A phone booth lies half-buried in volcanic ash after the eruption on Montserrat, 1998.
In 1783, a volcano called Laki erupted for eight consecutive months without ceasing. It caused a lot of damage, including, but not limited to, ruined crops, altered weather, lower temperatures, and human casualties. It killed about 9,000 people. Europe was downpour with acid rain which caused skin lesions in children and its victims. It also caused death to millions of cattle. And, of course, it brought famine.
We are witnessing an upsurge of natural disasters in the world in recent years. From great volcanic activities, to deathly earthquakes, to consuming tsunamis. These signs are predominate before the Second Coming of Christ. There will be wars and rumors of wars. That continues to be fulfilled.
Going back to natural disasters, the summary of which is catastrophic to the human population.
The Tangshan earthquake in China in 1975 killed 250,000 people. The Indian ocean tsunami of 2004 killed roughly 230,000.
Earthquake and tsunamis have never been known to cause extinction but volcanoes have repeatedly in history. We haven’t even considered a possible human extinction from asteroids colliding with the planet Earth.
Here again how deadly and destructive volcanoes can be. The total number of deaths from volcanoes over the last 300 years is somewhere 250,000 thousand, that’s about a quarter of a million. The total number of casualties from a hundred of the biggest recent volcano activities is no more than a biggest earthquake.
Volcanoes can bring death and destruction to animals and humans throughout the whole land. There are literally thousands of volcanoes that are active worldwide. Landmasses are formed and shaped by them. From the death and destruction from volcano activities come new hope and life.
However, it is still a deadly force to be reckoned with.