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Chapter 732 Typhoon Kills Volcano

From the beginning of walking upright until now, humans are actually a history of struggle that has been fighting against nature.

The Taizu of China even issued the famous saying "Fighting with the sky is endless joy."

Floods, droughts, high temperatures, cold waves, floods, mountain torrents, forest and grassland fires... These natural disasters that occur all the time may be just an instinctive reaction caused by a slight physical discomfort for Mother Earth, but for humans, especially ancient humans, it almost means a catastrophe.

Even in modern times, humans are still irresistible to these natural disasters, especially as humans' destruction on Mother Earth becomes more and more serious, and Mother Earth's temper becomes more and more irritable. One by one, the increasingly large natural disasters are punishing humans.

Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, typhoons (hurricanes) and tornadoes are divided into five extreme natural disasters that are most harmful to humans by modern humans. Among them, earthquakes are undoubtedly the most destructive, tsunamis and tornadoes are second, while volcanic eruptions are more destructive to the atmosphere and have the most lasting impact on the natural environment.

Many scientists say that once the super volcano in Yellowstone Park erupts, it will destroy the earth. In fact, this statement does not mean that the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano will directly destroy the earth. After all, no matter how big the Yellowstone volcano is, it is just a drop in the ocean for the entire earth. This statement mainly refers to the fact that once the Yellowstone volcano erupts, the erupted volcanic ash will cause secondary disasters on the earth like nuclear winter. At that time, the volcanic ash in the atmosphere will block the sunlight for years or even decades, which will cause the extinct death of the earth's vegetation.

Without plants providing oxygen and food, humans naturally cannot survive.

Volcanic eruptions cannot directly cause much harm to humans.

Although tornadoes are very irritable and destructive, the tornadoes have too small impact, so tornadoes rank the lowest among these five natural disasters.

The power of the tsunami is undoubtedly the number of casualties caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami is as high as 300,000, which is a very terrifying number. But in the same way, tsunamis of this level may not be encountered once in a few years or even decades.

As for earthquakes, high-level earthquakes are even more terrifying. For example, the Tangshan earthquake and the Wenchuan earthquake have caused terrifying casualties and property losses. But by the same token, such earthquakes that kill tens of thousands of people at one time only happen every few years or even more than ten years.

But typhoons are different. This thing produces dozens of them every year. Whether it is the Western Pacific or the Western Atlantic Ocean, at least twenty typhoons or hurricanes will occur every year. Among these typhoons or hurricanes, at least three or four strong typhoons will land every year.

Once this strong typhoon lands, the losses caused are often calculated in units of "billion dollars". If residents are not transferred in time, the number of deaths will be terrifying.

Just like Hurricane Katrina in 2005, after the strong wind blew, the losses caused by as much as 200 billion US dollars, causing nearly 2,000 deaths or disappearances.

Therefore, humans combine these natural disasters and ultimately identify them as typhoons (hurricanes) as the most harmful natural disaster to mankind.

The main reason is that typhoons occur too many times every year. The residents of the west coast of the Ocean are suffering from typhoons (hurricanes) every year. But, with the current technology of human beings, there is no way to deal with such terrifying natural disasters. It is not that human beings can be assembled in outer space as they are played in the American blockbuster "Geomatosis Storm", which can easily solve such extreme natural disasters.

But that is a movie after all, and humans can only yell in the movie now. If a super typhoon is coming, humans are still helpless.

This time, the Philippines didn't know which great master it had caused. Undersea earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and the subsequent super typhoon Hagbi all gathered together to erupt. Any of these four natural disasters occurred in a certain place, which was extremely rare. As for the four kinds of erupted together, it was simply unheard of.

But in the Philippines, the island country in the Western Pacific, it was so miserable that it caught up with such a big deal.

Therefore, the eyes of the whole world were attracted by this small island country.

But no matter how attractive it is, the outside world cannot get the specific situation of the disaster area. The ubiquitous volcanic ash rejects the entry of the aircraft, and the violent Hegbi directly rejects all ships. Even the high-resolution spy satellites in the sky cannot see the situation in the disaster area under the heavy clouds and the volcanic ash. People outside only use some fragmented intelligence to infer the disaster situation in the disaster area.

In fact, the situation in the disaster area is really terrible!

