air Act' of 1956, which provides subsidies for people to switch to fuels that are more environmentally friendly, as well prohibit the discharge of coal black smoke in certain areas.
6. Genesis Tunguska
Shortly after 07.00 am on June 30, 1908, appeared a blinding beam of light streaking across the sky Siberia and exploded above the Tunguska River Podkamennaya. The resulting shock wave measuring 5 to 10 megatons of TNT - hundreds of times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
This explosion destroyed 500,000 hectares of forest. Remarkably, no one was killed, but its effects are felt around the world.
Device atmospheric and seismic death to England. For several nights after that, the sky is so very bright to the point that people in Asia could read newspapers outdoors.
Experts suspect this is due to a meteor collision. But the Russian expedition team found no sign of any impact crater, when they finally came to the blast site were isolated in 1927.
Although there are no tracks, most scientists still believed that "Tunguska Event" is due to the fall of space rocks.
One possibility is that icy comets that crashed was instantly evaporate, so do not leave a trace. Which is more reasonable again in diameter, 65 to 100 feet exploded in the upper atmosphere and break into small pieces.
Witnesses reported that they heard a noise like stones falling from the sky after the initial explosion. Samples carcass plant in Tunguska also contains nickel, iron, and other substances commonly found in meteor crash site.
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