HeyJaredDisastrous History
Let's talk severe weather and disasters of history- what caused them, and how they've shaped the regulations of the world today.
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We're Trying to Have Our Wildfires and Eat Them Too (opens the original)
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Japan Mall Explosion Post Earthquake (opens the original)
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This explosion in a Japanese mall about an hour after the major earthquake there last week has been fascinating. It is pretty much confirmed to be a gas explosion but let’s walk through the evidence we have as if we didn’t know that already. There’s the potential for four different causes here:CollapseIED of some sortDust ExplosionGas ExplosionStarting with the theory of collapse we have almost no supporting evidence. The shaking had been over for an hour, which doesn’t nec
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