Moonwind said:As to the quake, it is absolutely awful! As to the number of deaths, I believe many of them were needless. This quake hit a 3rd World area, places where buildings have no structural integration and where mud bricks are one of the choice building materials. Because of that buildings many miles from the epicenter crumbled to dust, buring the people within them. If that quake had hit the US, Japan, or other western country with the building standards they have the deaths would have been much fewer and the distruction much less. Conversely, if Katrina had hit a 3rd World Country there would have been 10 or 20 times the deaths and distruction. So, this is a case of poor people getting a double whammy - nature and man.
Yeah, being poor's a *****!