World's Disasters

Mankind has seen many disasters, taking millions of lives. This is a true, sad, general fact. Putting faces and numbers to such an informations makes a catastrophy hard to grasp for everyone. Three of the most devastating and deadliest tragedies happened in the last 5 years:
1. 2004, December, Tsunami after earthquake , hitting Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, taking 250,000 lives.
2. 2008, May, earthquake, hitting China, costing 88,000 lives.
3. 2010, January, earthquake, hitting Haiti, costing 230,000 lives.
That is more than 1/2 million lives wiped out in just 5 years. As grim and ghoulish as it may sound, it seems as earth and nature reclaim whatever is theirs by these natural disasters...


Tsunami about to land.
(Photo by BBC)

Haiti's Port-au-Prince after the quake.
(Photo by CNN)






China, Sichuan province.
(Photo by BBC)