Map of Catastrophes around the World
Orange-Climatological Events-extreme temp, drought, wildfires; Green-Meterological Events-storms; Blue-Hydrological Events-floods, mass movement; Red-Geophysical Events-earthquakes, tsunami, volcanos
According to end of the year research, the year of 2011 will go down in the record book as the costliest year on record for catastrophic losses around the world.
This was a year of epic earthquakes (Japan and New Zealand), numerous weather-related catastrophes such as the Texas-drought and wildfires, floods in the Near East related to tectonic land subduction in Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam and the Philippines, plus Flash Floods in Italy, Spain and France, Winter Storms in Swizerland and France, and earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand.
The earthquakes, and unusually large weather-related catastrophes ended the year with $380 billion (£298 billion) loss worldwide in economic losses. This record was 66% higher than 2005, the year of Hurricane Katrina which previously held the record lost at £220 billion.
According to the German reinsurance giant Munich RE, the payouts to insurance clients that were affected by natural disasters reached of $105 billion, a record set in claims for damage compensation. This was up from $101 billion a year ago.
According to their statistics, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March, 2011 produced damage claims between $35-40 billion. The earthquake, according to Munich Re cost an additional $13 billion, which may not have included the recent December quakes in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Also alarmed was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who reported stark warnings of the increasing evidence of the link between climate change and cataclysmic weather catastrophes. It was their prediction that these weather catastrophes would become more frequent. The argument is not that these changes are happening but how and why.
Over 27,000 people were victims to natural disasters also according to Munich RE in 2011. This did not include the tens of thousands who died in climatic famines by the continuing severe droughts along the Horn of Africa.
The statisticians at Munich RE claimed that the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami was “the biggest disaster of all times.” Yet it could have been worse for Japan’s infrastructure received only “moderate damage” secondary to their “strict construction regulations” on the island nation. The human toll was more devastating as more than 16,000 Japanese were killed, many of them swept away and never found.
It was the opinion of the Munich RE Geological Department that the risk of earthquakes was not increasing overall, yet the large tremors involved warn all that risk assessment should not be underestimated when considering building a nuclear power plant.
Then worse of the weather disasters was led by the epic floods in Thailand which almost put the entire capital of Bangkok under water. The rain and land subduction damages cost an estimate of $10 billion, while at the same time over 800 Thai citizens were killed. The economic toll cost included the loss of production of the Japanese car and electronic manufacturers in the country.
Guided only by statistical analysis and truly not with any prophetic insight, Munich RE spokesperson, Torsten Jeworrek told the news agencies;
Torsten Jeworrek – “A sequence of severe natural catastrophes like last year’s is a very rare occurrence. We had to contend with events with return periods of once every 1,000 years or even higher at the locations concerned.”
It appears that the statisticians for Munich Re have not been reading the prophesies of the Hebrew prophets lately. If anyone should ponder the number of catastrophes and link them as G-d's judgments of biblical proportions, then the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel in the United States and Europe must beware!
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The combined prophesies by the Hebrew prophet of Israel have been emphatic that at the time of the End, epic weather and climatic condition will change the entire continental plate structure of Planet Earth. Like the Exodus from Egypt, in a past era of devastating climatic and astrophysical changes that destroyed the largest empire of that era, so it will be at the end of the Age.
It is the promise by the G-d of Israel, that the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel during this era will be redeemed and restored back to the land of their forefathers. Maybe the next “door” that you must open must be to learn and comprehend more about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel to their Homeland in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. If it is, we invite you to Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
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