Days Since Incident (2022)

99 points by throwaway_08932 1 year ago | 28 comments
  • dang 1 year ago
    Related:

    Days Since Incident – tracker of natural disasters on Earth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018771 - Sept 2022 (38 comments)

    • pockybum522 1 year ago
      Why does category 5 hurricane not also constitute a category 2 hurricane. Seems silly to differentiate by what level they end up at when a cat 5 has also, by definition, made it to cat 2 at some point.

      Other than that, this is fun.

      • Beardy 1 year ago
        I think it makes sense to differentiate them, just as you would differentiate them if it was displayed as a graph of "number of hurricanes by category". If you only include the highest category, you miss out on data that might also be useful, for instance whether there have been more category 1 hurricanes compared to category 5.

        If it didn't differentiate them and the last category 5 hurricane was 110 days ago but the last category 1 hurricane was 2 days ago, how would you learn about the category 1 hurricane? In your example it would just show hurricane categories 1-5 sequentially all bunched together, so you'd also be duplicating data which wouldn't be that useful.

        • thewarpaint 1 year ago
          Implicitly what it’s saying is: “Hurricane reaching a maximum category of X”
          • guhcampos 1 year ago
            That was my assumption, too, but the website shows 110 days since the last cat 5 but 114 days since the last cat 2, and they're not the same event.

            More than that: the last cat 5 is "Otis" while the last cat 2 is "Tammy". AFAIK they are named in alphabetical order?

            Something seems fishy in this dataset.

        • adamfeldman 1 year ago
          The purpose of this hurricane rating scale is to "provide some indication of the potential damage and flooding a hurricane will cause upon landfall." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir%E2%80%93Simpson_scale
          • guhcampos 1 year ago
            Came here to ask the same thing. I always assumed a higher class necessarily was a lower class before. Curious.
          • j-j-j-j 1 year ago
            I'm curious how is this being updated.
            • Oarch 1 year ago
              Isn't there a volcanic eruption happening Iceland right now? I think that one is already out of date.
            • Etheryte 1 year ago
              Every section has an information button which says where the data is sourced from.
              • SamBam 1 year ago
                I think the question may have been more about method of updating.

                I know the USGS websites have great API support, and I imagine the NASA solar flare reporting does as well, so I expect most of this is automatic.

                The ones going to Wikipedia articles must be done by hand, so those will stop being updated when Neal gets bored of updating.

              • tutfbhuf 1 year ago
                Any seasoned engineer would hardcode the values at the bottom of the page.
              • bloopernova 1 year ago
                There are 500 metre high Megatsunami? O_O

                Sure, sure, don't worry about it, but being told that the tsunamis in The Abyss could be real? Good lord that is shocking to me.

                Some of the effects of a wave like that can be read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and...

                "Over 30 million cubic meters of rock fell from a height of several hundred meters into the bay, creating the megatsunami."

                • cangeroo 1 year ago
                  Is there one for Boeing also?
                  • annoyingnoob 1 year ago
                    What constitutes a volcanic eruption? Thinking about Iceland right now.
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                    • croisillon 1 year ago
                      i wish there was an additional line with each (known) previous incident
                      • throwawayai2 1 year ago
                        I like the design of this site, but honestly these are things just not worth worrying about.
                        • justusthane 1 year ago
                          I'm fairly certain the point of this page isn't to worry about these events. Knowing the type of things Neal builds (you should definitely explore his other stuff), it's likely just for fun, and an interesting way to present this information.