Earth has just been hit with 3 powerful Earthquakes in a span of less than 2 months. I don’t remember 3 major quakes hitting the globe within 50 days.
First it was Haiti on January 12, 2010 with magnitude 7 that claimed the lives of 220,000 people and fast reaching the 250,000 death toll of Asian Tsunami in 2004. With a population of less than 10 million, that’s more than 2.2 percent of the country’s population wiped out just like that.
Then 6 weeks after that, it was Chile’s turn to hit by an earthquake 500 times more powerful than of Haiti’s. It was 8.8 Magnitude but fortunately there was much less casualty at 279 at this moment. Sadly though properties and infrastructure was badly hit as bridges, buildings and houses were destroyed.
Yesterday it was Taiwan. An earthquake of 6.4 magnitude hit Taiwan in the morning. There are no casualty in the report but 64 people were injured. The quake only resulted in minor damages aside from the factory that caught fire.
So why are these quakes hitting the earth left and right? If you gonna ask a religious person then you probably get “the end of the world is near” answer. If you gonna ask someone that’s not too religious then he or she probably say it’s just a coincidence.
Science on the other hand has the answer. The number of earthquakes for the past 2 months is just the average. There are some big quakes that’s not newsworthy because it happened in the ocean or in the mountains. A powerful quake hit near Japan with a magnitude 7 on February 26, 2010. Another 6.4 quake yesterday rattled the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, but no injuries have been reported. The Haiti and Chile quakes unfortunately were have hit in the population areas were lives and properties are dense.
Whatever the real reason of these quakes, we all need to be prepared. We never know when a big one will hit our area and our first defense is being ready when it comes. So check your house for cracks and vulnerability. Have flashlights that can easily be reach by anyone in your household. If your area is within or under a fault line then I suggest transfer to another place.
Have you watch “Avatar”? It was the great movie in my point of view. There are a lot of natural disasters nowadays. We can’t just move from here to there as the disaster might happen anywhere now. I think we should start to love and protect our earth and nature now. Most of these disasters is because of our greed and selfishness. We cut all the trees. We bomb anyway. We kill everything!
Good point KS Chen. Most of the time, we are the cost of some disasters. Not sure bout Earthquakes tho.
There is no doubt the Earth is rumbling and there is of course the saying that things come in threes. I hope that we have these seismic events behind us.
I hope so Jason…but since I’ve written these article…a couple of big ones hit earth again.
Thanks for providing the scientific reason. Too many people prefer to think about a 2012 scenario instead.
Well I hope Science is correct Anne
I will have to agree man the Earthquakes and everything else have been crazy lately, even noticed a killer Tornado videeo that surfaced last night. Mother nature can do it thats for sure.
P.s. Booo on Comment Luv not working
Yeah I saw that on the news John…sorry about the commentluv, I already submitted a ticket to support.
Earthquakes are indeed ruining our lives. I hope the earthquake in Taiwan would be the last one. =(
Actually, if you are going to base that from the Bible, series of earthquakes don’t mean it’s the end of the world. It means, that God is angry at the countries where these earthquakes happened. Earthquakes is the anger of God biblically speaking.
Whenever I hear about any earthquake in world,I feel very bad because I had already experience one earthquake and that was very bad experience for me.Even today sometimes I wake up in night as I feel fear about it.You have given some good information about earthquake in world.
Hopefully the earth has released enough pressure for awhile.