Natural Disaster 1

Don’t you feel that there are a lot of unexpected natural disaster happened recently?
Why it can be happened? It is because the earth is sick and calling us!!!!
Let me review some of that,


Tsunami
Dec. 26, 2004, 9.0 magnitude earthquake—the largest earthquake occurred. The earthquake triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean. More than 226,000 died and twelve countries felt the devastation.

http://news.sina.com.cn/z/sumatraearthquake/index.shtml









Snow Storm in China
This only happened recently in Chinese New year. A big snow storm happened in China. The unusually low temperatures, ice and heavy snow have continued to plague 20 out of 31 provinces of China since 10 January. This is China's worst winter storms in five decades. The storms have caused economic losses of $3 billion.
湖南郴洲 have no water and electric for ten days.

http://www.chinatravelguide.com/ctgwiki/2008_China_Snowstorm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-B9ZN7zRU






Mexico flood (More than a million affected by floods in southern Mexico)

Nov. 3 2007, heavy rains and flooding have forced hundreds of thousands of people from homes in southern Mexico's state of Tabasco. Almost 80% of the Tabasco was flooding. The flooding was caused by a cold front that brought five days of torrential rain
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9Pnm_aUCKDOmq-RwCiqaajozzqw
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7074271.stm




2007 South Asian floods
The 2007 South Asian floods are a series of floods in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh between July 3 and August 15 2007
By August 3, approximately twenty million had been displaced and by August 10, some 30 million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal had been affected by flooding and more than 2,000 would die in the floods.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6927389.stm





Earthquake in Peru
An 8.0 magnitude temblor hit the central coast of the South American nation on Aug. 15, leaving more than 500 people dead and 1,366 injured, and more than 50,000 homes destroyed. Much of the worst damage occurred in the city of Pisco, which was 80% destroyed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Peru_earthquake
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081600426.html



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