You may not have heard of the Phlegraean Fields (aka Campi Flegrei), but it’s the site of one of the largest supervolcanoes in (relatively) recent times. Erupting 200 cubic kilometres of magma 39,000 years ago, and still active, it is one of the potential candidates for a supervolcanic event in 2012.

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The most popular subject on our blog has been for a while How To Build A Bunker. With many thousands of hits on this subject coming from Google and other search engines, I thought it would make sense to add an entry here that would address the curiosity and feed the knowledge in this area.

As we all know or at least can imagine, building a bunker can get very expensive and is not for the average person’s budget. But this doesn’t mean you cannot build your own strong enough to resist major catastrophes and obviously those of a smaller scale. Read all about it in the ALL NEW “How To Build A Survival Bunker“.

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In case of nuclear fallout in your region after the global catastrophe in 2012 you should take action immediately and make a plan what you are going to do in the worst case scenario.

Take cover immediately: If you are outside a shelter during a nuclear burst, take cover in a ditch, revetted area, culvert, or a road drainage tunnel. Expedient shelters can be constructed with accessible materials in a relatively short time.
If all else fails, immediately take a prone position. Tightly cover your face with both hands. Do not move until the blast wave has passed completely. Completely means that the incident wave and any reflected blast waves must pass. Preplanning should include protective measures against thermal effects. Anything in direct line of sight to a burst may burn.
Time, distance, and shielding are your best overall protection against residual or delayed radiation hazards. Read the rest of this entry

A lot has been said about the catastrophe upon us in 2012 and what the likely effects of it will be. But where can we hide to withstand the Polar Reversal, the mega-tsunamis, the solar radiation, nuclear destruction, earthquakes and volcanoes?

We are talking about safe zones on our planet during the Polar Shift at Dec 2012. The third location we are going to look at is United States of America.

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You may not have a fallout shelter when warning of approaching fallout is broadcast. Here are some tips on how to increase your protection in a basement. The amount of protection you can build will depend on how much time you have available until fallout arrives.
• You can improvise a small emergency shelter by using furniture, doors, dressers, work-bench and other materials.
• Select a corner of your basement, if possible away from windows, in which to build your shelter. Remove inside house doors from hinges to use as a shelter roof over supports. Supports for the improvised roof can be cabinets, chests of drawers, work-bench, or anything which will bear a heavy load.

Use the house doors as a roof surface to provide a base for the heavy material you will have to place on it. Bricks, concrete blocks, sand-filled drawers or boxes, books or other dense items on the roof will help reduce radiation penetration. Around the sides and front of your shelter build walls of dense materials to provide vertical shielding. A small cabinet or dirt-filled box as may be used as a crawl-in entrance which can be closed behind you.
• Remember, the heavier or more dense the material around you, the greater the protection.
• Block basement windows with earth, bricks, concrete blocks, books or even bundles of newspaper. In winter, use packed snow.
• On the floor above the corner of the you select as your shelter area, pile any heavy objects you may have available, such as furniture, trunks filled with clothes, dirt-filled boxes, books, newspapers, or earth from outside.
• Outside, against above ground walls of the basement around your shelter area heap earth, sand, bricks, concrete blocks or packed snow. Read the rest of this entry

A nuclear explosion releases vast amounts of energy in three forms:
1. Light and heat. 5-megaton H-bomb could substantially damage the largest Canadian city.

2. Blast. You might be injured by being thrown about by the blast; therefore, keep low. The greatest danger is from flying glass, bricks and other debris. The blast from a 5-megaton explosion could injure people as far away as 15 miles.

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