[HN Gopher] Days Since Incident - tracker of natural disasters o...
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Days Since Incident - tracker of natural disasters on Earth
Author : ChrisArchitect
Score : 135 points
Date : 2022-09-29 10:47 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| kareemm wrote:
| Cool idea. Looks like there's a problem with the data though. The
| last cat 2 hurricane was Fiona, which has just petered out in the
| North Atlantic after ripping through my city five days ago.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| Fiona hit category 4?
| grizzlypolaire wrote:
| The fact that the "1" symbol is not aligned with the 7 segment
| display is bothering me more than it should but otherwise this is
| pretty cool.
| imdsm wrote:
| More stuff to worry about. My favourite!
| loonster wrote:
| For me it had a calming effect. Natural disasters appear to be
| relatively common
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| Hasn't it just been 1 day since a Cat 4 hurricane? it says 6.
| deathanatos wrote:
| Yeah. I posted this on another such thread, but the date it is
| using is apparently the date the storm was declared a tropical
| depression. This isn't a reasonable interpretation, if you ask
| me. If you ask a human who was just hunkered down in a closet
| in FL trying to ride out Ian "how many days since the last Cat
| 4?" their answer is _going_ to be "One."
| bovermyer wrote:
| 6 days since it _started_.
| excalibur wrote:
| But it wasn't a Cat 4 six days ago.
| daveslash wrote:
| Note: The site claims to track "incidents", not "disasters". The
| word "disaster" is only here in the HN title.
|
| Speaking of incidents that are _not_ disasters... there was a
| 633ft high tsunami in Alaska in 2015 that I never heard of!?
| _Wow...._. Some of these incidents are really interesting to read
| up on, despite them having gotten little or no news coverage at
| the time.
| technothrasher wrote:
| It also lists nuclear incidents, so it's also not limited to
| natural events as per the HN title.
| yccs27 wrote:
| Was a bit confused that "Category n Hurricane" means exactly cat
| n, whereas "Magnitude m Earthquake" seems to mean at least
| magnitude m.
| deathanatos wrote:
| Not even that, really? It claims "6 days since last Cat 4
| Hurricane", yet yesterday a Cat 4 was bearing down on Florida.
| The date used on that one seems to be the day Ian became an
| official tropical depression ... not the last day it was a Cat
| 4.
| wjnc wrote:
| "In probability theory and statistics, the exponential
| distribution is the probability distribution of the time between
| events in a Poisson point process, i.e., a process in which
| events occur continuously and independently at a constant average
| rate." [1]
|
| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution
| RugnirViking wrote:
| a tsunami of 0.09m tall hardly qualifies as a "disaster" surely?
|
| https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-m...
| sjinta wrote:
| but it still ended up killing 2 people. I have a hard time
| imagining how that works.
| antonymy wrote:
| Even if the wave isn't very tall, if it is fast-moving it can
| knock you off balance. Once you're down, wave doesn't have to
| be very tall to drown you. There's also the fact that rip
| currents are commonplace phenomena on beaches all over the
| world, so you combine that with a single unexpectedly fast
| wave and it's easy to believe a few people would die.
| sojournerc wrote:
| but, is a rip current a natural disaster? Natural, sure,
| but to me it's a regular phenomenon, similar to a small
| tsunami
| shortstuffsushi wrote:
| According to the "quick bulletin" on the bottom, this seems
| to be a downstream effect of a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that
| occurred. I suppose that will generally be the case for a
| tsunami, something usually drives it. In this case, it
| appears they're assigning 0 deaths (or stats) to the tsunami,
| but 2 deaths for the "total effects."
| svnpenn wrote:
| yeah what the hell, that is like 4 inches
| InsomniacL wrote:
| I've searched but the only reference to this list being of
| 'disasters' is in this HackerNews subject.
|
| Many of the other items would not be considered disasters too.
| jhardy54 wrote:
| Sorry, where do you see this called a "disaster"?
| shortstuffsushi wrote:
| The site linked in the post list these as natural disasters
| bumby wrote:
| It also lists Fukushima as a "natural" disaster so the
| usage is a bit liberal
| smm11 wrote:
| Mudslides (from wildfires) caused by the hurricane that 'hit'
| Southern California a few weeks back presumably killed at least
| one person - that person is still missing in Forest Falls.
|
| Maybe a mudslides/landslides category?
| adwn wrote:
| > _Days since Gravitational Wave Detected_
|
| "One of these is not like the others..."
| importantbrian wrote:
| As someone who just went through Ian using the date it became a
| tropical depression seems wrong. It was a Cat 4 yesterday when it
| made landfall and it was a Cat 1, 2, and 3 storm before and after
| that.
| f1shy wrote:
| Interesting. But it would depress me...
| jabroni_salad wrote:
| neal.unfun
| mayormcmatt wrote:
| "Well it's between 600 and 750 days since the event..."
| https://youtu.be/22mt0cVyW5c
| bovermyer wrote:
| My brain can't even conceive of a teraton asteroid impact.
| Wouldn't that be world-ending?
| stickfigure wrote:
| Merely species-ending. It's hard to end planetary bodies.
| [deleted]
| jedgardyson wrote:
| dashboard for the end of days
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