Do you know how many natural disasters happen all over the world every year? Don’t be surprised when you read this article! The number of natural disasters has been increasing over the decades: an average of 300 natural disasters in the 1980s, 480 in the 1990s and 600 per year in the past 10 years (1). And you will easily recognize that natural disasters are becoming more intense over time. Let me give some examples.
The largest tsunami in the last 40 years occurred in the Indian Ocean on 26 Decth 2004. It was triggered by a seabed earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 and lasted for 600 sec. Then a chain of deadly tsunamis was triggered and dispersed across the Indian Ocean, with waves of hundreds of feet destroying entire coastal communities in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and other neighboring countries. The number of dead was up to 150,000 people, which made this disaster one of the worst natural disasters in the modern world. history According to experts, this next tsunami will reduce the area of a lot of earthquakes in the whole world, including Alaska. (2
In 2007, there were 874 disasters worldwide, 13% higher than in 2006. (3
Especially in 2010, a series of terrible disasters were said to threaten the future of human development and caused very serious consequences. First of all, the unusual droughts have not only seriously affected the lives of 65 million people living along the Mekong River, whose water rate was the lowest in 20 years, but also the Asian waterway has stagnated several important trade routes. In addition, two earthquakes with a magnitude above 10 occurred in Haiti and Chile, the strongest ever, which destroyed the most stable structures in these countries. Their offensives spread throughout Africa and South America, with the number of casualties estimated at 223,000 people and the loss of the two countries up to 30 billion USD. It would be wrong if I remembered to mention the forest fire in Russia in August, 2010. After the hottest heat wave in the history of Russia, the fire started in the Middle and soon spread to the South, which damaged 10-12 million hectares. the woods At the same time, the flood in Pakistan destroyed on a large scale, killed 1,300 people, affected the lives of 20,000 people and caused diseases and several outbreaks of violence. And so on
Can you learn something from this?
We are already in the year 2012, the year predicted by many tribes as the end of the world, theologians, prophets and even scientists. Nature seems to be angry with the world. Have you ever wondered that “The day is coming like the prophecy?”
sources:
(1) & (3): According to “Weather-related disasters dominate” Rock Low: http://vitalsigns.worldwatch.org/vs-trend/weather-related-disasters-dominate
(2): According to “The Biggest Tsunami in History” in National-geographic-channel”>National Geographic News : http:// news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1227_041226_tsunami.html
(4): According to “Top 10 Disasters Around the World in 2010” Nikita Porwal: http://www.techprone.com/top-10-disasters-around-the-world-in-2010
