Haiti Earthquakes

The Haiti earthquakes occurred around the 12th of January, 2010 knocking down buildings and power lines. This earthquake had a magnitude of 7.0 and it is the most powerful earthquake hit Haiti in a century. The earthquake destroyed houses, schools, hospitals, and even the National Palace in Port-au-Prince. Roughly 3 million people were affected and 230,000 people had died, 1,000,000 people were homeless and loss their property.

According to BBC news, when the earthquake happens, "Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken," said Mr Bahn, who described the sky as "just grey with dust". He said he had been walking to his hotel room when the ground began to shake. "I just held on and bounced across the wall," he said. "I just heard a tremendous amount of noise and shouting and screaming in the distance."

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Earthquake really is terrified as it happens without any warning. Unlike flood and fire where people still have time to escape, earthquake happens in a blink of eyes, people even doesn't have any time to escape. After seeing this incident in Haiti, my heart is filled with pain for the people of Haiti. I hope organizations can donate money and give help to them in terms of rebuilt their home and fulfill their basic needs in order for them to live on.

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Heavy snowfall in Europe

According to NewsSecond, snow storm has started to hits Europe in December 17,2010. This incident causes over 800 flights forced to be canceled which include countries such as Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland. This heavy snowfall has affected the operation of transport in Europe. Beside that, Winter vegetable crops such as cauliflowers and potatoes are threatened by the icy temperatures, and harvesting of other vegetables such as carrots, turnips, sugar beet and parsnips was delayed as fields are completely frozen. This will definitely give a big impacts on Europe's economy.

Take example for Moscow,one of Moscow's two main airports, Domodedovo, has suspended all flights after the electricity went off due to the icing-up of power cables. Roads and cars in the capital are covered with ice after rain. Several districts in the Moscow region have also been left without power, with over 100,000 people affected. City authorities of Moscow are urging people to stay at home.

The seriousness of snowfall in Europe can be seen in the following pictures:

Heavy snow strikes China

Beside Brazil and Australia experienced flood, many other countries also encountered natural disaster.China on the other hand struggling to cope with the worst snow storms its seen in 50 years since December 20. Snowstorms and freezing temperatures have hit the northern parts of China including Hebei, Hubei, Henan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Shandong, Shaanxi and Shanxi.

This heavy snow has strikes the area of northern China, paralyzing traffic on major roads and forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights. Besides that, more than 2.2 million pupils in Beijing and nearby Tianjin enjoyed a day off as the government closing thousands of schools despite of the bad weather.

According to The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs ,the heavy snow storms that hit northern China have killed 32 people excluding those who dies in snow-caused traffic accidents,devastated almost 300,000 hectares of crops, and caused economic loses amounting to 7 billion yuan or approximately one billion US dollars .The following video shows the situation in China:

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Flood in Australia

Beside Brazil, Australia also faces a serious flood in their country where the flood starts in late November across the waterlogged state of Queensland. Australia's third largest city, Brisbane's rivers are rising forcing people to flee both suburbs and skycrapers. The flow of water is terrifying and powerful where it carried away cars and people.

Accroding to the news at wordpress.com,"The water was literally leaping, six or 10 feet into the air, through creeks and over bridges and into parks," Kowald, 53, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "There was nowhere to escape, even if there had been warnings. There was just a sea of water about a kilometer (a half-mile) wide." Other than that, the flood even crushed the office window, causes the car crashed into the tree and washed away the bridges and sidewalks.

We can see the situation of Australia through this video:

The floods have caused many people deaths and missing in Australia since late November. Helicopters and other emergency vehicles were moving into the flood area to rescues the victim. However, the death toll would likely to rise as the flood situation has getting worst. For more information on the development of flood in Australia, can refers to the articles about Queenlands Flood Disaster 2010/2011, it shows the situation at Australia from 30 November 2010- 5 January 2011.

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I think this time the flood incident happened in Australia really give an big impacts to Australia whereby not only the huge number of victim is scarified, it also caused big impact on the Australia's economy. Besides that, all the everyday activities and the basic needs also been affected since the road and transportation system are all dysfunctional due to the flood. However, I hope the flood incident will be better as time goes along. The victim's family must be positive and be brave facing this difficulties.

Natural Disaster in Brazil

Brazilians’ are experiencing the worst fears when floods and mudslides happened in the mountains areas near the city of Rio de Janeiro. It was the country’s worst natural disaster on record. A large number of people had died in floods and mudslides. The following video has shown the situation in Brazil:

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Natural disaster really is an terrifying experience and it came without any warning. My feeling is that since we cannot control the natural disaster that are going to happen, we should treat everyday as our last day and must appreciate everything around us including our family, friends and others so that we will not leave this world with the feelings of regret. We should live a happy life everyday!