Indonesia

      Indonesia, a country in Southeast Asia of 237 million habitants and 17, 500 islands has been feeling Mother Nature's wrath these past couple of days. Yesterday, an earthquake that qualifies as a 7.7 on the Richter scale hit the western islands causing a tsunami to reach shore. The waves weren't as bad as the 2004 tsunami that hit Southeast Asia; reaching only about 10-feet. Nonetheless, the death toll is considerable. Later in the afternoon in one of the eastern islands, Mount Merapi started spewing clouds of hot ash.
    
      All of these natural disasters urge me to ask the following: What is going on with the world? Is the Earth responding to the effects of global warming? Natural disasters seem to be happening more frequently and more violently. To a certain extent, are we to blame here?

What do you think?


-JorgeLuis

(Photo via indiatalkies.com/)

All information in this article via www.NYtimes.com

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