W for world disasters

There have been many world disasters over the years, that we cannot prevent. The most common world disasters include floods, earthquakes, tsunami's and famine's. These disasters are made by the Earth itself. Most commonly floods and famine's are caused by weather, and earthquakes are caused by the movement of rocks underground. When some of these rocks break this causes the earthquake, moving the ground above. A tsunami is caused by movement deep under the ocean, such as an earthquake, volcano or a landslide. Most commonly earthquakes, the eathquake needs to be at least 7.0 on the richter scale. The earthquake usually causes some oceanic or continental plates to rise, making very big waves.

Some recent disasters in the past 20 years. These are some events. In 1990 a 7.7 earthquake hit northwest Iran, which killed at least 50 000. In 1991 Bangladesh suffered a flood which resulted in 139 000 deaths. 1995-98 a famine and flood occured in North Korea resulting in over 3 million dead. Iran, 2003 an earquake happened killing 26 271 people. An earthquake, 9.0 and the resulting tsunami, one of the WORST world disasters. It majorly affected Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Maldives, Somalia, Tanzania, Seychelles, Bangladesh and Andaman. This tragedy resulted in 285 000 deaths. The most recent disaster was in Haiti. This earthquake so far has killed 100 000 and still counting.

It is so sad that these terrible events happen and humans cannot do anything about it. So many families have been ripped apart from these disasters. One of the worst things about these things is that these tsunami's and earthquakes hit some of the poorest places in the world. Such as Haiti, they were one of the poorest places in the world with barely anything and then get a disaster such as this. People all over are helping people in Haiti and are still helping. Canada is a big donor to relief efforts all over the world.