Quakes 'decade's worst disasters'

[babsbunny]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8487798.stm

Almost 60% of the people killed by natural disasters in the past decade lost their lives in earthquakes, a UN-backed report has revealed.


Storms were responsible for 22% of lives lost, while extreme temperatures caused 11% of deaths from 2000 to 2009.

In total, 3,852 disasters killed more than 780,000 people, according to a report by the Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).

[roguevalley]

1. tsunamies are earthquakes evil step sisters.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. You know we're all living on borrowed time here, right?

Every day that goes by without another great Alaskan earthquake, I'm a happy camper.

[EFerrari]

3. Same here. My condo in SF will liquify if the San Andreas goes

and the Hayward fault runs right through the ranch.

[roguevalley]

4. you and me both, blue. I dread the big one but we're about overdue.