if you want to play that game then you could say the eruption isn't a disaster... it's the collision of the lava or pyroclastic flow with populated areas that's a disaster.
I suppose if it did significant damage to wildlife or some ecosystem it could be called an ecological disaster, but, generally, things are considered to be disasters when they impact living things.
My university professor used to say, there are no natural - or ecological - disasters. They are only disasters for us humans, but for nature, it is just an occasional - and not unusual - event. Think about how many asteroid impacts Jupiter gets in a year. But nobody would call them disasters because nobody lives there to be affected by them.
I mean, the asteroid impact that caused a mass extinction could definitely be considered an ecological/natural disaster. It definitely didn't affect humans but could have wiped out life in the universe
They are all tropical cyclones, they just call them different things in the Atlantic and Pacific regions. But I see your point, that one would also work on a "groups of three" quiz.
yeah, i agree with every single person, we all went for the more intelligent answer being mount vesuvius, however all we really needed to type was volcano
[citation needed] In my oh-so-exhaustive search of the interwebz, I can't find a source that justifies the interchanging of a caldera and volcano/supervolcano. A caldera is a feature of many volcanoes (super or not).
platitude is exactly right. dg48 and ctleng are wrong. A caldera is a geographic feature left over (sometimes) after a volcanic eruption. It is not the volcano itself, nor does the presence of a caldera have any bearing on the size of the volcano that created it.
It's ok you guys. kalbahamut is the smartest person on Jetpunk and is happy to show you that on every single quiz. Despite the fact that Wikipedia's page says that the Yellowstone Caldera is also known as the Yellowstone Supervolcano, I'm sure he's right.
Oh and because it says so on Wikipedia it must be right, right? And even if it says what you say it says, it's wrong to infer from that that caldera = supervolcano in general.
The question asks about the time bomb under Yellowstone. The Yellowstone supervolcano is also known as the Yellowstone caldera. Maybe not in other locations, but certainly at Yellowstone, supervolcano and caldera are interchangeable.
Again, I don't think that's tenable. The Yellowstone Caldera is the crater/valley left behind, not something that can be a ticking time bomb, and it would be hard to argue that the valley is 'under' itself.
Perhaps the ordering of the quiz has changed... but the first one now is talking about Mt. Vesuvius, a volcano on the Gulf of Naples, Italy, that buried the Italian city of Pompeii. Surely not American-centric.
Yes, and when they erupt it is catastrophic. There are about 20 of them on the planet, and let's hope none of them erupt in our lifetimes. The Old Faithful geyser is a reminder of the action going on beneath the surface in Yellowstone National Park.
I know it's not really common, but I want a black hole. Or an SMBH, like the one in the middle of the Milky Way, just waiting for us to come too close in our rockets and suck us all in and spaghettify us. (I know spaghettify isn't a word but it sounds fun.)
For "ultimate failure of diplomacy," I kept trying things like World War III, apocalypse, nuclear winter before finally realizing it was just war. I took "ultimate" too literally.
I like how you included Train Derailment, it tripped a lot of people up. I like the Earthquake quote. And I thought fire would be one, but after the quiz I only noticed that there was Forest Fire.
here aswell. A long period of non stop rain. Just not extremely heaving rainfaill. Even after getting the asnwer right, I kept reading the question to let it sink in. But I could just not unsee it.But stop pondering about it and moved on, cause time was still ticking..
Sorry, but this site uses facts and science. I think you are looking for the Flights of Fancy fantasy quiz site, where you can answer questions about man and dinosaurs living at the same time, and the age of the universe being 6000 years. You have fun with that!!
If using only facts and science then Nero18 is correct. Look at the loudest people pushing the global warming theory and they have their entire wealth built on the hoax. Al Gore has made tens of millions of dollars pushing the nonsense but if you want to know what a person truly believes don't listen to them, look at their actions. Gore drives gas guzzlers, flies around in private jets, has huge mansions for just a couple of people. He is either a liar or a hypocrite. The science itself changes to reflect the narrative and the people claiming scientists have proven it is fact ignore the scientists who have debunked it. Global warming is politically and financially driven.
Glaciers and polar ice are melting. That is very strong evidence that the earth is warming. Whether humans are adding to the warming is the question. I think it would be better to cut back on fossil fuels even if they are not the cause of the earth warming.
Sinkhole should be an acceptable answer for "Loose or wet soil can cause this". Quicksand would also work but I don't really associate it with a disaster.
A disaster is something that you would fear to happen to you in the present or future - i.e. it is something that would have an actual impact on our lives.
Hence SHIPWRECK should not be on this list. Change the answer to iceberg instead, and it would be consistent with the rest of this quiz.
Sorry, QM, but the asteroid answer must be changed to meteor or meteorite (asteroid can remain a type-in). It is impossible for asteroids to hit the Earth, as they remain in somewhat steady elliptical motion in belts around stars. Only meteors can hit the Earth. Also, could hotspot be accepted for supervolcano, since it’s what causes it?
I should really learn ton read the question properly, for the rain one I was really stumped, I tried flood and deluge to no avail, only when the answer was revealed did I read the question properly.
In Australia we call them bushfires. Sadly, if you want to update this quiz you can refer to the bushfire epidemic -- I can't think of any other word for it -- that has ravaged large parts of New South Wales, and smaller regions of Queensland and Western Australia since late November; that's nearly a month. When the media or whoever eventually names these things, comes up with a name tag, Black Sunday will pale in comparison. That's not belittling in any way what happened then, but this is a whole new level of disaster.
I mean, the asteroid impact that caused a mass extinction could definitely be considered an ecological/natural disaster. It definitely didn't affect humans but could have wiped out life in the universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano
Looks like a caldera is just a crater. Supervolcanos don't have to form in calderas.
I'd like to keep singing walruses.
100% with 3:04 left. Watched a show about the Yellowstone supervolcano in the last year or so. That will be an epic event when it goes.
Hence SHIPWRECK should not be on this list. Change the answer to iceberg instead, and it would be consistent with the rest of this quiz.
I was looking for something related to Alternate Current :D