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Originally Posted by The Strangler
Well all of these countries should feel much better now, as I just saw on TV that France has pledged $136,000 to the relief effort...
In case you didn't get it, that was DRIPPING with sarcasm. And people wonder why we hate France...
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$136,000??? and they were making fun of the US's $20 Million
you could rebuild one of the ocean side bungalos for the $136,000.... wow good job france...
other horrible natural disasters
The Great Tangshan Earthquake, 1976
it was in china and killed over 240,000 people (some reports say 655,000 people dead, and 780,000 injured, dunno why the differences so big) .... I doubt this will top that...
it's easy for a lot of people to die in one area when it is so over crowded.
The Great China Earthquake of 1556
The worse natural disaster in recorded history, at least in terms of lives lost, was caused by an earthquake in Hausien in the Shensi Province of China in 1556. The earthquake devastated 98 counties and eight provinces of Central China. The destruction spanned an area of 500 miles, and in some counties the average death toll was 60 percent of the population. A total of 830,000 people lost their lives, most of them from the collapse of poorly constructed houses. The magnitude of this earthquake has been estimated to be from 8.0 to 8.3 on the Richter scale.