Earthquake is one the most powerful disaster in front of mankind.the death had rolled over 1.2 million in the past 100 years in twentith century. After the quake, people deeply felt the insignificant of human beings in front of the merciless nature.
In 1906 a magnituge 7.8 earthquake hit Sanfrancisco. Thousands of people died within short hours and triggerd blazing fire .Suddenly, the most bustling metropolis on the west coast of America became the rubble .However, that was the beginning of the a hundrend- year long disaster. On December16,1920, a magnitude 8.5 earthquake hit Haiyuan,Ningxia Hui Autonomy Region in China ,where the epicenter intensity reached 12 and total 240000 people were killed .The quake heppend in Chile was reached the appalling 8.9 magnitude,and the 7 magnituge aftershocks happed 10 times,triggering the greatest tsunami in last century, with six extinct volcanos rerupted and three new volcanos appeared. During the quake, about 6000people were killde or missing.
Here,we do not need to recalculate how powerful the quakes are . Every time when the light collision ,extrusion and crack of earth’s crust would brought unprecedented catastrophe to human. Unfortunately, once the only earth we rely on is rotating one day, such kind of thing will always happen.
After gone through so mang times of powferful quakes, we had to admit that human’s life was so strong and tenacious also had to sign that human’s facial expression were so diverse and complex.
If you want to describe the expression by words, then 1923’sGuandong great eartquake should be “disappointing ”1933’s Diexi great eartquake should be ”angry”, while that of Tangshan in1976 should be”greif” and 2005’s Kashmir should be “reconcile”.
On the september1,1923 , the Guandong great eartquake changed the citys of Tokyo and Yokohama into the hell on earth . Magnitude 8.3earthquake caused 140000 people to die .After several days, the Japanese government announced to rebuilde the two cities on the same location. We can see the Dahe nation was so strong and firm that 70 years later when the quake happened again in Banshen they were able to deal with the it efficiently. Through the solid anti- quake buildings and orderly aseismatic measure,we still could see that the plentiful heritage the precious quake left behind .A t the same time , Guandong great eartquake was the “ the darknest beginning” from the Da zheng period to the Rizhao period.
That the various economic, racial ,resouce issues fully broke out would become the foreshadowing of the exploration of “ new continent”.
In 1933, the most greatest eartquake hit Diexi in twentith century.The one thouand year- old town sank into the bottom of the lake forever. That was the time when war-horse coming from different places figthted each other.Though the local authority asked for help, there was no any help . so that common people had to live on cadgeing .Later the fllod heppened ,tens of millions of victims witnessed by tears and blood the darkest moment of Cichuan disaster history.
If Diexi earthquake was forgotten by people becauce it was happened in lone times ago and in the remote area,Tangshan great earthquake had become the permanent grief of Chinese people.3:42 on July28,1976,the magnitude 7.8 quake lasted only ten seconds but became the biggest disaster of mankind in the twentith century.
About240000 people were killed ,it had became the criterion of disaster in Chinese people’s memory.
Kashmir quake happed in 2005, the two neighbouring enemy countries: India and Pakistan setted the prejudice aside in front of disaster and open actual control line to make people see a thread of light in the quake.
Enumerating the expression after the quake is not just repeating the grief and bitter brought by quakes,but encouraging people to believe their shtrong power duqing the harsh experience.It is becauce such expriences that people can see the hope of renascence.