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Athens, 430 B.C.: Typhus epidemic

Pompei, 79: Volcanic eruption

Antioch, Syria, 526: Earthquake (250,000 dead)

Costantinopole, 542: Bubonic plague

Beirut, Lebanon, 551: earthquake and tsunami (tens of thousands dead)

Japan, 1181: famine (100,000 dead)

Holland, 1228: sea flood (100,000 dead)

Chihli, China, 1290: Earthquake (100,000 dead)

Europe and Asia, 1346-52: Bubonic plague or "black death" (one third of the European population dead plus millions in Asia and North Africa for a total of 25 million)

Brazil, 1555: smallpox (? dead)

Mexico, 1555-76: smallpox (more than one million dead)

Shensi, China, 1556: earthquake (800,000 dead)

Russia, 1601-03: famine (one million dead)

Northern Italy, 1629-31: plague (120,000 dead)

Napoli, Italy, 1631: Mt Vesuvius erupts (3,000 dead)

Havana, 1648: Yellow fever epidemic

Sevilla, Spain, 1649: Plague (80,000 dead)

Russia, 1654-56: plague (200,000 dead)

Napoli, Italy, 1656: plague (150,000 dead)

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1663: plague (50,000 dead)

London, Britain, 1665: plague (150,000 dead)

Turkey, 1668: earthquake (8,000 dead)

Bengal, India, 1669: famine (3,000,000 dead)

Korea, 1671: famine (? dead)

Vienna, Austria, 1679: plague (76,000 dead)

Prussia, Sweden and Finland, 1709-11: plague (300,000 dead)

Hokkaido, Japan, 1730: Earthquake (140,000 dead)

Lisbon, 1755: earthquake and tsunami (30,000 dead)

Calcutta, 1737: Earthquake (300,000 dead)

Bengal, India, 1769: famine (10 million dead)

Russia, 1770-71: plague (200,000 dead)

India, 1775: Tsunami (60,000 dead)

Northamerica, 1775-82: Smallpox (130,000 dead)

Iran, 1780: earthquake (200,000 dead)

Caribbeans, 1780: Hurricane (22,000 dead)

Korea, 1784: Famine (500,000 dead)

Philadelphia, 1793: Yellow fever epidemic (5,000 dead)

Prussia, 1813-14: typhoid (200,000 dead)

Sumbawa, Indonesia, 1815: Mt Tambora erupts (88,000 dead)

Japan, 1826: Tsunami (27,000 dead)

Russia, 1830-31: cholera (500,000 dead)

Hungary, 1831: cholera (100,000 dead)

Cairo, 1831: Cholera epidemic, which spreads to London

London and Paris, 1832: Cholera epidemic (25,000 dead)

Concepcion, Chile, 1835: earthquake (5,000 dead)

Ireland, 1845: famine (one million dead)

Russia, 1847-51: cholera (one million dead)

Mapoli, Italy, 1857: earthquake (11,000 dead)

India, 1864: Cyclone (70,000 dead)

Russia, Prussia, Austria, Hungary, 1867: cholera (225,000 dead)

France and Germany, 1870-71: Smallpox (500,000 dead)

Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1873: cholera (230,000 dead)

India, 1875-78: Famine (10 million dead)

Bangladesh, 1876: Cyclone (200,000 dead)

China, 1876-78: Famine (9 million dead)

China, 1881: Typhoon (300,000 dead)

Indonesia, 1883: Tsunami (36,000 dead)

Huayan Kou, China, 1887: Yang-tse Kiang flooding (one million dead)

Mino-owari, Japan, 1891: earthquake (7,000 dead)

Russia, 1891: famine (500,000 dead)

Germany, 1892: cholera (140,000 dead)

Sanriku, Japan, 1896: Tsunami (27,000 dead)

India, 1897: earthquake (1,500 dead)

Shantung, China, 1898: famine (? dead)

Galveston, 1900: Hurricane (8,000 dead)

Martinique, 1902: Volcano (38,000 dead)

San Francisco, 1906: earthquake and fire (3,000 dead)

Colombia, 1906: earthquake (1,000 dead)

Valparaiso, Chile, 1906: earthquake (20,000 dead)

China, 1907: famine (20 million dead)

Messina, Italy, 1908: 7.5 earthquake (70,000 dead)

Ukraine, 1910: cholera (110,000 dead)

Mexico City, 1911: earthquake

Guatemala, 1917: earthquake (600 dead)

