Earthquake has become a key natural disaster that is hitting the world quite frequently in the last few years. Just a month back, Haiti was hit badly by an earthquake which killed over 10000 people. And Haiti is not likely to come back to normalcy at least till 2011 as most of the buildings have been reduced to rubbles.
Few days back, it was the turn of Chile to be hit by a massive earthquake, of 8.8 magnitude that has brought down over one hundred thousand buildings across the country. As per latest count, at least 700 people have been killed and over 600 are still missing.