Earthquake and Different Human Activities

Humanity has been progressing ever since men have harnessed the gifts of nature: fire, wind, electricity, water, among others. Fire had been used since early humans ruled the land to keep them warm at night and defend them from wild and dangerous animals. Modern humans who have the ability to think efficiently have harnessed the power of the wind in transportation and even in generating energy. And electricity had been used to power up every machine used in different human activities. However, there are still a lot of things in nature that the humans had not fully understood and had not enjoyed. Instead, these things had brought disaster and discomfort to every individual. These are the natural calamities that our nature had brought upon us: foods, earthquakes, cyclones and much more. One of the countries that were devastated by the wrath of nature is Haiti when a 7.0 magnitude quake on January 12, 2010 destroyed its cities, ravaged buildings, streets and houses, and took the lives of over 220,000 people on. This causes a lot of sufferings to the survivors especially that they had lose their source of living. Six weeks later, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck South American nation leaving a long swath of the country in smoky rubble and killing hundreds of people on its first strike. But, unlike the quake that ravaged Haiti, the earthquake in Chile is far less extensive because of the strict building precautions put in place after the previous devastating earthquakes had been experienced. Another nature- made turbulence is a cyclone. One of the most devastating cyclones ever recorded was the Cyclone Nargis which hits Burma on May 2, 2008 where 138,000 fatalities had been recorded. These calamities that befall upon humanity is a proof that nature’s wrath is inevitable. Although humans have already altered the face of this planet through the inventions of many different electronic and mechanical gadgets among other else, nature still controls the fate of this