The Pacific Ring of Fire is a chain of volcanoes, running along the coastline of various continents bordering the Pacific Ocean. It's a notoriously geologically unstable region that is home to over 75% of the world's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes and other than the Haiti Earthquake of 2010, this area has been victim to more natural disasters and human devastation than any other this century. Starting with the 2004 earthquake that erupted off the back edge of t
he Ring of Fire and started the tsunami that destroyed numerous vacation destinations and took countless lives. So may lives were lost that no one is sure, but its estimated that 231,000+ lives vanquished. The 2008 Sichuan China earthquake had 69, 195 causalities. Last month in Christchurch, New Zealand approximately 200 lives were taken in a 6.3 earthquake. On March 10, in China near Myanmar another 24 lives fell to a 5.8 quake. An now as the disaster unfolds in Japan and reports blanket the Internet, Japan may be experiencing it's worst natural disaster in history that began with an 8.9 earthquake yesterday and followed by at least one 6.3 aftershock. Some 1300+ lives are missing with a minimum of 675 confirmed dead.
Life is precious and fleeting. Prayers go out to all that are suffering or have suffered.
Al,
the Travel Valet
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