Top 4 Worst Natural Disasters

1. 1931 China Floods

The 1931 China floods were a series of floods that occurred in the Republic of China. The floods are generally considered among one of the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded. The total death toll ranges from 145,000 to between 3.7 million and 4 million. The reason for the huge difference in death is because Chinese sources say one thing and Western sources says another. Nine cyclones hit the region, whereas on average only two occur per year.

2. 1556 Shaanxi Earthquake

Map of China showing modern-day Shaanxi
province (red) and the other provinces
affected by the earthquake (orange)

Red and orange show parts affected by the earthquake.

1556 Shaanxi Earthquake was the deadliest earthquake on record, killing approximately 830,000 people. It occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi.

An 840-kilometre-wide (520 mi) area was destroyed that morning, and in some counties as much as 60% of the population was killed. Most of the population in the area at the time lived in yaodongs, artificial caves in many of which collapsed with catastrophic loss of life.

3. 1887 Yellow River Flood

The 1887 Yellow River flood was a devastating flood on the Yellow River (Huang He) in China. The flood, that began in September 1887, killed some 900,000 people.

The 1887 and the 1931 floods happened at the same place, Yellow River. In both cases many people lost their lives and many were left homeless.

4. 1976 Tangshan Earthquake

The 1976 Tangshan Earthquake is believed to be the largest earthquake of the 20th century by death toll. The number of deaths on average is between 300 000 and 600 000.

The earthquake hit in the early morning and lasted 14 to 16 seconds. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter magnitude scale and it was followed by a major 7.1 magnitude aftershock some 16 hours later, increasing the death toll to over 255,000.

Top 4 Most Bizarre Ocean Creatures

1. Pink Sea Through Fantasia

The Pink Sea Through Fantasia is an incredible creature that was only recently discovered. It’s family of the free swimming sea cucumber. The Pink Sea Through Cucumber was found in the Celebes Sea.

The Pink Sea Through Fantasia  was discovered at a depth of approximately 8,200 ft. The amazing creature was discovered by a team of scientists and underwater photographers.

2. Sea Angel

Sea angels are a large group of extremely small, swimming sea slugs. They have a wide geographic range, from polar regions, under sea ice, to tropic seas. They are family of the Gymnosomata.

Gymnosomata are carnivorous, feeding only on their fellow pteropods, the Thecosomata. Their lifestyles have coevolved with those of their prey, with their feeding strategy adapting to the morphology and consistency of the thecosome shell.

3. Glowing Sucker Octopus

These weird looking octopuses can be found at great depths in the north Atlantic Ocean. Their name came from the fact that they emit a blue-green light from about 40 modified suckers known as photophores.

The function of the light is believed to be for defence, being used by the animal to scare off predators , and also as a lure for the plankton that form its main diet.

4. Squidworm

Not much is known about these little creatures yet, because they only recently discovered them. Squidworms live about 100 to 200 metres above the ocean floor. Teuthidodrilus does not appear to be a predator, feeding instead on bits of so-called “marine snow”, a mix of sinking microscopic plants and animals.

Top 4 Predictions That Came True

1. World War II
The three seers of Our Lady of Fátima
indicated in 1917 that the Virgin Mary had prophesied a “great sign in the night sky” which would precede a second great war. On January 25, 1938, bright lights (an aurora borealis) appeared all over the northern hemisphere, visible from all of Europe and from places as far south as North Africa, Bermuda
and California. This, the widest occurrence of the aurora since 1709, caused people in Paris and elsewhere to
believe that a great fire was burning and to call fire departments.

Lúcia, the sole surviving seer at the time, indicated that it was the sign foretold and apprised her superior and bishop accordingly in letters the following day. Six weeks later, Germany began its first unlawful seizure of foreign land, the occupation of Austria.

2. Prediction of cell phones and wi-fi
More than sixty years before the first cell phone and ninety years prior to the introduction of “wi-fi”, Nikola Tesla, a gifted electrical engineer and former right-hand man of Thomas Edison, told the New York Times , “It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages all over the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.”

3. Mormon prophecies
Section 87 of the Mormon Doctrine and
Covenants, written in 1832, accurately
predicts that South Carolina will begin a war of the South against the North and call on Great Britain for assistance.

4. Bahá’í prophecies
The Báb proclaimed that he was the forerunner of a coming prophet, ” he whom God shall make manifest “. Followers of the Bahá’í Faith believe that Bahá’u’lláh was this prophet. In 1873, Bahá’u’lláh , who was living at the time in Acre in Ottoman Palestine, prophesied that Germany would lose one war and then fight another: “O banks of the Rhine! We have seen you covered with gore, inasmuch as the swords of retribution were drawn against you; and you shall have another turn. And We hear the lamentations of Berlin, though she be today in conspicuous glory.”

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