Earthquakes

73 Earthquakes in 2011
62 Earthquakes in 2012
Economic losses
Economic losses overall were over $5 million for direct losses, but will exceed $594 billion over the next few years, mainly in Japan, Christchurch (NZ), and Sikkim (actually affecting many countries from India, Tibet (China), Bhutan, and Nepal as far as Bangladesh.)


"The Federal Emergency Management Agency has estimated that earthquakes cost the United States, on average, over $5 billion per year,"
(this is the USA damages alone)

Japan’s government estimated the damage from this month’s record earthquake and tsunami at as much as 25 trillion yen ($309 billion), an amount almost four times the hit imposed by Hurricane Katrina on the U.S.

So why are we not paying more attention to Earthquakes? Hurricanes affect the area that they hit, while earthquakes affects are farther reaching, touching other countries other than the ones they happen in. Aftershocks are considered more deadly than the original quake and the tsunamis that could potentially be generated from them affect people oceans away. I was looking at a site online about earthquakes and oh hell I will just show you a sample of what it said. This is information about the Japan earthquake near Honshu   This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 9.0

Date-Time Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:46:24 UTC

Friday, March 11, 2011 at 02:46:24 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location: 38.297°N, 142.372°E

Depth: 30 km (18.6 miles) set by location program

Region: NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

Distances: 129 km (80 miles) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan

177 km (109 miles) E of Yamagata, Honshu, Japan

177 km (109 miles) ENE of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan

373 km (231 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan

Location Uncertainty: horizontal +/- 13.5 km (8.4 miles); depth fixed by location program

Parameters: NST=350, Nph=351, Dmin=416.3 km, Rmss=0.1 sec, Gp= 29°,

M-type=centroid moment magnitude (Mw), Version=A

Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0001xgp
If you look at the information it tells you a few important things.
Where it was, where it was centered and how deep bellow the surface of the earth it was. I am sure that there are other sites that can give you more details, but I need to ask a question here.

If we know so much about it after it happens and it is doing incredible damage and death to nations while it happens, then why are we not trying to find ways to know about it before it happens?
Earthquakes kill more people and damage more property than hurricanes annually, but we are still more interested in controlling the weather???
If we can measure the aftershock, pinpoint the center, why can't we tell the world its comming before it happens? Maybe we need to devise ways of measuring the pressure?
It is incredibly sad watching the aftermath of earthquakes. Your heart dies a bit every time it is on the news. The devastation is horrible.
SO LET'S JUST STOP!!!!

STOP spending money on war in the middle east.
STOP financing terrorist attacks.
STOP building up arms.
STOP manipulating markets.
STOP worrying about material things.
and START SERIOUSLY THINKING ABOUT THE HUMAN FACTOR.
Without people on this planet there would be no Material Things.
Without people on this planet there would be nothing.
I do want comfort, I would be lying to say I didn't. But how much comfort, power, goods and THINGS do we need that they become more important that PEOPLE?

We need to ...FEED THE WORLD, EDUCATE THE WORLD, SO TOLERANCE TO THE WORLD. How can we do that?
STOP....and look at what will sustain us, not what will make us obsolete.
DON'T MAKE US GO THE WAY OF THE DINOSAUR....we can be much smarter than this.
Enough Said....