• Earthquakes Affect Everyone
    The Watchtower—1974 | February 1

    • EARTHQUAKES SINCE THE YEAR 1914

      One way to prove clearly that the generation since 1914 is unusual as far as earthquakes are concerned is to consider how many deaths they have caused.

      “During the past 1,000 years,” according to the 1971 Nature/​Science Annual, published by Time-Life Books, “more than three million people (possibly four million) have died from their effects.” But how many of these three (or, possibly, four) million persons have perished since the year 1914?

      Nine hundred thousand​—at least!

      In other words, up to 30 percent of all those killed in earthquakes over the last thousand-year period have died since 1914! The other 70 percent or so of the deaths were spread out over almost nine hundred and fifty years.