Worldwide, 1918: Influenza pandemic (25-100 million dead)

Gansu, China, 1920: 8.6 earthquake (200,000 dead)

Hebei, China, 1920-21: famine (500,000 dead)

Ukraine, 1921: Famine (5 million dead)

Lower Volga, Russia, 1921-22: Famine (5 million dead)

Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, 1923: 8.3 earthquake (143,000 dead)

Nanshan, China, 1927: 8.3 earthquake (200,000 dead)

China, 1928-30: Famine (3 million dead)

Florida, USA, 1928: Hurricane (1800 dead)

China, 1931: Flooding (3.7 million dead)

Ukraine and Russia, 1932: Famine (5 million dead)

Gansu, China, 1932: 7.6 earthquake (70,000 dead)

Sanriku, Japan, 1933: 8.4 earthquake (3,000 dead)

Bihar, India, 1934: 8.1 earthquake (10,700 dead)

Quetta, Pakistan, 1935: 7.5 earthquake (60,000 dead)

China, 1936: Famine (5 million dead)

New York, USA, 1938: Rains (600 dead)

Erzincan, Turkey, 1939: 7.8 earthquake (33,000 dead)

Santiago, Chile, 1939: earthquake (30,000 dead)

Henan, China, 1941-43: famine (3 million dead)

Bengal, India, 1943: famine (3.5 million dead)

Tonankai, Japan, 1944: 8.1 earthquake (1,200 dead)

Nankaido, Japan, 1946: earthquake (1,330 dead)

Ukraine and Russia, Soviet Union, 1946-47: famine (one million dead)

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 1948: earthquake (100,000 dead)

Assam, India, 1950: earthquake (1,526 dead)

Holland, 1953: Sea flood (1,794 dead)

Iran, 1953: Rain flood (10,000 dead)

Louisiana, USA, 1957: Hurricane (400 dead)

Worldwide, 1957: Influenza pandemic (about four million dead)

Japan, 1958: Typhoon (5,000 dead)

Ethiopia, 1958: Famine (100,000 dead)

China, 1958-61: Famine (38 million dead)

Morocco, 1960: earthquake (10,000 dead)

Chile, 1960: 9.5 earthquake and tsunami (5,700 dead)

Mt Huascaran, Peru, 1962: Volcano eruption (3,000)

Skopje, Yugoslavia, 1963: earthquake (1,066)

India, 1965: Famine (1.5 million dead)

Worldwide, 1968: Influenza pandemic (about 750,000 dead)

China, 1969: Famine (20 million dead)

North Peru, 1970: 7.8 earthquake (66,000 dead)

Bangladesh, 1970: Sea flood (200-500,000 dead)

Vietnam, 1971: Red River flood (100,000 dead)

Managua, Nicaragua, 1972: earthquake flood (10,000 dead)

Bangladesh, 1974: floods (28,000 dead)

Honduras, 1974: hurricane (5,000 dead)

Ethiopia, 1974: famine (200,000 dead)

Haicheng, China, 1975: 7.0 earthquake (10,000 dead)

Tangshan, China, 1976: 8.0 earthquake (750,000 dead)

Guatemala, 1976: earthquake (23,000 dead)

Cambdia, 1976-78: famine (700,000 dead)

Andhra Pradesh, India, 1977: cyclone (10,000 dead)

Caribbeans, 1979: Hurricane (2,000 dead)

Mexico, 1982: volcanic eruption (1,800 dead)

Yemen, 1982: earthquake (3,000 dead)

Bhopal, India, 1984: Chemical pollution (3,800 dead)

Mozambique, 1984: famine (100,000 dead)

Ethiopia, 1984: Famine (900,000 dead)

Ciudad de Mexico, 1985: 8.1 earthquake (9,500 dead)

Colombia, 1985: Volcano (25,000 dead)

Armenia, 1988: earthquake (55,000 dead)

Colombia, 1985: eruption of Nevado del Ruiz (23,000 dead)

Bangladesh, 1988: Monsoon flood (1,300 dead)

Gilan and Zanjan, Iran, 1990: 7.7 earthquake (35,000 dead)

Bangladesh, 1991: tsunami (138,000 dead)

Latur, India, 1993: earthquake (22,000 dead)

Kobe, Japan, 1995: earthquake (5,500 dead)

Niger, 1995: meningitis epidemic (3,000 dead)

Chicago, USA, 1995: heatwave (739 dead)

North Korea, 1995-98: Floods and famine (3.5 million dead)

