Often we think of nature as a sort of "doting grandmother", admiring the flowers, beautiful scenery and watching peacefully babbling brook.The impression is deceptive, because sometimes it shows its true power.
example is the earthquake the strongest in the world.More precisely, we will talk about a few cases known to us, as different scholars and historians are too similar in their assessments.
sad list crowns disasters in India.It happened not so long ago, in 1950.All the old Indians recall with horror the day pounding the earth, and thousands of people disappeared without a trace in huge cracks in the earth.There was all this in the city of Assam, which was located on the east coast of the country.
Officially it is - the most powerful earthquake in the world in the last millennium.Unfortunately, the sad title of this event was not just.
In particular, none of the meters have not been able to fix it a real force on the Richter scale, as they just rolls over.Official science later awarded him 9 points, although all the surviving Indian scientists from Assam in one voice told that these figures are false, that really is a monstrous earthquake was many times stronger.
Their words fully confirm details of American colleagues who, being thousands of kilometers from the epicenter of the disaster, without any instruments recorded its consequences, as aftershocks formidable force even sunk to the central state!That is indeed the most powerful earthquake in the world.
the same day in Japan sounded the alarm: recorded by sensors tremors were so strong that the country's forces GO terminated tube, trying to find out what is happening Prefecture as a major earthquake.
What was their surprise and horror when they learned that the disaster, which occurred in the distant India, echoed strong underground vibrations even in them!
This is the strongest earthquake in the world only because of the small size of the city (completely destroyed) cost India a thousand victims.If something like that happened in the same Delhi, terrible to imagine the consequences ...
Unfortunately, the Chinese people a lot less fortunate.In 1976, something happened that all historians believe the worst cataclysm in the history of modern civilization, referring to the incredible number of victims.
It is a cataclysm in Hebei Province.Then the force of underground sects was "only" 8.2 points, which is much weaker Indian incident, that's just even according to official figures, among the dead were 250 thousand people.
terrible figures.Of course, this is not the most powerful earthquake in history, but analysts believe that the authorities in China have lowered the casualty figures in 3-4 times.
What about our country?Are we lucky to live in a stable place on the planet?Unfortunately, it is not.
The strongest earthquake took place in Russia recently - 28 May 1995 Sakhalin.This - a black day in our history.In that fateful morning the power shocks was up to 10 points.
Because of the small population of all would do, but the main impact force took over the city Neftegorsk, which then ceased to exist.It killed more than two thousand people.
most tragic is that the local school that day gathered graduates.Of the 26 children, only nine survived.
