2006 - Now

Armageddon Benchmarks / Statistics.

History Channel - Crash: Next Great Depression?

 
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While the price of oil and ....

Portent of things to come.

Charts to hand out

Oil

History of the oil industry

The Prize - Episode 1

6 more episodes on Google Video. Total of 7

Price of Food

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/world/2008/costoffood/default.stm

News article - April 2008

US Dollar

Notable Events - Recent Calamities

Myanmar Cyclone

China Earthquake

Gold

Gold price chart by BullionVault.com - Click for live prices

January 1989 - January 2009

CRYsis of CONfidence

Earthquakes

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/quake1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Ancash_earthquake - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Spitak_earthquake - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Bam_earthquake

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35821484/ns/world_news-chile_earthquake/ - flash animation of all earthquakes in Santiago region

Earthquake Facts and Statistics (USGS)

2010 7.0-7.9 quakes- 21 if present pace continues

while # per year may not increase much -- deaths / year has spiked

7.0+ quakesin 2010 http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2010/2010_stats.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes#Largest_earthquakes_by_magnitude - since 1575
Chile - tied for 7th!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_america#Human_geography Guatemala largest at 14 million

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Caribbean_island_countries_by_population

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/graphs.php - nice

*Assuming even average distribution over the entire year.
Worldwide Earthquake Statistics (USGS)