You can significantly decrease your chances of dying in a natural disaster by following a few common-sense processes. With more than six billion people on earth, your random chance of being one of the 100,000 dying in a natural disaster is less than 17 chances in one million.
Most natural disasters vary in terms of size versus frequency of occurrence.
In other words, larger events occur less frequently. Some disasters are random in time and some are not. Communication capabilities allow us to see spectacular natural phenomena now in ways that we could not before CNN and before lots of people had VCRs. We have a rapid increase in human population, which pushes people to build in riskier areas. Most of these disasters have a probability of occurrence that varies with geographic location on the Earth's surface.