Natural Disasters of the world

Natural Disasters of the world

Human life is often full of tides. Unexpected painful happenings always hamper the world process of life style. Of them, Natural disasters are the most unpredictable things man ever faces. Regardless of colour, cast creed, religion or race these miserable happenings coil our lives in the nick of time.

Earth quakes, exploitation of volcanoes, Tsunami, Tornados, Hurricanes, Sandstorms, Whirlwinds, Floods, and Landslides are some of the main natural disasters. According to the climatic factors, weather conditions of the country and the season or the location. The gravity of the disaster becomes more or less. However the man cannot run away from these situations or reject these wretched things. Somehow or other he has to face the music of life. The whole world experiences the ill-consequences of natural disasters.

Exactly nine years back we, Sri Lankans have become the victims of the most crucial natural disaster Tsunami which affected the most of the Asian countries bordered to the Indian ocean. Tsunami or the massive provocated wave formed by an underwater earthquake or a volcanic eruption, moved at speeds between 500 and 800 kph which has enormous destructive power. This is the most murderous natural calamity which snatched more than fifty thousand lives and displaced over a million. Thousand of destitute have taken refuge in near by temples and churches.

The people react to disaster reveals something important about human beings. These were a lot of spontaneous measures to  offer relief aids for the needy.

Lucky our little island never experience the cruelty of volcanoes, earthquakes and Tornadoes but Landslides or minor earth slips. In these great catastrophes there is something significant that we have been craving for. It is the harmony and the unity among the nations of the Sri Lanka.

Not only the rebuild the country, but to reconstruct the broken spirits of the victims too is highly concerned. With every flood, storm or earth slip the earth reminds us that we are never safe. Disasters snatch valuable lives, cause confessions and change our life for years but it is the way we face these devastations, which show our strength of characters.