Top 10 Scariest Natural Disasters

When you see a tsunami, you won't have Aquaman to save you. You're screwed, and that's that. You will either drown, be killed by aquatic animals in the floodwaters, be impaled by debris or shards of remaining parts of buildings and other objects, be knocked out, or die from the aftermath of flooding and debris. There's a 96% chance that you will die. The other 4% rarely occurs. So if you see a 10-story tsunami hurtling towards you, you could try to run, but I doubt you'd get very far before it sweeps you off your feet.

It can happen without warning. Buildings collapse, and people run through the streets. Other disasters can result from it. It causes the tsunamis and landslides that have killed hundreds of thousands. The 2004 tsunami was caused by a magnitude 9 earthquake. There are also fires that rage due to destroyed gas lines. You can't escape because roads have been destroyed, electricity goes out, and you can't get running water because pipes are damaged. Downed power lines pose a hazard. There's rubble and glass in the streets, and you might be trapped under it. And it gets worse as smaller earthquakes, called aftershocks, follow.

Hurricanes are the deadliest natural disaster ever. Tornadoes have the highest wind speeds, but hurricanes have the most power. Look at these two hurricanes: Odile had a deadlier storm surge than any other hurricane, and Katrina was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. This should be #1!

When there was a hurricane in 2012, I was on vacation. My dad was driving fast so we could get home. I turned around and saw the hurricane, but it was far from us and brown.

These monsters always ravage the Florida coast every late summer and early autumn. Thanks to them, I now suffer from PTSD but am too broke to move out of this dangerous state.

Someone did survive a tornado by hanging on to a fence. However, most of the time, if you are within the vicinity of a tornado and not inside a basement or windowless shelter, you will likely be swept off your feet. I personally think tornadoes are the scariest since I live in a state where many tornadoes occur. You can predict them, and there are sirens to alert you and news reports, but it's still terrifying.

The strange thing about a tornado is that it moves in a very odd pattern. If you live in a suburban neighborhood, the house next to you could be destroyed into thousands of pieces, then the house in front of yours could be destroyed, and then the house on the other side of yours could be destroyed. I've seen news reports of neighborhoods where this has occurred. Never underestimate a tornado because, even if it was an F1, it could quickly develop into something much worse. Always be alert when there is a tornado.

It's not just the lava that's deadly. The aftermath is also dangerous. You have time to evacuate before the volcano erupts, but once it does, the lava can flow for miles, burning everything in its path. I've seen cocoons of people covered in ash and tar. Even if you escape, the gases and radiation from the volcano can be more deadly than the lava itself. The gases are primarily water vapor, which isn't dangerous on its own, but when it combines with carbon dioxide, it can spread for miles, suffocating everything in its path. The vapor can also mix with hydrogen fluoride, which is even more deadly. So, even when you think you're safe, remember that these gases can spread over vast distances.

I swam through the 1,000-year flood in Louisiana in 2016. Most terrifying thing ever. I remember watching water snakes and alligators slide through the water from my window. Then my house flooded, and I had to swim through it.

Even if you don't drown and you dread the waters, the flow of the rapids could swallow you under, debris could impale you, or you could get attacked by a ten-foot gator or snake.

Sinkholes seem like the most excruciating deaths you could experience in a natural disaster. Tsunamis can drown you, and it takes approximately three minutes to die when drowning. Sinkholes, on the other hand, sound far worse. Just the thought of suddenly being swallowed up by the ground and closed inside the earth, where you quickly suffocate and slowly die. It's already your own grave.

There is a story of a man who was chilling at home when, all of a sudden, a sinkhole opened up in the middle of his bedroom. His brother rushed there, and as the man was sinking into the sinkhole, his brother tried to save him - to no avail. The man emitted his final screams, and his body was never found, despite numerous attempts.

Bro, how do you even survive it? Like, impossible.

You can't use an umbrella, so duck for cover. Oh wait, you're already dead.

Would you be happy if a huge jumble of rocks was crashing down right behind you and you had no way to stop it? Didn't think so.

Can rip through forests at crazy speeds.

The radiation from the asteroid could poison and suffocate anything nearby, including plants, animals, and possibly humans. It killed the dinosaurs, which could withstand injuries and chemicals better than we can, but it still killed them. Thanks to modern technology, I think we'd be able to spot if there was an asteroid hurtling towards Earth.

It killed the dinosaurs, so we should be more afraid of this than tsunamis or earthquakes! (Not to mention meteors manipulate other natural disasters.)

In certain regions, blizzards are so bad that you can't even see more than 4 or 5 meters in front of you.

There is a theory that a gamma ray burst from a star light-years away may have caused one of the biggest mass extinctions in this planet's history during the Ordovician period. If one were to hit us right now, we'd be toast, literally.

Probably not going to happen for thousands, maybe millions of years, but if it did, it would be terrifying!

If this happens, literally all of us will be dead in a matter of seconds.

This should be number one. If you give Donald Trump a pandemic, he uses it to destroy the country. "You don't need me to tell you everything is a mess. Donald Trump is destroying our country..." - Billie Eilish.

When epidemics reach greater proportions, you get a pandemic. Most disasters are scary enough, but few have the power to wipe out all of humanity like a pandemic does.

I have a crazy fear of lightning because I think it will kill me with fire! I don't understand how everyone else acts so calm when there's a thunderstorm, even though I know that hardly any people are killed by it.

Have you seen pictures of this? Even if it's not life-threatening, it's scary as... heck.

Deadly, but there's a 1/700,000 chance of being struck, and even if you do get struck, you can survive. (I don't know how people manage to survive a 50,000 Fahrenheit temperature, which is many times higher than lava!)

Imagine hiking a mountain, the blazing sun shining on your forehead, and your walking stick knocks down small pebbles. Then, a faint rumbling sound is heard, growing louder and louder. Suddenly, you see millions of boulders tumbling your way. Imagine the sinking feeling of knowing that is your last moment on Earth.

I've seen a couple of these, been past a few, and escaped from one in California. It was terrible. Dust everywhere, rocks still falling right in front of our car.

A solar flare is a natural space disaster when the sun releases massive amounts of energy, damaging electrically powered machinery, satellites, and other spacecraft.