Are there any disasters that could be forecasted?

Answer 1

All natural disasters are very destructive, and all may cause billions of dollars of damage. However, the disaster that claims more lives annually than any other natural disaster is the tornado.

Answer 2

Nobody has been able to predict earthquakes reliably enough and over short enough time scales to allow the evacuation of threatened cities. Some scientists say that so many factors decide whether a fault will rupture that earthquakes could be unpredictable.

One basic idea behind quake prediction is that faults send out subtle but detectable warnings before they slip. Scientists have looked at a host of potential warning signals, or "precursors," including foreshocks, weird animal behavior, and changes in the water table, stream flow, well levels, and patterns of electrical currents in the ground.

Droughts

Predicting drought depends on our ability to forecast precipitation and temperature. Scientists don't know how to predict drought a month or more in advance for most parts of the world.

Scientists are studying how interacting weather events, or teleconnections, can influence the formation of various regional and global weather patterns. Because these patterns tend to be repeated, studying their occurrence can help us improve our ability to predict changes in climate, particularly in the tropics.

Floods

Several types of data can be collected to assist hydrologists predict when and where floods might occur. The first and most important is monitoring the amount of rainfall occurring on a realtime (actual) basis. Second, monitoring the rate of change in river stage on a realtime basis can help indicate the severity and immediacy of the threat. Third, knowledge about the type of storm producing the moisture, such as duration, intensity, areal extent, etc., is valuable for determining possible severity of the flooding. And fourth, knowledge about the characteristics of a river's drainage basin, such as soil-moisture conditions, ground temperature, snowpack, topography, vegetation cover, impermeable land area, etc., can help to predict how extensive and damaging an impending flood might become.

Answer 3

Natural disasters are seldom very predictable. You may know that a particular region is vulnerable to earthquake, or hurricane, etc., but you don't really know when the earthquake, hurricane etc. will happen, nor do you know how powerful it will be.

Answer 4

It can be very difficult to predict earthquakes. A major meteor strike can also be difficult to predict. Some volcanic eruptions are hard to predict. Landslides are hard to predict. Avalanches are hard to predict.

Answer 5

Hurricanes, due to pressure and cloud structure over the ocean.

Answer 6

Winter storms can be better predicted than other natural disasters.

Answer 7

something spontaneous that affects a large amount of people; and of course occurs naturally.

i.e: a volcano, a tsunami, an earthquake, tornado, flood or a landslide.

Answer 8

There are various types of natural disasters, which include hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, forest fires, and swarms of locusts. Some of these are predictable and some are not.