The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.
An earthquake is the movement of the ground, resulting from pressure between tectonic plates. Some places experience many earthquakes because they are located near to an active plate boundary.
The deadliest earthquake in this century was the earthquake was the one in the Indian ocean in December 2004 that triggered the tsunami. More than 220.000 people died then, in many different countries. As a country Haiti has the highest death toll from earthquakes, mostly from the major quake in 2010. Other major earthquakes in the 21 century were in China in 2008, Kashmir (India,Pakistan) in 2005, Turkey and Syria in 2023, Iran in 2003 and Japan in 2011.
