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.
Most of the earthquakes between 2001 and 2017 have been recorded in China, followed by Indonesia and Iran, but Haiti reaches the highest death toll with just one earthquake in 2010, where – according to the Haitian government- more than 200.000 people died. Over 90.000 people died during 3 earthquakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo while 86 earthquakes in China resulted in roughly the same number of fatalities.
