AFAICS, the death toll and destruction in Burma and China were not really the result of 'natural disasters'; but of a total and abject failure of planning regulations and building controls.
If you build lots of homes on a low-lying coastal flood plain in a region prone to cyclones, you are asking for trouble. Ditto allowing non-earthquake proof buildings to be built in an earthquake zone.
See also New Orleans, Indonesia etc.
What have we wrought in the UK?
7 hours ago
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You mean there is a role for state intervention!?!
PS Don't forget that New York City is almost as likely to suffer a severe earthquake as San Francsico...
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