Natural Disasters In The Internet Era

Reprinted with permission from FindLaw.com

Natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes and tsunamis, have occurred on this planet for many millennia. And such phenomena have become disasters where humans have populated in heavy concentrations in areas subject to such phenomena.

In the internet era, so much of life has seemed to move online. People spend many of their waking hours in front of their computer screens or staring into their smart phones, that they can actually forget the real world around them. Of course, the real world can talk back and quite loudly. There is nothing like the rumble of an earthquake to provide a reminder that not everything in the real world is stable and safe.