By Lee Davis
Bargains a survey of the traditional calamities that experience altered the process human background. This reference beneficial properties nearly six hundred entries equipped via catastrophe variety, then alphabetized by way of the identify of the rustic during which the development happened. It additionally bargains perception into the historical past of every occasion and its effect on mankind and the surroundings.
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Thousands of homeless refugees were then subjected to a mixture of rain and sleet that fell on the ravaged countryside after the quakes fi nally subsided. Millions of dollars in aid and supplies were flown into Chile from 35 countries. Eventually, this would allow Chile to rebuild, but not before 100,000 Chileans, some of them berserk and hungry enough to commit cannibalism and murder, rioted for crusts of bread and containers of milk. Men fought knife duels, and the police and the army fi red into the hysterical mobs.
The fi nal count: 4,000 dead and many thousands injured and/or homeless. on the west, and on the north by several former Soviet states, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. In the best of times and weather, communication is minimal between the scattered villages clinging to the sides of mountains and nestled within ranges of hills. Into this mix of misery, the fi rst of two major earthquakes struck the northeastern province of Takhar, and particularly the city of Rustaq, at 7:37 in the evening of February 4, 1998.
So, although details are missing, and only a dispassionate list survives, it seems indisputable that the worst earthquake in terms of loss of life in all of recorded history took place on February 2, 1556, in an immense territory of Shensi (Shaanxi) Province in central China, along the valley of the Wei River, a tributary of the Huang River. A staggering total of 820,000 people perished in this cataclysm. And that is all that is known about it. would have buried the remainder of the population of the village if two bodies of earth hadn’t collided just above the village and formed a natural dam that contained the rest of the landslide.