18,000?

[Jaan]

Ouch. Ouch and ouch times 18,000 and counting.

(and please refrain from comments such as "good riddance it was all pakis" A loss of life is a loss of life anywhere.



I was so surprised - for the third time this past three months. Mother Nature's behavior has been shocking lately!



Hurricanes (counting the devastation in Central America, on which no ones reports on because they are poor countries- bastards), earthquakes, forest fires (calif), floods (our own Andhra state)?



Should we expect another tsunami in December to round up all the disasters? A meteor shower, I mean, the sky falling on us is looking more probable? Is it just me or has she been on a rampage this year?



Jaan

[Wisecrack]

Its sad. Nature's fury unleashed.And of all places it had to be Kashmir,a place long suffering with violence and bloodshed.Natural disasters we say..but most of them are due to man-made causes.

[paranoid]Jus makes me wonder..with all the trees and rocks goin in Hyd...could it be ...???Somehow I dont feel safe and secure anymore.[/paranoid]

[HH]

Nature Hits Back ... Where It Hurts Most ...



For Centuries Man Abused Nature ... Nature Hits Back ...



Tsunami, Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Floods ... Earlier Localised ... Now Going GLOBAL ...

Subcontinent Has Long History of Devastating Earthquakes

VOA News - 08 October 2005

The earthquake that struck the Kashmir region of northern India and Pakistan is one of strongest in living memory. Yet, the Indian subcontinent has a long history of devastating earthquakes.

Two of the most deadly also measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, just like the current one.

The first, in 1935, killed 35,000 people when it struck Quetta in Baluchistan province of what is now western Pakistan. More recently, at least 11,500 people were killed in 2001 in the Indian city of Gujarat by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that also killed 20 people in southern Pakistan. That was also felt throughout the Indian sub-continent, including Bangladesh.

The most powerful earthquake struck in 1905 with a magnitude of 7.9, killing nearly 20,000 people in Kangra, a city in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

As long ago as 893, an estimated 150,000 people were killed when the city of Debal in modern-day Pakistan was destroyed. Other notable earthquakes occurred in 1945, when a magnitude 7.9 earthquake centered off the Makran coast of Pakistan killed at least 2,000 people in southern Pakistan and neighboring Iran.

In 1991, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan took relatively few lives - about 400 in Afghanistan and another 300 in Pakistan and Tagikistan - but was felt as far away as New Delhi and Tashkent in Uzbekistan.

Visit:
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-10-08-voa34.cfm

[lizardking]

Nature Hits Back ... Where It Hurts Most ...

For Centuries Man Abused Nature ... Nature Hits Back ...

how did man abuse nature? i dont agree with u saying that. we definitely are a part of nature and whatever we do to it is a part of nature as well(pollution, nuclear waste and ozone depletion included)... and nature is not some thign that is constant (like the temperature of earth a few 100 thousand years ago). Nothing, my friend is constant in this universe that we know of.

[HH]

The Use and Abuse of Nature
incorporating This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equity

Madhav Gadgil* and Ramachandra Guha**



"This is an omnibus edition of two books that have radically altered our understanding of Indian history. This Fissured Land presents an interpretive ecological history of the sub-continent. Ecology and Equity is a spirited intervention into the environment-development debate."

* Madhav Gadgil is professor of Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

** Ramachandra Guha is one of India's best-known historians, a full-time author and columnist. He has taught at Yale University, the Indian Institute of Science and the University of California at Berkeley, where he was the Indo-American Community Chair Professor in 1997 and 1998.

Visit:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/s ... 195671988#

Readers May Report On The Book ...



Instead Of Adjusting To Nature, Man Tries To Encroach Upon & "Control" Nature ...



Think:



- Reclaim Land From The Sea ... Where Will The Water GO ... Into Low Lying Areas Somewhere Else ... Some Poor Neighbourhood.



- Change Course Of River For Water ... Only To See The River Has Its Own "Mind" & Wreck Havoc Elsewhere ...



- Start Brackish Prawn Ponds In Fresh Water Rice Fields ... Insect Menace, Foul Smells Hit The People ... Rice Crops Too "Hit"! ...



- Throw Rubbish Into The Drains, Canals, Rivers, Sea ... For How Long ... Before Man Drowns In Own GARBAGE!



...

[Sachin]

[quote="Jaan"Is it just me or has she been on a rampage this year?



Jaan[/quote]



30k and still counting.... seen a lot of disasters this year arnd the world....

sure she wants to eat you alive lol!!!!

[-:-PhAT-:-]

sadness

tryin to help them though

[lizardking]

The Use and Abuse of Nature
incorporating This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equity

Madhav Gadgil* and Ramachandra Guha**



"This is an omnibus edition of two books that have radically altered our understanding of Indian history. This Fissured Land presents an interpretive ecological history of the sub-continent. Ecology and Equity is a spirited intervention into the environment-development debate."

* Madhav Gadgil is professor of Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

** Ramachandra Guha is one of India's best-known historians, a full-time author and columnist. He has taught at Yale University, the Indian Institute of Science and the University of California at Berkeley, where he was the Indo-American Community Chair Professor in 1997 and 1998.

Visit:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/s ... 195671988#

Readers May Report On The Book ...

Instead Of Adjusting To Nature, Man Tries To Encroach Upon & "Control" Nature ...

Think:

- Reclaim Land From The Sea ... Where Will The Water GO ... Into Low Lying Areas Somewhere Else ... Some Poor Neighbourhood.

- Change Course Of River For Water ... Only To See The River Has Its Own "Mind" & Wreck Havoc Elsewhere ...

- Start Brackish Prawn Ponds In Fresh Water Rice Fields ... Insect Menace, Foul Smells Hit The People ... Rice Crops Too "Hit"! ...

- Throw Rubbish Into The Drains, Canals, Rivers, Sea ... For How Long ... Before Man Drowns In Own GARBAGE!

...

I think .. what ever man is doing... either be it bending rivers, or creatign ponds.. he is just adjusting to nature.... but one thing i want to point out here is that we should nt count man as a separate entity, he is a part of nature as well... and it is a confined system. like 50 years ago, man did nt have enough food for the growing populations, so he desecrated the forests and started building crop fields, as a result, he has sfood, but he was out of water (deforestation), its like the application of newton s laws in ecology. And you cannot stop some thign from happening, at the most you can slow it down, right!

building dams do lead to earth quakes, but without dams.. he would have been dead ages ago!