Quoting from [Katherine Cao]:
Superstition stems from ignorance .
It is only your point of view that major disasters happening in 2008 and many people are dying. Some people attribute it to bad omen, or bad luck, or fongshui.
But if you look at it in a different perspective, the disaster in South West China is lesser than than the Tsunami in 2004 on Boxing Day, which killed about 200,000 people. Most of them in Acheh, Sumatra, Indonesia.
The Kobe earthquake killed tens of thousands of Japanese, who are more prepared for such calamity than any other parts of the world.
However, the incidences of the natural calamity are on the rise during the last decade, there is more hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, fires and drought, hailstones, cyclones, all across the world, from South America, to the North America, to Japan, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Iran, Turkey, and South Asia. There are Scientists link it to a phenomenon which is man-made, global warming, but fall short of Religious people call it the End-time age.
Whatever it is the cause, we have to be ready for it, be prepared, not to put our stakes too deeply into the ground, and reduce the risk of loss in case of this unpredictable event that could happen to us.