It is good to read about floods and avalanches, earthquakes, eruptions of volcanos, tornados and tsunami, being at a home in a recliner, on territory, wherever earth never trembled and did not leave from under feet, far from collapsing mountains and dangerous rivers. Thus avaricious numbers of statistics - the "number of victims of natural catastrophes makes for the last 100 16 thousands annually", - remain simply abstract numbers. To wait, while emergencies will come, that then in a fight against them to make sure only in one - too late, - here style of modern life. Example that - a tsunami is 2004, converting the paradisial coast of south-east Asia in a "morgue under open-skies". Besides that nature prepared quite a bit mortal traps to humanity, man and, moving progress, digs hole to itself. Dissatisfied by natural poisons, scientists synthesized 7 millions artificial. Megalopolises, distinguishing in an atmosphere contaminents, explosions, accidents, ship-wrecks, fires, catastrophes in mid air, numerous illnesses are paying for a human short-sightedness.The reliable recitals of 100 catastrophes that you will find in this book known in the world not only shock the tragedy but also compel to be thoughtful above that, how to be protected from a blind element and avoid unforeseeable consequences technical revolutions, that the words of French scientific Ламарка, written to them two centuries back, : "Setting of man as though consists in that, to destroy the family, preliminary doing earth useless for habitation", - remained words only.