Act of nature

[Egapal]

Sometimes I wounder if there is a reason behind it?
Notice how it always seems to be the highly populated areas that get hit the hardest?
Might be trying to cull out some of the earths population?
I have always said humans are the biggest cancer on this planet.

There is a really good reason why highly populated areas get hit the hardest. Its because we measure how hard an area is hit by the devastation that is left. Nature tends to handle an earthquake much better than civilization. The more people there are the more we care about it. Natural disasters that hit unpopulated areas don't make the news in the same way. Keep in mind that Japan has had many earthquakes that are as big or bigger than the Haiti earthquake that we heard so much about. We never hear about them because no one dies. The earthquake in Japan was nearly 1000 times as powerful as the one that hit Haiti. The death toll in Haiti was over 200 times as many people.