Natural Disaster

Natural Disaster is nature's action that opposed people with big power. These kind of disasters lead to big losses and kill a lot of people. There are many kind of disasters : earthquakes, windstorms , floods, tsunami, volcanic eruption,.. These disasters usually happens without warning. That's why after the disaster, many cities have been destroyed and led to the death of thousands of people.

 Earthquakes:
An earthquake is caused by the sudden breaking and movement of large sections (tectonic plates) of the earth's rocky outermost crust. At the Earth’s surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. Due to the australiangeographic.com, the 10 biggest earthquakes in the history (until now) are : valdivia, chile,1960; Prince Willian Sound, Alaska,1964; Sumatra, Indonesia, 2004; Sendai, Japan, 2011; Kamchatka, Russia, 1952; Bio-bio, Chile, 2010;Ecuador coast,1906; Rat Islands, Alaska, 1965; Sumatra, Indonesia, 2005; Assam, Tibet, 2005. These earthquakes above are all have the magnitude more than 8.5, and they all caused a very big amount of the destruction after that. The deadliest earthquakes was seem to be in egypt and syria (1201), this disaster killed over 1.1 million people, destroying countless homes, and almost every major city within the near east had been affected by this quake
 This is the link for the earthquake in japan in 2011 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqhGvs4Rnic

Drought:

A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region suffers a severe deficiency in its water supply.Drought is caused by not only lack of precipitation and high temperatures but by overuse and overpopulation.  Although droughts can persist for several years, even a short, intense drought can cause significant damage and harm the local economy. The most popular drought was seem to be in china (1876-1879) ,there were no food production because the rivers ran dry killing them, these disaster killed over 9 million people. Next one is in Africa (1981-1984), just like in china, the rivers and lakes dried up leads to livestock died, these caused about 20,000 people starving to death each month. In the end , there were over 1 million had succumbed to death.