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March 3, 2010
By Ron Fraser
The Trumpet
The incidence of natural disaster has risen
dramatically over the past 20 years. To close observers of current events in relation
to both history and Bible prophecy, this is no mere coincidence.
The facts are that statistics prove natural disasters have risen startlingly since
1990. In a law-abiding universe, there has to be a reason for this.
During the 40
years preceding the decade of the 1990s, there were 142 classified natural disasters
in the United States. During the 10 years of the 1990s, there were 72. The decade
that followed from 2000 to 2009 saw some of the worst and most destructive natural
disasters in recorded history across the globe. And the most destructive in terms
of loss of life and property? Earthquakes by far!
“‘Earthquakes are the deadliest
natural hazard of the past 10 years and remain a serious threat for millions of people
worldwide as eight out of the ten most populous cities in the world are on earthquake
fault lines,’ said Margareta Wahlström, UN special representative of the secretary
general for disaster risk reduction. …
“According to the figures released today by
cred [the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters] in Geneva, 3,852 disasters
killed more than 780,000 people over the past 10 years, affected more than 2 billion
others and cost a minimum of us$960 billion. …
“After earthquakes, storms (22%) and
extreme temperatures (11%) were the most deadly disasters between 2000 and 2009.
… ‘The number of catastrophic events has more than doubled since the 1980-1989 decade,’
[said] Professor Guha-Sapir, director of cred” (United Nations International Strategy
for Disaster Reduction Secretariat press release, January 2010).
The current decade
has commenced with early indications of that trend continuing. Devastating earthquakes
in Haiti and Chile, and record-breaking winter storms in Europe and North America
have left many dead and homeless, and town and city infrastructures greatly damaged.
On
reflection, clearly 1989 was a watershed year, a threshold from which natural disasters
escalated most dramatically compared to past eras in history - since 1989–earthquakes,
tsunamis, destructive storms, floods, fires, mudslides, extremes of temperatures—which
take the figures right off the record charts since statistics have been recorded?
Just Facts