Oct 3 2018

Unpreventable Disaster

Recently there have been several natural disasters in Asia. Last month Philippine was seriously hurt by typhoon, over two hundred persons dead and tens of thousands homeless, with millions of properties destroyed.
In Japan last month, typhoon hit Osaka and the airport was closed for few days. Human losses were not serious, but thousands of houses were destroyed by typhoon. Also, Hokkaido was seriously hurt by typhoon, huge losses in property were suffered. It will take few months to recover.
But, very recently a week ago, Indonesia got earthquake in some province. More seriously Tsunami happened after earthquake. Some seashore villages were wiped away by waves. Up to now, over one thousand people died, number still increasing. Many tens of thousands of people now are homeless and in hunger. It is a great disaster in peace time.
But, considering in Chain, ten years ago, earthquake happened in Sichuan, a small city completed destroyed with over one hundred thousand people died and wounded. Also, in last century, an earthquake occurred in Tangshan, China, and a city was destroyed and one hundred fifty thousand people died. This news astonished the whole world.