The first tremble from beneath the earth was minor, and I thought it was a truck passing or the metro slithering underneath — normal things that make the streets rumble in this megalopolis. But the second shock hit with a force that launched me to my feet. The house swayed and twisted as if it were made of paper, and the city erupted into a cacophony of sirens and sounds of destruction as I stumbled out the front door. Suddenly, I was shirtless and shoeless in the street with my neighbors, being thrown back and forth by the ground that seemed to turn to liquid.....

Taken from:
https://www.ozy.com/true-story/i-survived-the-mexico-city-earthquake-this-is-my-story/81162

This was Man-made Disasters that happed in Korea before 24years ago. The building was the department store which is named Sam Pung. The department store was very luxury store and it was located in Gang Nam like down-town of Toronto. So, that was very popular and many people enjoyed shopping at there. But, like the 911 terror, the building suddenly collapsed and there were countless  people inside of the building. This made the casualties about 1,500 people. There was not like this accident that occurred a lot of casualties in Korea, accept for the Korean War.  Causes of the disaster was insolvent construction. The builder made the building use illegal ways because of money. For example, they skipped the steal material inside of concrete even though it must use inside of concrete for safety. Some people miraculously were rescued under the broken structure after ten days. Most of the people in Korea was shocked and this accident happed when I was young. The CEO of the department store went to the jail, and after this accident, the government of Korea made the strong structure laws. 

 

At beginning, the weather is peaceful and silent in the morning. And at about the noon, the weather became dark rapidly and the wind at a high speed. You could hear the sound of wind was loud enough. The stuff in the streets danced unconscious and the trees broke everywhere. The skyscrapers were shaking clearly and Some of their windows were blow off. The typhoon continued for almost 2 hours. According to the statistics, it cost about 5.2 billion for 2 hours.

Back to 1990 I still remember my first day at school, when my grandfather took me to the school by bicycle. during the first class all students and teachers had gotten surprised when a bunch of Iraqi armed soldiers had entered the classes and announced that Kuwait now is under Iraqi occupation. Then they had removed the kings pictures, and had replaced it by the Iraq leader picture then forced us to repeat the Iraqi national anthems. After one year the allies forced Iraq troops to retreat and withdrawn from Kuwait but before they left the country they had set in fire more than 650 crude oil wells that caused releasing of more than 1.5 billion barrel to the environment as a huge black cloud, it is considered as the largest oil spill in human history. That day the sky had been covered by this huge black cloud, we could not have been able to breath. Later it started to rain black drops that forced us to make a coal masks in order to absorb chemicals. until this day we still keep our shirts that stained by that polluted rain as a memory for the hard time we suffered that days.!

Following results on Pam Air App and statistics of environmental quality monitoring stations, the air quality decreased to low and very low level on 30th September. The amount of PM 2.5 fine dust was very large. When air quality went down, there were more hospitalized patients who had lungs affected by dust, pollen and smoke. 

This air condition can causes some diseases like lung cancer 

Vehicles, construction, climate conditions are some sources causing air pollution. We need to deal with population growth pressure, develop public transportation including buses and subway systems, and reduce emission from industrial factories. If we do not do that, the next generation will be our victim.