A United Airlines DC8 and a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation collided over New York and bodies and debris fell…
This earthquake of magnitude 9.5 hit an area of Chile close to Concepcion, two hundred miles south of the country’s…
Nagoya is a city of a million people and this extreme storm caused the deaths of 5,000 people plus the…
This was the largest earthquake in Alaska since the quake in Yakutat, near Lituya Bay, in 1899. At the head…
Thalidomide was launched by Celgene Corporation to help pregnant women. Before it was withdrawn three years later thousands of babies…
The area hit, Fallon-Stillwater, is about one hundred miles southeast of Reno, largely deserted in 1954 so there were no…
The Flint tornado was the last in U.S. history to cause the deaths of more than one hundred persons. Better…
The high death toll, 114, and the other high costs were partly due to the rarity of powerful tornadoes in…
An eighty-mile coastal strip from Seattle to Chehalis was severely damaged. On April 13, 1949, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake occurred…
Lack of awareness of the dangers from ammonium nitrate despite published guidelines and earlier similar historical tragedies caused the tragedies…