West Africa, 1996: meningitis outbreak (25,000 dead)

Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1996: earthquake (??,000 dead)

Papua New Guinea, 1998: Tsunami (2,200 dead)

Yangtze Kiang, China, 1998: flooding (3,600 dead)

Central America, 1998: Hurricane Mitch and floods (12,000 dead)

Afghanistan, 1998: Earthquakes (10,000 dead)

Colombia, 1999: earthquake (1,185 dead)

Izmit, Turkey, 1999: earthquake (17,000 dead)

Taiwan, 1999: 7.6 earthquake (2,400 dead)

Orissa, India, 1999: Cyclone (7,600 dead)

Venezuela, 1999: Floods (20,000 dead)

Vietnam, 1999: Floods (750 dead)

Gujarat, India, 2001: earthquake (20,000 dead)

El Salvador, 2001: earthquake (850 dead)

Afghanistan, 2002: earthquake (2,500 dead)

Algeria, 2003: earthquake (2,266 dead)

Asia, 2003: SARS (744 dead, mostly in China)

Andhra Pradesh, India, 2003: Heat wave (1,300 dead)

France, Spain and Italy, 2003: Heat wave (50,000 dead)

Bam, Iran, 2003: earthquake (26,300 dead)

Al-Hoceima, Morocco, 2004: earthquake (571 dead)

Haiti and Dominican Republic, 2004: rains (2,400 dead)

Philippines, 2004: typhoon (1,000 dead)

China, 2004: floods (1,300 dead)

Southeast Asia, 2004: tsunamis caused by 9.0 earthquake (245,000 dead of which111,000 dead in Indonesia, 31,000 in Sri Lanka, 10,700 in India, 5,400 in Thailand, 68 in Malaysia, 82 in the Maldives, 300 in Myanmar and 150 in Somalia, including 1,500 Scandinavian tourists, and dozens of Germans, Italians, Dutch, etc)

Zarand, Iran, 2005: earthquake (500 dead)

Nias, Indonesia, 2005: 8.7 earthquake (1000 dead)

Mumbai, India, 2005: monsoon (1,000 dead)

China, 2005: floods (567 dead)

Louisiana and Mississippi, USA, 2005: "Katrina" hurricane (1,836 dead)

Niger, 2005: famine (10,000? dead)

Kashmir, 2005: earthquake (80,500 dead, of which 79,000 in Pakistan and 1,350 in India)

Central America, 2005: floods (1,400 dead, of which 1,200 in Guatemala)

Philippines, 2006: mudslides (1,800)

Java, 2006: earthquake (4,300)

Java, 2006: tsunami (520)

India and Pakistan, aug 2006: floods (300)

Southern Ethiopia, aug 2006: floods (800)

Fujian, China, aug 2006: typhoon (260)

Indian subcontinent, june 2007: storms (228 in Pakistan, 500 in India, 600 in Bangladesh, unknown in Afghanistan)

Hungary, july 2007: heatwave (500)

North Korea, august 2007: floods (1,000?)

Peru, august 2007: earthquake (540)

Bangladesh, november 2007: cyclone (4,000)

Afghanistan, february 2008: cold wave (926)

Myanmar/Burma, may 2008: cyclone (135,000)

China, may 2008: earthquake (70,000)

Haiti, august 2008: hurricane (500)

India and Bangladesh, september 2008: floods (635)

Abruzzo, Italy, april 2009: earthquake (300)

Taiwan, august 2009: typhoon (700)

Sumatra, Indonesia, september 2009: earthquake (1200)

Philippines, october 2009: storms (189)

USA, 2009: swine flue (10,000)

Haiti, january 2010: earthquake (50,000) ...and counting :sad:

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Many Haitian's faith remains unshaken

 

I do find this endearing. Hopefully they will put away some of the vodou beliefs, which they have blended with catholicism (already blended with paganism) and turn to a pure heart toward Christ. I am sure a bold statement like this will anger many of you, but so be it! Vodou has plagued them long enough, and when they say that these disasters are the displeasure of the lao, they should consider that. Who are these lao, which they allow and encourage to possess them? Certainly not spirits that are faithful to God. The Lord does not send His angels to possess His servants, but to protect and minister to them. Does He use His angels, both faithful and fallen, as instruments of His judgement? I'm afraid the bible says yes.