The first undersea earthquake broke out almost destroyed most of the buildings in the southeast of Luzon, Catandoness, Leyte, Dinagart, Siago, and eastern coastal areas of Mindanao. The number of deaths in this earthquake alone was already terrifying.

The Philippines is no better than the northern neighbor of Japan. In Japan, this kind of undersea earthquake that occurs one or two hundred kilometers away from the island will cause almost no damage to buildings, but the Philippines will not do it.

After all, the Philippines is a poor country. There are only a few limited cities in this country with solid buildings. Most of the buildings are very simple and cannot withstand such magnitude earthquakes!

The enormous tsunami that followed swept across the eastern coastal areas of the above islands in a more terrifying manner, including Legaspi and Tacloban, and was directly destroyed by the tsunami. Several smaller islands were simply washed away by the tsunami, and the cities, buildings and humans on the island were all destroyed.

Although the outside world is still unable to count the disaster situation in the disaster area, everyone knows that this earthquake and tsunami alone are very likely to set a new record of deaths and missing people in human history!

The huge amount of volcanic ash produced during the eruption of Ma Rong Volcano, which is the least harmful, is not known to the outside world, but Yang Jing and others, who are in the core area of ​​the disaster area, know it clearly.

It's ridiculous to say that the fundamental reason for this change is the fourth super typhoon, Hagby.

It took only four or five days from the time of birth to Hegeby to the Philippines. When Hegeby upgraded to a super typhoon, this guy's temper became much stronger and rushed towards the Philippines with wind and rain.

Although the eruption of Ma Rong Volcano was very violent, it erupted thousands of tons of volcanic ash into the sky, the small Ma Rong Volcano seemed too weak in front of Hegebi, which had a diameter of more than 1,200 kilometers in the cloud system.

Strong winds blow huge amounts of volcanic ash so that they can't rise into the stratosphere of the atmosphere at all. Even the seventh-level wind circle outside the typhoon is enough to blow the volcanic ash all over the place. However, no matter how it flies, as long as the volcanic ash does not fly to the stratosphere, the damage to the atmosphere by the volcanic ash will be reduced to the minimum.

And as the center of Hegby became closer to the Philippines, the overwhelming rains washed the volcanic ash all over.

As we all know, volcanic ash is not soluble in water, but the rainfall brought by Hegebi is too great and the range is too wide. Before the volcanic ash erupted from Mount Marong, it was brought from the air to the ground by heavy rain, forming a black acid rain.

"Yang Jing, it's really uncomfortable to be there, but this is the first time I've encountered acid rain." Princess and Yang Jing stood in the master bedroom on the second floor of the villa, watching the heavy rain outside through a gap.

When a volcano erupts, not only magma and volcanic ash are erupted outward, but also a large amount of gases containing sulfur and chlorine. Under the baptism of heavy rain, this gas will immediately turn into acid rain, which will also cause great damage to the surface.

"Haha, this typhoon is also timely. Otherwise, if a large amount of volcanic ash flew into the stratosphere, the damage to the atmosphere would be almost catastrophic. Thanks to this typhoon, the disaster of volcanic eruption was minimized."

The princess nodded, she agreed with this statement. "But it's really uncomfortable to keep it in the house."

Because of the arrival of the fourth super typhoon, Hegebi, starting yesterday evening, a group of people blocked all the windows of the villa with strong winds close to level 10 with strong wooden boards. Yang Jing had learned through the radio that Hegebi had been upgraded to a super typhoon, and the maximum wind speed might exceed level 17 when landing in the Philippines.

Under such circumstances, the main body of this villa can withstand such a strong typhoon, but the doors and windows will definitely not be preserved, so Yang Jing ordered everyone to take action and seal all the doors and windows of the villa. Four cars outside also drove into the villa's garage. Otherwise, with the strength of the black-glass, there would be no idea where the four cars would be scraped.

"Okay, wait patiently for a day. When we are tomorrow, we will be able to go out. Now that the typhoon has come, if you walk out of this room, a gust of wind can blow you away. I don't want to be a widower..."

"Go to you, where are you cursing me so much?" The princess punched Yang Jing's chest a few times, but he never asked about going. In this kind of weather, going out is really a birthday man hanging himself and living a mess.
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