The earthquake in west-central Peru triggered a massive avalanche that swept downhill from a height of 18,000 feet. On the…
Cyclones that strike land from the Bay of Bengal, India, have always caused high death tolls. This cyclone was the…
The epicenter was one hundred miles northeast of the city and the earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.5, was powerful…
Information about this earthquake was slow in coming because the Chinese authorities did not want to create widespread fear. The…
The volume of this oil spill was more than six times greater than the Exxon Valdez spill. Lack of clear…
Major health problems arose from a new subdivision on an old industrial site No adequate examination of an old waste…
Failure of water pumps caused a chain reaction of higher and higher temperatures and some radioactive gas began to escape…
This was the most recent in the long history of volcanic eruptions in the Cascades. It had a VEI of…
The Ocean Ranger was stationed at sea 170 miles east of Newfoundland. Because of inadequate preparations for windstorms 84 lives…
Since no known faults had been identified in this area, no one expected this earthquake. On May 2, 1983, an…