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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Disaster Stories of All the Universe Until the 19th century

1.Black Death in Europe from 1347 to 1351 = 75 million people killed

Black Death was an epidemic disease outbreak PES and pneumonia which devastated Europe between the years 1347 and 1351. Black death which occurred at around 1300s was probably the worst disaster ever befall mankind civilization on this earth.Spread throughout the world, the black death has killed at least 75 million people, including 25 million people in Europe. In fact, the black death to kill one out of every four Europeans in just over four years. This disease probably originated from China, then transmitted to the people of Europe when a Kipchak (Mongols) invaded a crowd with an infected corpse tossed into the middle of commercial center in the Crimea. Then they will plague reached Genoa in 1347, then spread to the west and north, reaching London and Paris in 1348. Plague first time they will probably carried by rat fleas which also can live in humans. It was later turned into a plague pneumonia is spread through coughing and sneezing. After the black death plague these, terrain filled with mayat2, houses, villages and cities become desolate and empty. After that there was a scarcity of labor so that their wage increases and many slaves get their freedom. It is said that thousands of human framework used as the basic construction of buildings Chapel Evora in Portugal it is a frame of the victims of plague black death malignancy. Extinction black death largely due to improvements in sanitation, which weakens the ability of carriers of plague flea defense.


Worldwide 2.Epidemi Great Influenza 1918-1919 = 22000000-40000000 killed

Great influenza epidemic occurs in two waves. First wave begins in 1918; Wave II after the virus has mutated, in the start in the summer of 1918. Specific influenza viruses in 1918-1919 which erupted into a major influenza epidemic, first appeared in February 1918, in San Sebastian, Spain, a small coastal town about thirty miles from the French border. The disease attacks most of Europe and the United States. In September 1918, 387 people died per day in the United States from influenza, all 12,000 people. As a comparison of what happens in october in amerka union, 6300 people died per day due to influenza reached a staggering total, 195 000 deaths in that month. This is one of the worst month of death in the history of the United States.

3.Epidemi AIDS Worldwide Late 1970s-Until today more than 22 million people killed

AIDS-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a disease caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)-human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS appeared in Africa in the 1950s, possibly originating from a green monkey and believed to have been transmitted to humans when monkeys infected by the HIV virus has infected lab worker. In the late 1970s in the thought that a prmugara who is gay in the airline known as patient zero who brought AIDS to North America. This man who later died of cancer in 1984 believed to have been infected gay men in ten cities through s ** s are not safe and the disease began to spread quickly in the gay community. While this has become widespread among women and children. UNAIDS and WHO estimate that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981, making AIDS as one of the most devastating epidemic in history. AIDS epidemic claimed that the estimated 2.8 million (between 2.4 and 3.3 million) live in 2005 and more than half a million (570,000) are children. In 2005, between 3.4 and 6.2 million people are infected and between 2.4 and 3.3 million people with AIDS died, an increase from 2003 and the highest number since 1981. Whatever the means of spreading the HIV virus or the social group most affected, the reality is that AIDS is one of the worst pandemics ever struck mankind. If the virus mutates so that bias malalui infectious air, then AIDS is very easy to destroy life on earth.
4.Wabah Chinese Famine of 1876 China's northern people were killed from 1876 to 1878 = 9000000-13000000

Outbreaks of this terrible famine was the worst outbreak in the history of China and in fact in the history of the world's gave birth to the phrase portrayal "ten thousand man hole." Ten thousand human hole is a very large mass graves that hold tens of thousands of corpses. There are so many holes to ten thousand people throughout the provinces in northern China during this famine plague broke through to near 13 million in a period of 3 years. Nearly 12,000 people have died within a day. The reason is the drought that set fire to the northern Chinese province of years 1876-1878. Almost inconceivable that this huge area of ​​bias persist for years without rain, but this is what happens in China that began in 1876. In situations of this kind of hunger, crime rose sharply and suicide become the norm occur and continue. Cannibalism and the act of selling children are menakutkkan response to this terrible suffering. At the end of the 1878 rainy season has returned towards the north. Field back in planted rice and crops to grow back.

