The weather in November has turned to cold, and something unexpected happened this month, that was a volcanic eruption in Colombia, and the death toll was the largest natural disaster in recent years.

This was the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano located in Colombia, and it was two consecutive eruptions, causing a large number of magma and stones to engulf several towns around the volcano. It is conceivable that the death toll is so many.

It has to be said here that the population density of Colombia is far less than that of many countries. If such large-scale volcanoes occur in large-scale island countries, the number of deaths caused will probably increase many times.

The volcano ushered in its first eruption on the afternoon of the 13th and erupted again in the evening. Among them, the most severely affected town is the town of Amero. After the volcano eruption, the small town was buried with magma, stones and volcanic ash as a whole, resulting in an estimated death of 80% of the residents, and the death toll can be said to account for the majority.

Due to the accumulated snow melting around the volcano all year round, the water levels of several nearby rivers have soared, threatening the safety of lives and property of tens of thousands of people in the river basin below. The disaster area has reached 30,000 square kilometers and 130,000 victims. As for material losses, it is even more difficult to estimate.

It can be said that this volcanic eruption alone has caused countless economic crises in Colombia, and the country's economy will be regressed for many years. At least it is much more harmful than the so-called 9/11 US.

After receiving the news of the volcanic eruption, Colombian President Betankur immediately held an emergency meeting to analyze the disaster situation and take disaster relief measures to define the 180-kilometer area around the volcano as a disaster area.

After the volcano erupted, a large number of Colombian soldiers, Red Cross members and volunteers gathered in the disaster area to rescue and evacuate the victims. Thousands of citizens and many officials and private organizations donated cash, tents, food, medicines and household appliances to the disaster area.

The capital Bogotá alone was collected in 14 or 15 days. More than 1,000 tons of disaster relief supplies and about 30,000 US dollars were collected. Among them, the site of the Bogotá Expo has now become a concentration of donated disaster relief supplies.

At this time, people spontaneously formed cohesion, in which residents from all over Colombia drove cars, rode motorcycles or bicycles and even hiked items there. Many people, including children, took off their clothes on the spot to help the victims.

After the disaster, countries around the world, especially Latin American countries, immediately mobilized to assist Colombia. A large number of ambulance workers and disaster relief supplies from various countries are continuously transporting to the disaster area.

In addition to these Colombian residents, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution calling on all member states to generously provide emergency assistance to Colombia to help Colombia rebuild its homes. The funds alone supported nearly 30 million US dollars, but the funds provided by the Pan American Development Bank accounted for the majority of these funds, which made people sigh at how generous other UN members were.

It has to be said that the International Red Cross provides 1 million Finnish marks to relieve victims of the Colombian volcanic eruption, based on the exchange rate between the mark and the US dollar in 1985. This money is less than 20,000 US dollars.

In addition to these funds and various materials, the US government decided to send 12 helicopters to the disaster area to assist the Colombian government in searching, rescuing and evacuating victims shortly after the disaster.

In fact, this disaster could have been prevented, at least to reduce most of the losses. Because there were obvious signs of this volcanic eruption, the Ruiz volcano, which had accumulated snow all year round, had begun to spray fine mud and sand, and the mud and sand particles were gradually increasing. At night, the snow melted rapidly, causing huge waves of mud and sand to pour down.

At that time, someone called the village near the volcano to report the situation, but what they got was half-believing and half-doubted. Among them, Mayor Rodriguez and pastor Osorio kept advising residents to rest assured. They believed that the situation was similar to that which occurred in August 1985 and there should be little problem.

Not only that, the pastor led everyone to perform a mass at 5 pm that day, and said in public that he would be safe and sound, which also made most of the half-believing and half-doubted people believe it.

It was not until 11 o'clock in the evening that the mayor hurriedly delivered a radio speech, asking residents to evacuate quickly, but unfortunately it was obviously too late at that time. After the evacuation order was issued for twenty minutes, the huge stream of mud and sand was the first to destroy the substation, causing the whole city to be dark. Then he quickly entered the town of Amero, located in the canyon, and the mayor himself was not spared.

Without any preparation, the casualties caused can be imagined. It can be said that this volcanic eruption was the biggest natural disaster in Colombian history.

Although the intensity of this volcanic eruption was relatively small, the mudslide flow followed by the melted ice and snow volcanic ash and gases. When the mudslide rolled down, soil and rocks were continuously added, greatly increasing its volume and density, causing the 39-meter-deep terrifying mudslide to sweep across the inhabited valleys at an extremely fast speed, destroying everything they passed along, and causing road damage.

This volcanic eruption is enough to be among the top ten catastrophic eruptions in history. Compared with the number of deaths, it can be among the top five. At the same time, this is also the most serious disaster for mankind in recent years, much greater than the two aircraft damage incidents in 1984.

However, due to the fact that Colombia is a country with a small and light word, the volcanic eruption has undoubtedly shrunk a lot in reports from other countries. After all, this is Colombia, not the so-called United States, island countries and other developed countries.

After this volcanic eruption, the secretary of the Lyrida Church, Dias, who had personally experienced this disaster, made a report on it even more painfully: "If you treat nature, you cannot rely on experience and imagination, you should adopt a scientific attitude!"

In his opinion, if the senior management had not taken any measures, the losses would not have been so great. The deaths of so many people directly caused the country of Colombia to be damaged.

Zhao Chen obviously hadn't seen the report of this disaster in his previous life, so it can be said that it was unexpected. Although he had the experience and never remembered in his previous life, not all international events were clear. After all, Zhao Chen in his previous life was not born in this era, let alone this was a major event in other countries.

As for the two aviation incidents in 1984, it was entirely because of the so-called Malaysia Airlines incident that Zhao Chen searched the historical aviation incident at that time, which could be said to be a accidental collision.

However, although this incident was unexpected to him, Zhao Chen still realized that for him, who had already exceeded 10 billion US dollars, money was a symbol of status, and his property could be opened for banking.

Among them, the animation that brought him the most was not "Dragon Ball", which created a single-line miracle, but "Pokemon", "Gundam", "Oh-Gi-Gi-Oh" and "Transformers". The single-line and ratings are just secondary profits, but the real profits are their peripheral products. You should know that even if the output value of these four animes in history is less than 10 billion US dollars, the difference is not big. Even if they are still in their 'younger' now!

In addition to the output value of animation, Zhao Chenke still has many other investments. Among them, the one with the best returns is undoubtedly Microsoft and Apple, which entered a period of rapid development. Among these two companies, he controls a lot of stocks. In just two years, these stocks have increased at least dozens of times. It can be said that they make money by standing on the shoulders of giants in history.

As for Zhao Chen's current property, the probability of being the first in Forbes Rich List may not be high, but at least it can enter the top ten. After all, it is still in 1985! Judging from his asset growth rate, it may take less than two or three years to stand at the top, and it is likely that he will always stand at this position for continuous successive success, mainly due to the rapid growth rate of his industry.

It is precisely because of this or that, Zhao Chen has long paid less attention to money and has reached the level of indifference. Even if he spends so much money, he cannot use it at all. Instead, he will gather more and more like a snowball.

Therefore, when he heard that Colombia was seriously affected to such a degree, Zhao Chen extended a helping hand again and donated 100 million US dollars to the affected areas of Colombia in his personal name. In order to prevent the funds from being exploited by other organizations for no reason, he was afraid that the "drought price has risen several times or even dozens of times" similar to the Red Cross, so the organization that operated this money was also a foundation he established himself. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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