Earthquakes – Prove Fatal for Some
The Aquarian Age was heralded with an abundance of hope for a gloriously and improved world. It also came with warning that violent changes would accompany its early period – bringing increased earthquakes and natural disasters as well as numerous social upheavals.
From this time, the last decades show increasingly intense global upheavals but seem gradual enough for us to overlook the fact that predictions are coming to pass in both spheres, social as well as geological.
We hardly be reminded of the most dramatic and disturbing man-caused event of September 11th that brought death to so many in America and the recent tragic event of the great floods in Afghanistan that have displaced millions and destroyed the life of thousands more.
When reflecting upon the number of fatal earthquakes in the final decades of 1990 and this first decade of 2000, we are shocked to realise just how many have been killed in the period.
Since the strongest earthquake yet recorded at 9.5 on the Richter scale that occurred in Chile in May 1960, when entire villages were swept away and people killed by a tsunami 10m high – the following Earthquakes are recorded……
July 1963 Earthquake 6.9 mag. Skopje, Macedonia left 100,000 homeless killed 1,000
May 1970 Earthquake Yungay in Andes mountains caused landslides killing 66,000
December 1972 Earthquake 6.5 in Managua, Nicaragua killed 10,000
July 1976 Earthquake in Tangshan, China reduced the city to rubble and killed 250,000
March 1977 Earthquake in Bucharest , Romania killed 1,500
Sept. 1985 Earthquake Mexico City razed buildings and killed 10,000
Dec. 1988 Earthquake devastated N.W. Armenia and killed 25,000
June 1990 Earthquake in Iran in province of Gilan killed 40,000
Sept 1993 Earthquake in southern Indian villages killed 10,000
Jan 1995 Earthquake in Hyogo Japan in Kobe killed 6,430
May 1995 Earthquake 7.5 hit Sakhalin island – Russians killed 1,989
May 1997 Earthquake 7.1 in eastern Iran killed 1,600
May 1998 Earthquake in northern Afghanistan killed 4,000
Aug 1999 Earthquake 7.4 in Turkey in Istanbul and Izmit- killed 17,000
Sept 1999 Earthquake 7.6 in Taiwan extreme damage killed 2,500
Nov 1999 Earthquake 7.2 in Ducze in N.W. Turkey killed 400
Jan 2001 Earthquake 7.9 in Gujarat, India displaced a million and killed 20,000
Oct 2002 Earthquake in Italy killed a class of children in San Giuliano di Puglia
Feb 2003 Earthquake in Xinjiang China killed more than 260
May 2003 Earthquake in Algeria caused injuring and killing 2000
Dec 2003 Earthquake in Iran destroys city of Bam killing 26,000
Feb 2004 Earthquake struck Morocco killing 500
Dec 2004 Earthquake 9.2 caused tsunami spreading across Asia killing 100’s of thousands
Feb 2005 Earthquake 6.4 in Zara, Iran killed hundreds
March 2005 Earthquake 8.7 off Indonesian island of Nias killed 1,300
Oct. 2005 Earthquake 7.6 Pakistan and Kashmir left millions homeless and killed 73,000
April 2006 6.0 struck western Iran with 1,200 injured and killing 70
May 2006 Earthquake 6.2 hit Java and city Yogyakarta killing 5,700
July 2006 Earthquake 7.7 caused tsunami in Java killing 650
Aug 2007 Earthquake 7.9 undersea in Ica, Peru killed 519
May 2008 Earthquake 7.8 in China Sichuan province injured 370,00 killed 87,000
Oct 2008 Earthquake 6.4 in Pakistani in Baluchistan killed 300
April 2009 Earthquake in Italian city L’Aquila, killed 300
Sept 2009 Earthquake hit Sumatra with number killed was at least 1,000
Jan 2010 Earthquake 7.0 in Haiti struck city killing 230,000
Feb 2010 Earthquake 8.8 hit central Chile killing at least 452
April 2010 Earthquake 6.9 in China – Qinghai province killed 400
Total number of people killed during this time is approximately 1,100,000
There have been many earthquakes with fewer fatalities since this date, of varying intensities. These have been occurring in many countries including places previously not familiar with them, such as Canada and Australia.
This is a sober reminder that our planet is a living entity and we must learn to anticipate future occurrences as we move further into our new era.
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