Days when the cities were torn apart

Last night I was browsing through NASA websites just to escape from daily routine of TVs and SimCity. there was this picture about Toba Caldera that was one of the most powerful explosive as it erupted during prehistoric times million years ago and affected climate throughout the world. The Toba lake that we see today is the result of an eruption that has form a basin-like structure filled with water, surrounding what we called today the Samosir island. An island on top of mountains.

Anyway, It reminded me of the Krakatoa’s eruption that was one of the most powerful volcano.

(The most powerful in Indonesian history was the tambora which had an exploding power four times the 1883 Krakatoa and caused the world’s ‘year without summer’ on 1816). Some of its eruptions produced tremendous effect on our earth. The 1883 eruption was one of the loudest ever heard in human history. It surged earth’s temperature by 3 deg.C, lower than it should be. It separates the island of Sumatera from Java. Killing civilizations underneath its greatness.

(many other stories about this at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa.)

This flashed me to one of the sura in Koran (which i read just hours before) (you probably want to check it yourself. Al-a’raf) It’s about God destroyed civilization at noon, at night, or at afternoon when people sleeps (this is not a direct quotation from The Holy Koran). this reminds me of The 2004 tsunami that occurred on Sunday 26th Dec. which is the day when we usually sleep at (’till) noon. Sundays, Fridays, Saturdays, Holidays, School break, National days and so on. Well, basically, it’s any day that people are usually off from their daily activity.

so i get an idea that some of the deadliest natural disasters might have occurred during people’s ‘off day’…

Only on the next day (today) I got a chance to answer this curiosity. I searched the pages related to massive natural disaster. On the other window i opened a calender converter where i can just key in a date and get to know the day. Some of the dates answer my quest. you might want to check this yourself as well.

> the Krakatoa eruptions on 1883 , started on Aug 26th.

> Mt St.Helens May 18th 1980

> Bhola Cyclone (Pakistan) November 13th 1970 –> killed 500.000++

> Shanxi Earthquake January 23rd 1556 –> killed 830.000++ (You need to open Chinese lunar calendar converter to figure what occasion happened around this date)

> Lisbon EarthQuake November 1st 1755 destroyed 85% of buildings in the city

So far only those above fit my quest. i may need to search more and find more connections.

>>>from human come all the mistakes, from God only comes the truth.<<<

God is the All-Knowing

>>> as we know that a message will (should) be better conceived during a person’s relax mode. Have we gotten the Message? <<<

Mar.2.2007 / 12am