Natural Disasters everywhere

Poor Salvador: On October 1, the Ilamatepec volcano, located about 40 miles west of the nation’s capital, San Salvador (Santa Ana), spewed hot lava rock, volcanic ash, and toxic gases, hot mud flows and a plume reaching 40,000 feet. On the same day, they got hit with Hurricane Stan.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/carintern/112895887966.htm

There are currently nine ongoing "significant eruptions."

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/history.html

Earthquakes are happening everywhere. Sinse the beginning of October, there have been dozens and dozens of earth quakes all over the world. But the good news is that so far this year we have had only 10 quakes of magnitude 7.0 - 7.9 (the yearly average is 17.) The average for mag 8 is one per year!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

It was only last December, that Magnitude 9.0 - Sumatra-Andaman Islands quake and tsunami killed 283,100. This was the fourth largest quake in the world since 1900. The strongest (9.5) struck Chile in 1960 killing about 2,200 in Chile, Hawaii, the Phillipines and Japan and also causing damage along the west coast of the United States.