Horrific Earthquake Tragedies

Please excuse me for posting a story on Sunday. It is really not something that I do or want to do.

However, what has happened in two separate countries world-wide is so terrible that I just wanted to let you know about it. I dread the fact if something similar happens over here in our part of North America.  All of this is so mind numbing to me and so terrifying as far as I'm concerned. 

It just seems to me that we can't tell anything anymore. How many tragedies have we seen in other parts of the world. And who knows what negative events could take place in our area at some time in the future. Are we prepared for it?

Take a look at the stories that happened over the last few days. I just wonder if there's any connection even though the problems occurred in different parts of the world: 

"Powerful, 7.8-magnitude quake hits Ecuador's central coast

Canadian Press  

QUITO, Ecuador — A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, cracking buildings and rattling homes as far away as the capital of Quito. 

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 27 kilometers (16 miles) south-southeast of Muisne, Ecuador, in a touristic area of fishing ports. It had a depth of 19 kilometers."  (Canadian Press 8 hrs ago)

 

Then there was this one: 

"Japan earthquakes: Authorities evacuate nearly 250,000 people from homes amid worsening weather  

Japanese authorities have ordered nearly a quarter of a million people from their homes after a deadly earthquake struck a southern island, and the search for survivors went on into the early hours of Sunday amid worsening weather conditions.  

A 7.3-magnitude tremor struck early on Saturday morning, killing at least 32 people, injuring about 1,000 more and causing widespread damage to houses, roads and bridges. 

It was the second major quake to hit Kumamoto province on the island of Kyushu in just over 24 hours. The first, late on Thursday, killed nine people. 

There have been 347 aftershocks of at least level 1 on the Japanese scale since Thursday's shock, broadcaster NHK reported." (ABC News 12 hours ago)

Here's something that happened a few years before in Japan according to that story: 

"Japan is on the seismically active "ring of fire" around the Pacific Ocean, and has building codes aimed at helping structures withstand earthquakes. 

A magnitude-9 quake in March 2011, north of Tokyo, touched off a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, contaminating water, food and air for kilometres around. Nearly 20,000 people were killed in the tsunami."  

I'm not going to talk anymore about what happened in these 2 countries. I only wanted to let you know, dear reader, about it.  The fact that these events happened so close together and on such a large scale is extremely troubling to me. 

I just wonder to be frank how much care our Government people can provide to us both before such a calamity takes place to warn us of it and what steps they can take after it happens to protect us from the disaster that could occur.  I do hope that someone wakes up in our Governments' Departments both federally and provincially to start working on a solution before a tragedy might happen.