manmade disaster
after the earthquake in haiti, there was a lot of nic-er talk about the biblical proportions of the disaster, and less nice talk about it being a curse from a pact with the devil. less about it being a manmade disaster.
lets do some math: the richter scale is exponential, with each point higher being 10 times stronger.
Haiti earthquake: 7.0
Chile earthquake: 8.8
Haiti death toll: 200,000
Chile death toll: 800
so the clile earthquake was close to 100 times more powerful than the chile one, yet the hait one had 250 times the death toll.
lets do some math: the richter scale is exponential, with each point higher being 10 times stronger.
Haiti earthquake: 7.0
Chile earthquake: 8.8
Haiti death toll: 200,000
Chile death toll: 800
so the clile earthquake was close to 100 times more powerful than the chile one, yet the hait one had 250 times the death toll.