Counted among those who intuitively sense that something big is about to happen and because of this intuition, I began my search for information relating to the escalating worldwide disasters earlier this year.  Over the course of the past ten years, I’ve subconsciously registered the fact that worldwide catastrophes have been occurring much more frequently than in the past decades and certainly past centuries.  Perhaps, in past centuries, recording these events and amassing them into a worldwide database proved to be somewhat difficult for the technology of the times and that may be a reason for the seemingly low number of disasters recorded.  In any event – to my mind at least, over the past three decades, I’ve noticed that there has been a rather marked increase in disastrous and catastrophic events worldwide.  This dramatic increase in worldwide events appears to have had it’s beginning in and around the year 1984.

A fairly comprehensive database listing natural disasters beginning in November of 1981 up to and including May 2000 can be found at: http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf

In searching various databases, I found one database that lists 18 volcanoes that have erupted since January 1, 2000.  Among the 18, several of the volcanoes have erupted more than twice since the beginning of the year.  A couple of the volcanoes have had a marked increase in seismic activity which warranted them being placed on the active/alert lists.

Another interesting database has shown that for the period May 5, 2000 to May 25, 2000 there have been approximately 300-recorded earthquakes worldwide.  The databases for the quakes can be found at: http://www.iris.washington.edu/seismic/60_2040_1_8.html  (this site is updated every 24 hours),
http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html & http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/qed/qed.html  Some of the earthquakes were very minor with intensities below 3.0 on the Richter scale; however, the vast majority of these earthquakes had varying intensities upwards of 4.0 on the Richter scale.  I don’t know – but to my untrained eye, 300 events in a 3-week period seem rather intense.  Could it be that our earth is preparing itself for some type of shift?

I increased the variables for the search to include all forms of natural disasters, epidemics and technological disasters, etc and this led me to a comprehensive database that has been compiled to include events from the year 1996 up until March 31, 2000.  http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/directory/index.html

754,047,232 people were affected by the 2,096 disasters listed in the database for the period of January, 1996 to December, 1999.

The database consists of 11,858 disasters which occurred between the years 1900 to the end of the year 1999.  That’s 11,858 events in 99 years.  For the first 83 years 1900 to 1983 the database reflects 4,557 disasters.  From 1984 to December 31, 1999 there were 7,281 disasters recorded in a 16 year period of time.

The increase in the frequency of worldwide disasters from 1984 until present is fairly clear.  Events listed in the database reflect 2,390 disasters for the period 1984-1989, 2,816 disasters for 1990-1995 and 2,096 disasters for the period 1996-1999. The initial data for the first three months of the year 2000 reflect 160 recorded disasters. Evidence exists which points to an incredible rise in the rates of worldwide disasters if anyone wishes to determine this for themselves.

On a personal note, aside from the facts, my alarm bells are ringing and chills are traveling up and down my spine.

Deborah Janveaux
mailto:djanveau@sunsetcountry.com
Red Lake, Ontario, Canada