5.Kekeringan, outbreaks of famine, and epidemics in China during the 14th century - 1333-1347 = More than 9 million people have been killed

Wrath Various Elements.
This period begins with a dry season burning in southeast China. That was followed by heavy downpours that have devastated more than 400,000 people. When those who survived tried to overcome this tragedy, the earthquake had caused the collapse of the mountain Tsincheou that are not located not far from there, followed by a parting of the earth so that claimed more victims again. Beginning next month, in 1334, precisely in Canton had a huge flood. Ironically Tche city experienced a very severe drought that led to an epidemic that has claimed the lives of many more. Several months later, the same region was hit by a powerful earthquake that caused the overflow of the mountain collapsed and a giant crater. Thousands of people drowning death dilubang which has formed this earthquake. The following year, the year 1335, in drought-hit areas of Hunan for 5 months to bring an outbreak in its various forms. Tens of thousands were killed. In 1336 the southern part of China hit by a wave up and down that horrible. In the case of a combination of drought followed by floods which affected the outbreak the worst famine in history. This plague has killed 4 million people. Of course this much death followed by the increasing number of locusts as well as the floods that occur periodically and then the earthquake that occurred during 6 full days.
In 1338, the ancient city Kingsai and surrounding areas have been hit by an earthquake which reportedly lasted for 7 days. Followed by the spread of locusts which increased the misery of hunger this. Year 1339 from Hecker cited essay: "Mountain Hot chang has collapsed and caused flooding that destroy and after the rain for three months followed by a pool of water on Pien tcheon and Leang tcheou that had destroyed seven cities" of 1340-1343 has brought catastrophic earthquake occurred repeatedly in China.tahun 1344 brought a very large tsunami that destroyed the city Ventcheou. Year 1345 has witnessed floods and famine in Kitcheou and this period ended by a flood in 1346 in Canton. Whatever the distance, at any time any person can become victims of diseases that come from other corners of the earth.

6.Bencana drought, famine and disease plague the southern and western India; northwestern Punjab region of India from 1896 to 1901 = 8.25 million people were killed.

Over a period of 5 years (1896-1901) India has been experiencing a bad drought that has constantly resulted in outbreaks of diseases that do not know twelve Kasian and deadly. Over the past 5 years that has claimed the lives of approximately 8.25 million.Amount menguncangkan with more than 4700 deaths per day. Beginning in 1896, southern and western India appears to have no end drought covering an area more than three hundred thousand miles (480.000km) square and the peak years of 1896-1901 a terrible famine in which 6juta of Indians were killed. Followed by the nightmare of drought and outbreaks of disease during the two years that has claimed the lives of approximately 2.25 million Indians. At first the people starving from the most severe the region had to find another region that has something to eat. They ate cactus plants, roots, fruit strawberry fruit wherever they are found even eat grass. Finally, the number of victims die and merajelalanya hunger has led to things that are not inevitable: cannibalism. As has been witnessed throughout history, people are forced to eat human flesh when the hungry are not overwhelming. Drought is inevitable but disease outbreaks can be suppressed and treated. Unfortunately India is poor country, then the number of victims who died during the period of 5 years is an alarming loss in human life and became an epic about the example of dumb suffering of mankind.

7.Wabah hunger-Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 = 7 million people were killed.

Outbreaks of famine was named as "the biggest crime of Stalin." As reported in thre great international disaster book written by James Cornell, the soviet union have been exporting 1.7juta tons in 1932 and 1.8juta tons of rice in 1933, makana materials that can meet the 17.5 million people with a thousand calories per day for two years. Harvest is plentiful but the government imposed strict measures against the peasants, so they had to give 70% of all of the harvest. A number of farmers trying to survive selling everything they own including their clothing in order memeli rye bread on the black market. Bread is often contaminated by a fungus which can lead to gangrene and in the worst case of death and starvation. If found to hide the food will ditembang. Cannibalism is a last resort for those who hunger. Human meat sauce and meat jelly bersaus often sold in secret. Soviet government under Stalin's secret famine plague this from the outside world and strict control of what may be dilipu by foreign journalists. Stalin was looking for a shortcut for this plague of hunger by distributing confiscated rice to the hungry. just wrote .. hue (_ _ ")

8.Wabah starving Volga Region, ukraine soviet union from 1921 to 1923 = 5 million people dead

As with the 1932 outbreak of famine in Ukraine that has claimed 7 million people (according to the book Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine), outbreaks of famine in 1921 an outbreak of famine in fertile soil. The government took the peasant food for later sale. It is true that the drought has occurred in Ukraine in the spring and summer of 1921 that resulted in crop failure up to 75%.However, the last harvest in Ukraine as a whole enough to give food to people who are starving. As with all long-term famine plague, cannibalism became commonplace. The children devoured by their parents; the bodies are cut and eaten by starving peasants. In the year 1921-1923 famine in Ukraine has ended the 1923 fall season in which this region enjoys a very large harvest. However, the damage caused by outbreaks of hunger does not vanish and the various efforts made over the next few years.

