Alternity - List of events in 2001


 * January 1 - Scientists discover that solar flares are melting the Earth' s core, possibly causing a series of major natural disasters to strike in 2012.
 * January 2 - The world' s governments race to build underground shelters. The construction should last 10 years.
 * January 3 - After spending billions of dollars on dozens of shelters and other things, the governments are ready to build them.
 * January 6 - Scientists send a massive core driller into the Earth' s core, to find out why its melting.
 * February 12 - The core driller returns to Earth, severely burnt and melted.
 * February 21 - A earthquake happens in the volcano ravaged city of Pompei, Italy at magnitude 7.0. It caused the volcano to erupt and send a 10 kilometer high ash cloud into the atmosphere.
 * February 22 - Harvard creates the new Harvard Earthquake Scale, making measuring major quakes easily.
 * February 28 - Hurricane Omega makes landfall on the Colombian Coast as a Category 5, with winds of 175 mph.
 * March 10 - The first shelter is complete. There are 500 more to go.
 * March 29 - The biggest solar eruptions ever recorded send millions of tiny particles called neutrinos into the Earth' s core, and speed the melting up.
 * March 30 - An earthquake at magnitude 10.1 happens on the Japanese island of Yokohama. The quake split the island and made it sink. A tsunami was triggered.
 * April 6 - Hurricane Beatrice makes landfall on Florida as a major Category 4.
 * April 20 - A tsunami strikes the Florida coast after an 8.5 quake was recorded underwater.
 * May 3 - The first space hotel has been set in orbit around the Earth. It orbits around 530 km (350 miles) above the planet's surface.
 * June 12 - Mount Everest grows at an unprecedented rate of 6 cm per month.
 * June 16 - Simon Lynch flies to Florida with Art Jeffries to DisneyLand Orlando. They soon realise that the park has been destroyed by vandals.
 * December 20 - After almost a year, the first 100 shelters are built.
 * December 24 - The Christmas Eve storm, or Hurricane Robert made landfall on the US East Coast, triggering lots of snow and lightning.
 * December 31 - A massive nor 'easter forms from the remnants of Hurricane Robert. The Nor'easter totally paralizes the East Coasts with thunder, lightning and snow.