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Heh, the only earthquake that ive ever experienced, i slept through ^^, but i could imagine that a really bad earthquake would be the worst.
Anyway, living in Australia, fire is almost an annual event for us. Last year i was holidaying in the Culbarra beach area, and was completely stranded there because the authorities had sealed off the only road leading there. A bushfire had breached both sides of the road, and was raging out the control. the air at Culbarra was so thick with smoke, that you could look up and see the Sun during the day, without hurting your eyes at all. At night, the moon was a deep deep red, almost like the color of blood.
Thankfully, a southerly change a few days on meant that the firefighters were able to contain the fire and re-open the road. The carnage that the fire had caused was incredible though. The whole area near the road where the fire had been the worst, looked like something from a wasteland of some sort. Trees were burnt to black crisps, without a single leaf in sight. Animal life was gone from the area, like it had never been. The stench, from charred flesh and bark was almost gut-wrenching.
But its all a cycle of life. All of the native plants here have seeds that have very hard exteriors, which can only be cracked by extreme heat (i.e. heat from fires...). Within a few years, if you showed someone that very same site, it would be impossible for them to say a fire had occured there.
Anyway, my advice?
always holiday somewhere that has at least two ways in and out!
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