Hiroshima, a city in the south of the main Island of Honshu, was the target in this first use. Most…
Shortly after the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy decided to carry out a series of atomic bomb…
This tsunami, with a wave height of one hundred feet, was triggered by an underwater earthquake of magnitude 8.1. On…
This tornado reached downtown Gainesville as a double-funnel storm that caused 203 deaths and $13 million worth of damage. Early…
Quetta is 5,500 feet above sea level and is located in a very mountainous area about fifty miles from the…
This magnitude 8.1 earthquake ruptured the earth for a distance of 1,200 miles and killed 12,000 people. The 1934 Bihar-Nepal…
This earthquake had a magnitude of 7.4 but the outstanding point about it is that this part of Canada’s offshore…
The offshore earthquake, though powerful, was barely felt on shore so no one was prepared for the tsunami that followed.…
There were no casualties from this quake but complicated faulting occurred along a stretch of forty miles. A major earthquake…
Stalin’s systematic slaughter by famine and control of movement of more than ten million people was the worst mass atrocity…