The world has a lot of very dangerous place, hard to believe that someone is willing to live there. The following is a veteran technology magazine alive, need to struggle with nature not only the perseverance and skill mm still need more good luck.
1, the ultimate in
cold very cold in Russia, Minsk Yang Wei Erhuo
Figure: Setting the Virgin Young Minsk City Hall entrance to the monument, engraved above the Russian word for circle of the most ancient cities in the world's coldest. Currently, the residents of about 1,500 people, living beside the river Yana 9 months of the year are due to the freezing cold.
here is called ; cold ultimate way. record of minus 90 degrees Celsius.
Today, the city also attracted a number of adventurous tourists to experience. And most of the period in history, there have been a preferred destination for exile. from the Czar and later the Soviet Union, people who commit serious crimes here have often been banished to the suffering of the population here was .20 century peak mm2500 residents.
2, Fire Mountain
Indonesia, Mount Merapi volcano
Figure: A woman calmly lady in the car, not far from Mount Merapi volcano is braving the thick smoke.
even in the most quiet period, the volcano Mount Merapi on Java island has also become increasingly difficult burning, volcanic mouth came a thick ominous Smoke. General volcanoes once every two to three years, has a small eruption, every 10-15 years there will be a major eruption .1994 deadly outbreak of the release of hot gases and pyroclastic flow led to 64 deaths. and in 1930 outbreak, the Mount Merapi volcano lava, resulting in the destruction of 13 villages, 1,400 people died. Despite the turbulent history that, at present there are about 20 million residents living within 6.4 km radius of the volcano. And Java, Mount Merapi is people living in the volcano adventure, one of the 22 active volcanoes in the foot here, the Islanders more than 120 million living people.
3, Haiti's Photo: weeks later, Hurricane The coastal city of Gonaives by 4 games to tropical hurricanes. When the last storm, Gonaives has been involved in almost the sea. Most cities have been buried close to 4 meters in the soil and the sewage , the total number of nearly 500 people dead. But the storm is not Gonaives disasters of modern history's most deadly .2004, the city suffered a severe attack of Hurricane Jeanne, three turmoil has resulted in more than three thousand Haitians death, most cities have been razed to the ground area.
What is so vulnerable to Gonaives, hurricane damage? its coastal location, is just plain Gonaives and the storm center of the cyclone in the Caribbean. To make matters worse, Haitians depend on charcoal for a living process, leading to the slopes around the city is a large-scale felling of forests, heavy rains hit, the hills around Gonaives is prone to landslides, pose a serious threat to the city.
4, Africa's killer lakes
Democratic Republic of Congo / Rwanda, Lake Kivu
Figure: volcanic eruption near Lake Kivu into the lake of lava, steam rising from the lake.
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda at the junction of the Great Lakes of Lake Kivu is one of the bears at the bottom of the lake under the 65 billion cubic meters of methane gas and 250 cubic km of carbon dioxide. Once these gases are released from the lake depths, will be terrible the cloud of death Monoun lake bottom gas eruption, resulting in 37 deaths. Three years later, Lake Nyos in Cameroon lake eruption of 80 cubic meters of carbon dioxide gas, followed by more than 1,700 deaths due to contact with poison gas. experts believe that the bottom of Lake Kivu there are similar threats . The United Nations Environment Programme report on these three lakes are now known as Maldives islands
Figure: staring at the sea,bailey UGG boots, do not know when will be forced to move, say goodbye to a beautiful home.
since Muhammad - Nasheed took over in 2008, Maldives to become a dangerous place. As the Maldives first democratically elected president, Mohammed - Nasheed announced the creation of a migration fund.
is the 1190 Islands and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean atoll of the Federation, the highest point was only 1.8 meters above sea level, in the near future, there is likely to be swallowed whole into the Indian Ocean tsunami .2004 below sea level, after evaluation of the U.S. Geological Survey in 2005 as the Maldives will land on earth one of the youngest and that it exists in time is not on the water too long. Nasheed, the president plans to be able to move to another piece of the Maldivian people a good place to .2004 after the tsunami, where 10% of the country uninhabitable, 300,000 one-third of citizens in the Maldives people homeless, more than 80 people were killed. In addition, the mining of coral reefs around the island for this land is also vulnerable to sea erosion.
6, br> Cayman Islands
Figure: NASA MODIS on the Aqua satellite data instrument .2004 true color images captured on Sept. 13, 240 km south of the Cayman Islands, famous for champagne and caviar. There are pristine beaches, world-class diving, tropical island playground, and relaxed banking regulations. However, the Let this be dangerous to the extreme. According to storm tracking site statistics, where it will hit every 2.16 years, a hurricane hit the Atlantic basin than in any one area should be frequent. since 1871, before and after the storm went through 64 games, while the Here is more vulnerable low-lying limestone landscape makes every crisis can lead to disastrous consequences.
2004, the five one of the submerged land, about 70% of the buildings were destroyed, more than 40,000 residents without clean water, no electricity in the case of struggling for a few days.
7, I-44 corridor
Russian Tornado Oklahoma City, Tulsa
Figure: Moore, Oklahoma, a tornado destroyed this motel, a little girl and her dog sitting in ruins in the homeless.
Russia between Oklahoma City and Tulsa along Interstate 44 is called Rockies dry cold air through this low-lying plains, and wet along the Gulf Coast from the hot air meet, they happened as a tornado.
since 1890, after more than 120 tornadoes hit Oklahoma Oklahoma City and surrounding areas on May 3 the year 1999 a tornado swept through Oklahoma City and surrounding areas,UGG boots clearance, 1,700 homes flattened, 6500 buildings were damaged. Oklahoma City, northeast along the trail of the same most often hit by the tornado. In the small town population of 590,000 in the Tulsa, 1950 to 2006 a total of 69 tornado hit. In addition, built on the Arkansas River in Tulsa, here is a series of alluvial streams from the plains, in the rain is still vulnerable to bad weather floods .1974, 1976 and 1984, three large-scale floods caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.
8, rapid desertification in Minqin
China, Gansu Minqin
figure: a man go the way of farmland, sand storm hit so hard he did open eyes walking.
Minqin County, northwest China's Gansu Province, was once a fertile oasis, and now the invasion by two deserts, all kinds of desertified land area now has reached 94.5% .10 years, the long-term drought, closure of the upstream water of life, and salinization of groundwater, makes only passing through Minqin Shiyang provides less than 1 million cubic meters of water, still water 600 million m3 Minqin. the county has 13.5 million mu of artificial angustifolia forest dieback and death of 50 million mu of forest land desertification, nearly 400 acres of natural gravel grassland degradation. (News Review>>> swallowed by desert Minqin)
As of 2004, the desert is still the speed of 10 meters per year near this area. Each year, over 130 days wind invasion, and the numbers are growing. wind, severe dust storms that crops have been destroyed along Minqin sand, sand pressure housing was a serious threat to people's survival. the face of rapid and severe desertification, the Chinese government has begun the relocation of displaced farmers . Hundreds of thousands were forced abandonment of farmland and tens of thousands of people relocated, abandoned villages everywhere. (News Review>>> Minqin: Wind Oasis hanging by a thread)
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