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Natural or man made Disasters.

     Certain call them"Natural Disasters" and from Man's point of view perhaps they are however Mother Nature has been at it for over 4 billion years now and its called "Evolution". So when people build settlements in dried out river beds, or on water fronts that were once mangrove swamps, and the settlements are then swept away in Flash floods or Tsunamis we call it a "Natural Disaster, a calamity, a catastrophe".
Of course it's a disaster but it is also to be expected and could be avoided if certain measures were taken, so why build, or allow to be built, settlements in river beds in Santa Domingo and then have to lament the death of 500 victims when the next flash flood occurs!!! Why build Fabalas that cling to muddy hillsides in Rio or Sao Paolo that disintegrate every time it rains or build villages, under the water level of the Ganges in Bangladesh or on the island of Phuket, Thailand.

     Those are 03rd World examples but the same problem exists in Europe in the Alps. Corridors have been cleared for skiers where before there where trees that acted as natural barriers against avalanches destroying villages or the Flash floods in France and Italy because housing estates or camping sides were, knowingly, allowed to be built in floodable zones. The list is long and the reason is always the same. Man thought he could master Nature but Nature has a habit of foiling Man's plans, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, wrote Robbie Burns.

     Helas human activity is a another cause of natural disasters and calamities. In an effort to understand severe natural climatic or geological hazards certain countries now have the technology to re-create calamities such as Hurricanes or earthquakes.
     Conspiracy specialists are starting to voice the theory that the Dec 26th earthquake was a man made simulation gone wrong and that one these numerous countries was trying to artificially re-create an earthquake. This theory is given a certain credibility as although Indonesia is on the Western rim of the "Ring of fire"* the Island of Sumatra has itself never experience an earthquake of such a magnitude. In fact one of the reasons why the Indian ocean does not have a protection system as exists in the Pacific ocean, is because the seismic activity in the Indian ocean is minimum, verging on the non-existent!
* As Indonesia is part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire" The Japanese PTWS centre duly registered the seismic activity off Sumatra before the quake actually occurred. The only problem was that they had no pre-established contact in or around the Indian ocean basin to warn of the forthcoming calamity.

     Other man made sources of Tsunamis can be attributed to undersea drilling that may accidentally trigger seismic activity or underwater nuclear testing such as the French nuclear testings in the South Pacific before they were "Officially" stopped in the mid 1990s.

© N.Richards 11/2004 & 11/2007