Since the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century, the different populations of the world have started experiencing numerous global disasters and catastrophes, which resulted in genocides where no nation was spared its share. It started with the Coronavirus pandemic and then its variant, a situation that everyone believed, even if for a moment of weakness, that it was the end. It was a bitter experience that those who witnessed it will never forget. If one wasn't affected, they certainly knew someone who was. The smell of medical masks, disinfectants, and sanitizers, the fear of hearing an ambulance siren or even the cough of the person sitting in front of you was enough to instill panic, coupled with the news of the surrounding hospitals reaching their full capacity. We embraced death, studies were abandoned, and businesses were left behind. The world stopped moving when humans felt the nearness of their end.

There is no difference between what the coronavirus pandemic did and what the earthquake did for the people of Turkey, Syria, and Morocco recently. On February 6, 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake left Turkey and Syria in a state that the whole world mourned. Mountains leveled with the ground, many lost their families in the rubble, children were under the debris, and elderly injured were in the streets. Hospitals were overcrowded and unable to accommodate all the patients, there was a shortage in the medical staff and medical supplies. Those who did not die due to the earthquake became victims of negligence, as the earthquake coincided with a strong snowstorm, which complicated rescue operations.

In what has been dubbed the "Year of Earthquakes", no earthquake of that magnitude occurred until last Friday, September 8, when a 7 Richter scale earthquake struck Morocco, resulting in a substantial number of deaths and injuries, a figure that continues to rise.

The reasons vary, but death is one. There is no protection from death, but if there is protection from some of its causes, then it is welcomed. In that case, efforts must be made to provide and achieve it. When doctors were unable to control the coronavirus outbreak, they ordered the following prevention methods. And because no geologist can now control the earthquakes to prevent them, work must be done to mitigate their effects. If the prevention from the pandemic is in sterilization, wearing medical masks, maintaining distance, and avoiding mixing, the methods of preventing an earthquake disaster are numerous; monitoring the condition of homes and assessing their ability to withstand a disaster or not, constantly equipping hospitals as if the disaster will arrive tomorrow, making solidarity between countries at the time of the disaster a rapid and inevitable matter, for the disaster is here today and only God knows where it will be tomorrow.

So, if the motto for preventing the coronavirus was "let's distance today so we can hug tomorrow", the motto for the earthquake disaster should be "let us unite today so we do not miss out tomorrow".