9.Epidemi smallpox Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua. 1520-1521 = 4,000,000 people were killed.
In 1519, Cortes (a Spanish explorer) brought smallpox from Puerto Rico to South America, especially Mexico and has resulted in the death of the Aztec natives who have no biological resistance amounted to between 3 million-4 million inhabitants. This is one of the most devastating epidemic in human history. Actually not only the Cortes who spread smallpox to the Aztecs. One of her dark skin slaves who had been infected but immune to the establish contact with the Aztecs have started this epidemic. which eventually destroyed the ancient Aztec empire. It is believed smallpox was eradicated completely in 1980, with the emergence of cases in Somalia last time in 1977.

England sweating 10.Demam 1485-1551 = 3 million people died.

This disease first appeared in 1485 from the writings of someone who is Italian, "a new disease permeates the entire royal family of the actual outbreak is scary .. sudden deadly attack the body's sweat, tear it down with pain in the head and abdomen, especially the terrible heat sensation occurred. Therefore, the patients get rid of the covers from the beginning, if they are dressed, they will remove their clothes, people who should be drank cold water, which suffer from this fetid heat, sweat the smell is not good .. all of them dying or no longer be dying after sweating begins, so no one or any of a hundred people who spared him "sweating fever in England, a terminal disease, also known as sudor Anglicus who had swept the English as much as five times and once the European mainland claimed the lives of approximately 3 million over a period of 66 years. Fever sweat sink inactive for 23 years after his first appearance, before reappearing in 1508 followed by a wave of illness in 1517, 1528 and 1551. It is believed that the epidemic in 1528 was the worst. After sweating a fever in 1551 never again found diinggris or in europe. Sweat is a kind of fever is contracted hantavirus by inhaling mouse droppings. Again, rodents and fleas are everywhere, has brought plague upon humanity and causing the number of victims who died very large.

11.Banjir Yellow rivers and streams of China 2297 BC Yang tse-twentieth century = Number of countless victims.
Yellow River in northern China is known as the "pain of China" because of the suffering he causes to the people who live within range of life-giving water and water perenggut this life. Yellow River whose length is 2903 miles (4670 km) is the longest river in the world-6 that provides irrigation to more than 640,000 square kilometers and has a width of 1.5 km. High content of yellow mud have given him the name. Yellow River flood was reported to have experienced more than one thousand five hundred times since the year 2297 BC. While the Yangtse river has a length of 3434 miles (5525 km) flows from Tibet to the east china sea. Yangtse has become a trade and transportation route since the past.

The following overview some major flooding Yellow River and Yangtse:
2297 BC, the Yellow River: According to ancient records flooding occurred during 13tahun. Not much determines the certainty of this catastrophe.
September-October 1887, the Yellow River: This river levee break into the high 21 meters in cheng chou in Honan province flooded 11 cities and 600 villages. At least 900,000 people have died, 2 million people lose their homes; and 75000km square under water.
September 1911, Yangtse river: Yangtse spill that flooded more than 700 square miles.At least 200,000 people drowned and another 100,000 died of starvation in the weeks after her. August 1931, Yellow River: Flood was preceded by a dry season for 2 years who have drowned 140,000 people and makes 10 million people homeless. Flood affects 51 million people and the number of reported deaths due to drowning, disease and famine plague reported as many as 3.7 million.
1933, Yellow River: Impact of life 2.7juta people and kill 12,700 people.
1935, Yellow River: Flooding the province of Hankow, 30,000 people drowned and 5 million people homeless.
April 1938, the Yellow River: Chiang Khai Sek ordered to blow up a dam to stop the Japanese attack. This creates a flood in the scale of the disaster, which may 500000-800000 people died. And millions more homeless.
1939, Yellow River: At least 500,000 people were drowned and many millions more died from the plague of hunger that follows after the flood.
August 1950, Yangtse river: A total of 489 people drowned, but 10 million people homeless, 890,000 houses were destroyed and millions of hectares of paddy submerged completely.
August 1954, Yangtse river: claimed more than 40,000 lives and made 1 million people homeless.
23 April 1969, the Yellow River: Hundreds of thousands of people died and 1500km square shantung province flooded completely.
July 1981, Yangtse river: in the province of Szechwan 753 people drowned and 28,140 people reported missing and 1.5juta people lose their homes due to flooding.
July-August 1996, the Yangtse River and Yellow River: A total of 2775 people drowned, 234 000 people were injured, 8 million people were evacuated, 4.4 million people left homeless and 8 million hectares of rice fields destroyed. Cause damage valued at $ 20.5 billion.
July-August 1998, Yangtse river and Shoshun: This is the worst flooding in northern China 44tahun. The total number of 4150 people drowned, 180 million people affected, 13.3 million homes were damaged or destroyed. The total damage worth $ 26 million.

