Earthquakes are a serious threat to humanity

Earthquakes have become a serious threat to mankind, countries need to act seriously to deal with this threat.

Statistics from the United Nations International Strategy Institute for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and the Center for Epidemiological Research of Disasters (CRED) published on January 18 show that major earthquakes have affected touched millions and killed tens of thousands of people in 2010 and 2011. In Haiti alone, the earthquake in early 2010 killed 220,000 people.

In 2011, out of 29,782 people worldwide died in 302 disasters, 20,943 people died of earthquakes, of which 19,846 died in the March 2011 earthquake in Japan.

UNISDR noted that cities in earthquake areas should take into account the risk of earthquake recurrence even though large earthquakes have not occurred in many years. The earthquake in Haiti took place in 2010 when in the previous 200 years, the country never had an earthquake.

If big cities are not prepared to deal with earthquakes, human damage will increase in the future. It is noteworthy that in 2011, earthquakes and many other disasters occurred in high-income and middle-income countries, so these countries have sufficient resources to prevent and overcome disasters better.

CRED assessed that the economic damage caused by the disaster in 2011 amounted to 366 billion USD compared to 243 billion USD in 2005. Other natural disasters occurred in 2011 causing great damage to people after the earthquake as a flood that killed 5,000 people, followed by a storm that killed 3,000 people. The unfavorable temperature has killed 231 people, much lower than the average of 14,731 people in the past 10 years, from 2001-2010.

A total of 206 million people globally are affected by 302 natural disasters recorded in 2011, of which 106 million people are affected by floods, 60 million are affected by drought and 34 million are impacted by storms. More than 45% of the 302 global disasters in 2011 occurred in Asia.

Asia also accounts for 85% of the number of people killed and affected, 75% of economic losses due to natural disasters worldwide in 2011. Europe in 2011 suffered only a few catastrophic impacts and numbers. dead or affected people as well as economic losses by disaster also dropped to the lowest level since 1090.