 

I won't take Pat Robertson's stance and make any presumptions about God's intentions toward Haiti. I will however point people to the bible, and to the book of Revelation, which clearly states that God will, at a point in time, begin to pour His judgement out on the whole world. Jesus compares earthquakes to the birth pangs of a woman going into labor, and like birth pangs they come closer together and increase in intensity. There was just an earthquake near Argentina, thankfully some 200 miles off the coast, but it was over a 6 in magnitude. Seismic activity is in fact increasing. My link

 

As I said before, my thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Haiti. When I have some money that will go out to them too. I don't have any hate or ill will against them, I just pray that they turn from the rampant crime and spiritual practices that have plagued them for so long, and use this horrible catastrophic event, not as an opportunity to curse God, but instead to ask for His blessing.

 

OK now you may start to bash me.. and go..

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i'll field this one

 

It's obviously an extremely religious country, so the obvious question would be why they are living in their own shit when quite a non-religious country like England (where a sizable portion of the younger generation practically mock religion) is much more comfortable

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glasse i just pray that when the next quake comes and youre done being buried under a house for 5 days that allah will forgive you for worshipping the white devil and you will cast aside your ridiculous beliefs become a nice god-fearing muslim like god intended.

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glasse i just pray that when the next quake comes and youre done being buried under a house for 5 days that allah will forgive you for worshipping the white devil and you will cast aside your ridiculous beliefs become a nice god-fearing muslim like god intended.

 

inshallah, my brother

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i'll field this one

 

It's obviously an extremely religious country, so the obvious question would be why they are living in their own shit when quite a non-religious country like England (where a sizable portion of the younger generation practically mock religion) is much more comfortable

Psalm 73

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glasse i just pray that when the next quake comes and youre done being buried under a house for 5 days that allah will forgive you for worshipping the white devil and you will cast aside your ridiculous beliefs become a nice god-fearing muslim like god intended.

 

 

woe there sucka :smile:

 

what about muhammad on that island and all his power hungry crusades?

 

what use is forced conversion to God if one does not except it in ones heart?

 

(i know there are many many good muslims like yourself, but i'm just saying) :blink:

 

white devil? (watch it...them's big words orange)

 

Christ was an advocate of pacifism and forgiveness, it's his

followers that mucked it all up.......fucking humans.

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i'll field this one

 

It's obviously an extremely religious country, so the obvious question would be why they are living in their own shit when quite a non-religious country like England (where a sizable portion of the younger generation practically mock religion) is much more comfortable

Psalm 73

 

Hmmm i feel the Quaran satisfied my question better

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Many Haitian's faith remains unshaken

 

I do find this endearing. Hopefully they will put away some of the vodou beliefs, which they have blended with catholicism (already blended with paganism) and turn to a pure heart toward Christ. I am sure a bold statement like this will anger many of you, but so be it! Vodou has plagued them long enough, and when they say that these disasters are the displeasure of the lao, they should consider that. Who are these lao, which they allow and encourage to possess them? Certainly not spirits that are faithful to God. The Lord does not send His angels to possess His servants, but to protect and minister to them. Does He use His angels, both faithful and fallen, as instruments of His judgement? I'm afraid the bible says yes.

 

I won't take Pat Robertson's stance and make any presumptions about God's intentions toward Haiti. I will however point people to the bible, and to the book of Revelation, which clearly states that God will, at a point in time, begin to pour His judgement out on the whole world. Jesus compares earthquakes to the birth pangs of a woman going into labor, and like birth pangs they come closer together and increase in intensity. There was just an earthquake near Argentina, thankfully some 200 miles off the coast, but it was over a 6 in magnitude. Seismic activity is in fact increasing. My link

 

As I said before, my thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Haiti. When I have some money that will go out to them too. I don't have any hate or ill will against them, I just pray that they turn from the rampant crime and spiritual practices that have plagued them for so long, and use this horrible catastrophic event, not as an opportunity to curse God, but instead to ask for His blessing.

 

OK now you may start to bash me.. and go..

 

you are why i want to move to the woods.

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i'll field this one

 

It's obviously an extremely religious country, so the obvious question would be why they are living in their own shit when quite a non-religious country like England (where a sizable portion of the younger generation practically mock religion) is much more comfortable

 

 

im hoping this statement is a joke that I failed to pick up on, otherwise you'd be quite an idiot.

 

Haiti is one of the first countries I name off when people ask who has been negatively affected by the World Bank, much of Southeast Asia usually gets mentioned as well, surprise surprise, they live under awfully familiar circumstances.

