Earthquakes are frequent in Alaska but less frequent in magnitudes over 7. This 1901, magnitude 7.1, earthquake was related to…
A thousand of the workers were killed and thousands more were injured when the Czar’s soldiers opened fire on the…
A vast area of two million square miles was damaged by this earthquake and the shaking was felt over a…
The theater that was claimed to be fireproof went up in flames shortly after its first opening. Of the 1,900 people…
A violent earthquake of magnitude 8.7 struck northeast India in 1897. Destruction was massive all over northeast India and 6,000…
The eruption burst out of the side of the volcano rather than from the top. As a result the cloud…
This was the first devastating Californian earthquake to destroy a major city. Three thousand lost their lives because of it.…
This tornado claimed 114 lives, injured 230 others, and caused damage equal to $50,000 in 1902 dollars. The Goliad Tornado…
Excessive amounts of coal were removed from the mountain without adequate protection from overlying layers of rock. As a result,…
Santa Maria’s first eruption in five hundred years exploded into action with a VEI of 6, the same size as…