Irish Potato Famine 12.Wabah 1845-1850 = 1,029,552 people were killed and 1,180,409 emigrated economic losses worth $ 725 million
Outbreaks in Irish potato famine and collectivization of Stalin both pick the equation.Stalin let millions of its own people starve while he was exporting tons of wheat to raise the State treasure chest. When the potato crop in Ireland failed in 1845 due to plant diseases, the Irish State still exporting crops and livestock to England while the Irish people starved to death or died from diseases caused by malnutrition. Potatoes are the most important crop in Ireland. Potatoes mixed with a little milk and butter sometimes eaten with cabbage in small doses, this is the original farmers of Ireland's main menu.Irish potato farmers generally eat nearly 4kg of potatoes a day. As the population becomes increasingly weak and started to suffer hunger of various diseases including typhoid, cholera, dysentery, fever, pneumonia and various other ailments caused by low nutrition, weakness and hunger began to reign. Outbreaks of hunger has changed the face of ireland and leave a deep wound that still hurts to this day. This is the saddest tragedy in history.

13.Badai Ganges Delta of Bangladesh of 1970, eastern Pakistan 13 November 1970 = 1,000,000 people died.
The bodies meet the mainland, and difficult to walk without stepping on the corpse.Corpses hung from trees, terrible. Like a rotten fruit that has a face and limbs. Millions of dead cow floating in the Ganges and the delta, and the water The immediate change to red. The ships were scattered on the mainland, away from the water in which they were previously tied. Nassar Birds eat with satiated for days after the storm subsided. 15-meter-high giant tsunami that came with angina quail hit with vicious, leaving these small islands as though never on live. The number of casualties reported by the new york times more than 1 million people dead. Three days before the whirlwind that brought this disaster hit, the wind is at detection was about as far as the Ganges delta 1.200km south east Pakistan which is now Bangladesh. A report from the island beach, in Burma (now Myanmar) has warned the islands in the Ganges delta coast. However, this report is denied or ignored for two reasons. First is the fact that approximately one month earlier, similar reports have been submitted and the storm had been predicted to be small with only a small number of dead. The second reason, this warning is not considered seriously is a lot of people at risk is not heard because they do not have electricity and radio batteries. Therefore, many people are right in dijalur this murderer was in a state do not know fully about the storm that is coming.
After the tragedy occurred, the Pakistani government does not care to give aid than foreign governments. Response time was the capital of Pakistan, Karachi, which is very apathetic and did not deserve eventually lead to revolution. The people of Pakistan who survived the storm entered into a bloody civil war to liberate themselves from the Pakistani government. Which then gives birth to the State of Bangladesh.

Great Earth 14.Gempa Shensi Province in China, Honan and Shanshi january 23 1556 = 830 000 more die
Shensi china earthquakes in 1556 held the title of a sad as the most deadly earthquakes in history. The death toll reached 830,000 a shake and feel in 212 provinces in china with magnitude 8.3. Many of the thousands of deaths from this earthquake experienced by people who were buried alive. Thousands of Chinese farmers have dug caves in the cliff side of the soft in this area and they lived in this hollow place. Shenshi cliffs made of gray mud and easily assembled in the tunnel, but unfortunately not so solid. At the moment the earthquake struck on 23 January this, this mountain has happened to thousands of Chinese people are not expecting it. They all died under the rubble weighing tons and tons of air. The destruction covers an area of ​​eight hundred square kilometers. Few other details are known of this most tragic earthquake.

15. Tangshan earthquake, China Tangshan China 27 July 1976 = 655 000 people dead.
Tangshan earthquake in China in 1976 believed to be the deadliest earthquake in the twentieth century. The number of victims killed as many as 655,000 inhabitants with magnitude 7.1. massive development effort took nearly ten years and cost $ 8juta.Physical activity from the mainland during the Tangshan earthquake is an admirable proof of the incredible power trapped beneath the earth's surface. Hundreds of thousands of residents who were sleeping diranjang killed instantly; hundreds of thousands were injured and thousands of deaths and injuries finally catch up due to illness. The number of bodies were buried a very large outbreak of more help.Government's failure to warn catastrophe of this kind make the number of victims and physical damage increases.

