natural disasters
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- superbaka
i hear people say this is the world's largest natural disaster. here are some stats i found in the world almanac, for comparison :
date - location - deaths
floods/tsunami
1887 - china - 900,000
1931 - china - 3.7 million
1939 - n. china- 200,000cyclone
1970 - bangladesh - 300,000
1991 - bangladesh - 139,000earthquakes
1920 - china - 200,000
1923 - japan - 143,000
1927 - china - 200,000
1976 - china - 255,000
- liquid0
damn china gets it bad ......wtf
- warheros0
interesting.
- tm230
argghh statistics about death suck ! :(
the worth is that nobody can't do nothing against natural disasters.
the nature is stronger.
- superbaka0
they are rough, but man can use his mind to create technology to fend against her. the average earthquake here in LA would kill untold thousands in india.
- ConspiraCBrotha0
well china has so many ppl I guess it's just population control... oh that was wrong of me...
- f1point70
that was wrong.
- joelski0
Tsnami is really sad...155,000+ die by a natural disaster is terrible....whats even more sad is looking at mankind has been responsible for more deaths that could had been stopped....history where hitler, pol pot, sadam, etc....makes me think how fucked our world is even without natural disasters. If we can't stop man kind from being fucked up what hope do we have in stoppin mother nature.
joelski
(Jan 3 05, 01:41)
- rabattski0
dude you can't stop mother nature. why do you want to stop mother nature anyways? the only thing we can do is to build early warning systems and be more educated about this matter.
just read a story of a 11 year old english girl who knew and recognized a tsunami because she just learned about it in school. she warned everybody there on that beach to leave asap and seek higher ground. no one was killed or injured.
- joelski0
yeah didn't mean stopping I guess...more or like protect us selves from mother nature...I find the whole thing really sad...but then I look at history and see that we are worse...and yet we can prevent our actions.
- usrper0
i thought it was the quake of chile in the 20's
- rabattski0
you can't really compare it imo.
thing is, some parts / countries have tsunami warning systems. japan having the most advanced ones (they also have underware wavebreakers at most harbours). and if i'm not mistaken thailand has some as well, unfortunately not where it happened. it's all about money though why they aren't there. so it's more due to greediness.
- rabattski0
underware? what? i meant underwater! god i need more coffee.
- usrper0
you got me curious..
- rabattski0
underware waterbreakers. hmmm... sounds quite perverted. possible freud maybe.
- superbaka0
its due to political-economic systems that dont embrace a free market and scientific thinking, not greedyness. where would our money come from in the first place? notice that the regions of the world that embrace faith and mysticism, and collective rights are the least technologically evolved and therefore are also the most defenseless from nature.
another interesting statistic - the regions of the world that have the most pollution also have the longest life spans.
- superbaka0
oh.. and yeah, they have lotsa waterbreaker underware vending machines in tokyo. :)
- rabattski0
last one i really need to see some proof on. i recall costa rica having one on the longest life spans. hardly any pollution at all there. and there are more countries like that.
no it's greedyness. why invest in something that occurs every 100 years? thailand has some, but on the other side. wouldn't call indonesia or india least technologically evolved btw.