Natural Disasters

What Will Happen When The ‘Big One’ Hits California?
On Monday, a 4.4 magnitude earthquake threw the city of Los Angeles into a bit of a tizzy. The ground shook, people screamed and news anchors ducked under their desks. But it was just a 4.4 magnitude earthquake. So what would happen if the “Big One” hit California? What would happen if an earthquake hundreds […]

Pandemic Survival
The population of mankind has been suffering from the onset of pandemics since the beginning of mass civilization. In 430 BC, an early version of typhoid fever killed a quarter of the Athenian population in a matter of four years. Beginning in 1348, the Black Death struck Europe in the form of the bubonic and […]

When Disasters Strike Part 2
Unfortunately some life altering disasters are man-made. They may be even more devastating than natural disasters because we’re often accustomed to the natural ones. The man-made disasters can catch us completely unawares and often have no contingency plan for dealing with them. 1. Climate Change One area that many people say is largely a man-made […]