16.Wabah hunger 16 provinces in the southwestern Russian Winter 1891-1892 = 407 000 people dead.
Starvation is a slow and hidden ways to die. You could say people will eat anything when they are hungry. Just to put something in their stomachs are empty and screaming.Starving people have been known to swallow stones, sand and even their own feces when the hunger becomes unbearable. In Russia in 1891-1892, the level of desperation of this kind are widespread. People named it as "Bread Hunger" or "Bread Plague Hunger. This bread is a disgusting blob of weeds, combined with the chopped straw, tree trunks and sand. People will mix these ingredients together with water and perhaps also the grain in very small amounts (if they have it), and burn it all into hard clumps of yellow-black denominations that do not contain any nutrients and only serves as something solid in the stomach empty. All this happened because in 1891 Russia is very bad harvest due 5bulan period without rain or very little rain fell just before harvest.

Pes 17.Wabah Constantinople 542 BC = 300,000 people were killed.
In Constantine (now Istanbul, Turkey) during the mid-sixth century, life expectancy for men is for 25 -30 years. Life expectancy is even shorter for women and age when women marry is around 14 years. For growing populations. As short and difficult life in because of an outbreak of a pandemic at the time. Plague was known as Pes plague that struck Constantinople in 542. outbreaks of this disease is estimated to have killed 300,000 people in Constantinople in a year. The houses were filled with rotting corpses and mass graves into a common problem. Soon the death rate became so high and so fast. Thousands of corpses were taken to the beach and piled up there to left to rot; also piled up the corpses in the streets, resulting in a pervasive stench and hung in the city like a pall. Within a year the disease spread by ticks are almost invisible this has to do what can not be carried out by the conquering forces: an end to the roman empire and the beginning of the dark ages.

18.Gempa earth Syrian Antioch Syrian Antioch 20 May 526 BC = More than 250,000 people were killed.
Fire wrap everything in the city, except the land on the ground, the fire seems to have been receiving orders from God that all living things must be in the fuel. Antioch is a city of religion and culture of the ancient world that flourished, the city is a triumvirate along with Alexandria in Egypt and Rome in Italy. Earthquakes with more force 7 Richter hit in the early evening around 6 o'clock. damage occurs with instantaneous and very severe.Almost every building in Antioch has collapsed and the rest on to death almost as much as 250,000 inhabitants. After the initial shock there was silence and tranquility, which was immediately followed by aftershocks shake the resolve of this destruction. Fires occur immediately burn alive those who are trapped in the rubble. When the dust had subsided, there are still thousands of people of Antioch who survived and remained in the city. They would rebuild their city. For two years they worked., Houses built, rubble and ruins of the Holly and the churches in the wake and at the start. However, two years later an earthquake hit the back of Antioch. This time not as severe as the first but has been pulling down the entire building and killed 5000 people. And history also say goodbye to Antioch.

19.Gempa earth ChinaTahun Gansu Province Gansu16 1920 december 1920 = 200,000 people dead
Witnessing the work that had taken so much time and hard work man torn down in just one minute it was bitter and invite a sense of shame, even so, compassion for the citizens of the city was nearly forgotten in a moment of passionate interest since discovered that the various objects in the production of period, where a used to link this with the turn of the century. Charles Darwin-March 1835 earthquakes in 1920 that rumble through China's Gansu province is one of the natural disasters that are full of "things that are not possible." During the magnitude 8.6 earthquake, the region along the width of 480km and 160km has turned into something similar to "ocean of solid objects." Mainland bergemlombang move up and down, as if this land is water, the mountains shake with the rough and torn apart, causing many survivors believe that the mainland has moved places and giant stones have been crashing mercilessly hit Gansu province. The death rate is estimated at 180,000 inhabitants. 20,000 people have died from the cold during the winter. They do not want to build new settlements because they were shocked and stunned by the disaster was shocking. So they spend the cold season in the open. Gansu region then was hit by a major earthquake in 1927 where 100,000 people were killed and then happen again in December 1932 when 70,000 people were killed. In a period of 12 years, 370,000 people have been killed in a geographical region of China.

20.Gempa earth Messina, Messina Sisilia28 december 1908 = 160,000 people were killed.
We all were asleep when awakened by a horrible vibration. Vibration is throwing us out of bed. At this scary and precarious chimneys crumbling above us with no rest forever.Facing death at every step we. The first vibration occurred at 5.25. These vibrations arise from the Strait of Messina underwater. Followed by a tsunami-speed 500 miles (800km) per hour and as high as 50 feet (15meter). Causes broken gas pipes, burst water pipes, fire raged and the bodies everywhere. Until now, there is still disagreement about the actual number of people killed in this terrible earthquake, tsunami and fire as well. But three separate sources each citing the death rate as much as 160,000 people.

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