EARTHQUAKES

It is a quirk of human nas that when things are bad we do not remember them as having been so bad before.  I thought there were more earthquakes than ever before in a year but have come to realize that is probably not so.  It is just that the world has gotten so small, we get instant media coverage and feel as though we are seeing what we have never seen before (probably true but not that it hasn't happened before).

There is a wonderful site that lists twenty years of world earthquakes, location, and numbers killed by them.
Click here.

It proves that no place is really safe in this world from the dangers that Nature offers.  We suffer avalanches, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, lightning, mudslides, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and wildfires.  National  Geographic has described these pictorially exceptionally graphically.  For example, wildfires:  There are three conditions that need to be present in order for a wildfire to burn, which firefighters refer to as the fire triangle: fuel, oxygen, and a heat source.


For anyone who is interested in all of them, read this article.