A Dwindling Sense of Safety by risa
statistics show the planet to be increasingly unsafe. More than 2.5 billion people were affected by floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters between 1994 and 2003, a 60 percent increase over the previous two 10-year periods, U.N. officials reported at a conference on disaster prevention in January.
Those numbers don’t include millions displaced by last December’s tsunami, which killed an estimated 180,000 people as its monstrous waves swept over coastlines from Indonesia’s Aceh province to Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, and beyond.
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