[Mr Andrews]

What I find interesting is how most of these natural disasters (though not all) happen in these areas with a fair degree of regularity. You would think that knowing this, people would try to design for what they know is bound to happen. I mean in snowy climates people build with steep roofs and elevated doorways. In tropical climates people tend to build houses with lots of windows and with roof with long overhands (for sade and rain diversion); in areas that flood regularly people tend to build on stilts.
I'm suprised why over the thousands of years that people have inhabited certain specific parts of the world that regularly get hit by the same type of disastrous event, they haven't come up with tried and true designs to help reduce damage.

[chuecafressds]

I felt an eathquake 5 minutes ago.Weird..

[MaraReenece]

one of the reason that this happens is people don't have the money to build like that, Rachachelle's granny grew up in calcutta in a very deprived area and noone could afford to build with natural disasters in mind, basically using what they could find.
Even in some of the worlds richest countries it just doesnt happen, Japan can build earthquake and tornado resiliant buildings but the USA cant (or at least not for the people who need it most).
Look at New Orleans, the situation of the city and the year in year out extreme weather means it was a disaster waiting to happen and typically when it did happen the ones worst effected were the ones who couldn't afford to build in areas less at risk.
In the third world there's no such thing as building regulated houses for people it's everyone for themselves basically.