The southern part of the Big Island sustained massive ground movements and some smaller tsunamis. A magnitude 7.2 earthquake, the…
Iceland stands on the mid-Atlantic volcanic ridge and is constantly experiencing eruptions. The 1973 one was one of the most…
Camille was one of only three hurricanes in the history of the United States to make landfall as a category…
A donation of seed grain from the United States to Iraq was wrongly consumed by Iraqis because of language difficulties,…
The city of Managua suffered extreme damage from the shaking and from fires. On the evening of December 22, 1972,…
Brisbane received twelve inches of rain within one twenty-four-hour period and, as a result, both the city and a large…
Eleven Israeli athletes were massacred in a terrorist attack. The beginnings of the modern phase of terrorism exploded into global…
Flooding from hurricanes is not the most common concern from these storms but in the case of Agnes it was…
A landslide within the Vaiont Dam in northern Italy displaced a massive volume of water from the dam that flooded…
The eruption forced all the islanders of Tristan da Cunha to evacuate from their homes in mid-Atlantic and remain away…