Sunday, December 16, 2007

Disasterous

During my geography class, my teacher told me that Malaysia was one of the safest country to stay in as there is no natural disaster that will causes harm to us...All this seem true until lately where more and more disaster seem to turn to Malaysia. It seem that the mother earth is trying to take away Malaysia.

The recent flood which is still happening in Malaysia had already kills few life and will continue worsening for days to come. Johore which had never flood had its record broke last year when 4 district in Johore is flooded. Up to date almost all state is in danger of flood if rain will be pouring down for another few weeks.

The disaster that struck Malaysia and neighbouring country on 26 December 2004, was one of the most unimaginable disaster. The TSUNAMI. It kills thousand and thousand of life and Malaysia which claimed to be the safest country had not be able to escape in that disaster.

Mount Kinabalu which was once a volcano and was no longer active is another point that might be dangerous. We won't know when will it be active as we can't really tell what happen on the stomach of our mother earth

Weeks ago, Bukit Tinggi felt a medium tremor average on 3.0 to 3.7 Ricther. Only then the country geologist reveal that Malaysia was in 'Pacific Fire Ring' but was in the area of inactive line. The earthquake line was no longer active for few thousand of years. However, it does show that there is some sign of activeness after the big earthquake during tsunami..In some area in Sabah, small tremor always happen and it was a normal things in some of those area. It does not harm anything or human itself.

3 Most deathly natural disaster in Malaysia will be the tsunami which kills about 35 people, Tropical Storm Greg which kills 266 people in 1996 and 1988 flood in northern that kills 386 of Thailand and Malaysia citizen...

Here goes the Top 10 most deathly disaster.

Rank Event Location Date Death Toll (Estimate)
1. 1931 Yellow River flood China summer 1931 1,000,000-2,000,000
2. 1887 Yellow River flood China 1887 900,000-2,000,000
3. 1970 Bhola cyclone East Pakistan 13/11/1970 500,000-1,000,000
4. 1556 Shaanxi earthquake China 23/01/1556 830,000
5. 1839 India Cyclone India 25/11/1839 300,000+
6. 1642 Kaifeng Flood China 1642 300,000
7. 2004 Ind.Ocean Tsunami/EQ 26/12/2004 283,100**
8. 1976 Tangshan earthquake China 28/07/19762 42,000*
9. 1975 Banqiao Dam failure China 1975 231,000
10. 1138 Aleppo earthquake Syria 1138 230,000

As time goes by, I believe Natural Disaster will strike if we do not take care of our mother nature. So let care about our mother nature because if we don't who else?
Care the mother nature before the mother nature take care of us...

2 comments:

drizad said...

Hi Eddie,

I would like to make a correction on your statement about Mount Kinabalu. For your information, Mount Kinabalu is NOT a volcanic mountain. It is a granite pluton - or in simple term, just a very big rock.

Please check out my info on the geology of the mountain here:
http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/mount-kinabalu-geology.html

Cheers!

Eddie Lim said...

ohh...thanks for the correction....I read from a journal about the Kinabalu Mountain which was volconic...Seem like I need to do more research lol....

However, thanks for viewing my blog...have a nice day drizad...hehe