Natural Disasters
It was a frosty morning of
December with a flurry of snow falling, covering the whole ground with a white
soft sheet.
The temperature was
around -2 when I, reluctantly, got out of my warm bed. After having taken a
delightful warm shower, I changed my sleeping dress and came out of my room. Next,
I rushed to my father’s
room to wake him up because we both were to pay a visit to Aunt Saima who had had
a small accident last evening, and was consequently hospitalized. Once having made
sure father was wide awake, I dashed to my own room upstairs to put my mobile
phone onto the charger. As I was about to pick up the charger, the wooden floor
of my room started trembling raucously. I bawled” Mama, it’s an earthquake.”
And spurt down to the ground floor to see whether she was safe enough.
----------------------------------------------------
“At around 9:00 in the
morning, northern areas of Pakistan were hit by a devastating earthquake of
destructive magnitude of 8.3. It has wrecked havoc. Houses were dismantled in
many areas, roads lying fractured, and numerous tall buildings were collapsed.
The intricate communication system has been enormously interrupted as a result of
which some of mountainous cities have got cut off from the rest of Pakistan”
News anchors were busy blurting out shocking details.
In total 25,000 houses
were eradicated from the face of earth; 33km of road was fractured, 8750 people
died and a total financial loss of 3.7 billion dollars was estimated by the ministry
of information a month later after the earthquake.
Ever since that tragic
moment of my life, I have been doing some research on natural disasters and I
have got quite a few answers to questions like why natural disasters occur, how
they can be prevented etc.
A natural disaster is a
major adverse event resulted in earth’s
natural processes. There are many types of natural disasters. To list a few are
earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruptions, avalanches, floods, etcetera.
When we have a look at
the history, it comes out natural calamities have been hitting humans’ puny
settlements and destroying them effortlessly since time immemorial. Man has
been curious to know about the reasons behind such occurrences and which is why
science along with religion have been giving their answers.
Science explains that
natural disasters occur due to disorder in nature’s cycle, like floods are triggered due to
heavy rain showers, and heavy rain is caused by increased heat caused by man’s caustic activities like deforestation,
pollution etc. that lead to furthering the damage to already injured ozone layer.
On the other hand, religions
answer that natural calamities are from God’s side at regular intervals just to warn
man and test his resilience, patience, and obligatory abilities. Moreover,
these disasters occur when society is inclined towards sinful and evil
activities that attract God’s wrath.
Although, science and
religion have proved that natural disasters cannot be stopped from happening,
but what one can do is to curtail its holocausts effects to some extent by
reducing pollution, stopping deforestation etc. Man has developed such
technology that can detect disastrous weathers and signs to help evacuate such areas
in advance from humans, animals and other assets so as to save lives and avoid
other losses.
We also need to rectify
our manners to help us avert God’s
wrath. Big powers, this day, are mostly busy suppressing those around in a race
to establish their monopoly. Moreover, interest-based economy too is a form
cruelty. These and other kinds of cruelty on earth, I believe, need to be mitigated
sooner than later. If so happens, we will obviously be safe from being faced
with such seismic disorders that result in ravaging natural calamities, and
will start enjoying much peaceful a time on earth, or else such brutal earthquakes
will go on hitting us even harder in future.
This world runs in an
ostentatious order and we are to keep it same or be ready to face the ravaging
natural calamities?
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Written by: Sohaib Zahir |
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