The results of these efforts are remarkable. Within five years, individuals were back in homes they owned, often on their original land, in communities with new schools and in many cases improved infrastructure.

The government has estimated that rehabilitation and reconstruction in the quake devastated province of West Sumatra will cost Rp 7 trillion (US$745 million).

The total economic cost of damage was estimated at US$ 9.4 billion.

In terms of absolute total of human health effects, the most harmful event is tornadoes, followed by excessive heat and floods. However, the most harmful events in terms of fatalities and injuries per event are tsunamis and hurricanes/typhoons.

Tornadoes and other severe storms have killed 1,380 people during the same time span, making tornadoes the second-deadliest U.S. natural disaster. Earthquakes have killed 70 people in the U.S. from 1990 through 2016, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The Great Galveston Storm of 1900 An estimated 6,000 to 8,000 people perished in the storm, the single deadliest in U.S. history.

Volcanic lightning is a spectacular but rare phenomenon which comes after a volcano erupts. The process has been documented for thousands of years, most notably when Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79.

Taal certainly created lots of lightning. That’s likely because the plume reached so high into the freezing atmosphere that water ejected during the eruption turned into little ice particles, which also started colliding and creating static electricity, explained Behnke.

Alert Level 3 (Magmatic Unrest) now prevails over Taal Volcano.

Electrical discharges can form awesome shows during eruptions. Lightning can strike the ground and be a hazard to life, but it most commonly is only a hazard to communications and to human anxieties, for the lightning occurs between clouds and from the eruption column to the crater. …

An average bolt of negative lightning carries an electric current of 30,000 amperes (30 kA), and transfers 15 coulombs of electric charge and 1 gigajoule of energy. Large bolts of positive lightning can carry up to 120 kA and 350 C.

When You See Lightning, Count The Time Until You Hear Thunder. If That Is 30 Seconds Or Less, The Thunderstorm Is Close Enough To Be Dangerous – Seek Shelter (if you can’t see the lightning, just hearing the thunder is a good back-up rule). Wait 30 Minutes Or More After The Lightning Flash Before Leaving Shelter.

In fact, lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun). …

Electricity is everywhere, even in the human body. Our cells are specialized to conduct electrical currents. Resting cells are negatively charged on the inside, while the outside environment is more positively charged. This is due to a slight imbalance between positive and negative ions inside and outside the cell.

“You can charge your phone using your body electricity by making a capacitor using items commonly found in your pocket. You need two silver coins, a paper clip, a piece of paper, your charging cable and of course your phone. The paper clip is to connect inside of your usb connector to the outer plate of the capacitor.

Originally Answered: Could a human control electricity? Yes.

Humans give off mostly infrared radiation, which is electromagnetic radiation with a frequency lower than visible light. “Thermal radiation” is all the electromagnetic waves given off by an object because of its temperature, and includes radio waves, infrared waves, and even visible light.