On 10 April 1996, as Tropical Cyclone Olivia passed, an anemometer on Barrow Island, off Australia, recorded a gust of 408 km/h. Verified by the World Meteorological Organization, it remains the strongest ever measured outside a tornado. Winds in the most violent tornadoes, estimated by radar, can go even higher.
On 27 August 1883, the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa was heard as far away as Rodrigues Island, nearly 4,800 km away. Its pressure wave was picked up by barometers worldwide and circled the globe several times. The tsunamis that followed killed more than 36,000 people.
The deepest known point in the ocean, Challenger Deep, lies roughly 10,900 m below the Pacific surface. Drop Everest in and its summit would still sit about 2 km underwater. Down there, the pressure is more than 1,000 times what you feel at sea level, roughly a tonne pressing on every square centimetre.