 

The sad thing about Haiti and these other countries, especially in haiti's case, is the damage is practically irreversible...

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I've seen on tv they are using dogs in order to find people among the debris. Those dogs are trained to drop a shit whenever they smell corpses.

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i'll field this one

 

It's obviously an extremely religious country, so the obvious question would be why they are living in their own shit when quite a non-religious country like England (where a sizable portion of the younger generation practically mock religion) is much more comfortable

 

 

im hoping this statement is a joke that I failed to pick up on, otherwise you'd be quite an idiot.

 

 

 

wtf? Have you quoted the wrong person?

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i'll field this one

 

It's obviously an extremely religious country, so the obvious question would be why they are living in their own shit when quite a non-religious country like England (where a sizable portion of the younger generation practically mock religion) is much more comfortable

 

 

im hoping this statement is a joke that I failed to pick up on, otherwise you'd be quite an idiot.

 

 

 

wtf? Have you quoted the wrong person?

 

 

lol no man, if you were seriously asking that question I suppose I should apologize. If you do a fair bit of research, it's obvious that the political, economic, and social history of Haiti has been quite conflicted and the island has pretty much been raped since the early colonial days....also countries that poor and destitute with little to no outside allies and little guarantee of life much less a comfortable life makes it understandable to an outsider looking in as to why they are so religious. When there is no realistic hope, people begin to believe in something beyond their realities. I think that's true for every person to some extent.

 

I heard it from some song a while back, and it makes sense in the same application, "There are no atheists in the foxholes."

 

im not sure if my sentence structure worked, so see if you can get some sorta point from that, but mainly I'm saying, when things in your home are so beyond your control or beyond the control of any social mechanism, you are more likely to believe in the supernatural/religious

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and they are farrr worse off than most African countries, simply because their geographical location does not allow for arable land due to the soil being loosened by constant storm systems, erosion, etc.

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wow, some amazing facts (and not the positive "yay!" amazing), pulled some from CIA and Wikipedia:

 

 

Almost all the jungle forests in Haiti have been destroyed for cultivation, almost 90% of all woodland is gone, combined with the hurricanes, earthquakes, and erosion due to it being a particularly mountainous area, most of the land is now in-arable due to a lack of a root system.

 

 

Over half the populous work it small stage-agricultural farming, yet this only provides for 30% of the entire nation's GDP. Not to mention most of the agricultural sector is being run out by no-tariff restrictions on US food and World Bank sponsored goods.

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im not sure if my sentence structure worked, so see if you can get some sorta point from that, but mainly I'm saying, when things in your home are so beyond your control or beyond the control of any social mechanism, you are more likely to believe in the supernatural/religious

 

Without doubt, you see it everywhere.

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i'll field this one

 

It's obviously an extremely religious country, so the obvious question would be why they are living in their own shit when quite a non-religious country like England (where a sizable portion of the younger generation practically mock religion) is much more comfortable

 

 

im hoping this statement is a joke that I failed to pick up on, otherwise you'd be quite an idiot.

 

 

 

wtf? Have you quoted the wrong person?

 

 

also countries that poor and destitute with little to no outside allies and little guarantee of life much less a comfortable life makes it understandable to an outsider looking in as to why they are so religious. When there is no realistic hope, people begin to believe in something beyond their realities. I think that's true for every person to some extent.

 

I heard it from some song a while back, and it makes sense in the same application, "There are no atheists in the foxholes."

 

 

 

 

wonderful words

 

thats why the God i know and love want's us to see this world for what it truly is.

 

then we can all realize we are in 'the shit' together.

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lol, cheers for the praise, but it's not my saying, i heard it on some song I swear...but it really makes sense if you think about it....how many people that are atheist begin to pray to God when they realize they are about to be shot, hanged, etc etc?

 

I mean, there are no definite numbers, but I am willing to wager that there are many converts in that split-second.

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glasse i just pray that when the next quake comes and youre done being buried under a house for 5 days that allah will forgive you for worshipping the white devil and you will cast aside your ridiculous beliefs become a nice god-fearing muslim like god intended.

 

 

woe there sucka :smile:

 

what about muhammad on that island and all his power hungry crusades?

 

what use is forced conversion to God if one does not except it in ones heart?

 

(i know there are many many good muslims like yourself, but i'm just saying) :blink:

 

white devil? (watch it...them's big words orange)

 

Christ was an advocate of pacifism and forgiveness, it's his

followers that mucked it all up.......fucking humans.

 

 

 

:facepalm:

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