Gainesville Tornado – April 6, 1936

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This tornado reached downtown Gainesville as a double-funnel storm that caused 203 deaths and $13 million worth of damage. Early…

Quetta Earthquake – May 31, 1935

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Quetta is 5,500 feet above sea level and is located in a very mountainous area about fifty miles from the…

Bihar Earthquake – India – January 15, 1934

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This magnitude 8.1 earthquake ruptured the earth for a distance of 1,200 miles and killed 12,000 people. The 1934 Bihar-Nepal…

Baffin Bay Earthquake – Canada – November 20, 1933

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This earthquake had a magnitude of 7.4 but the outstanding point about it is that this part of Canada’s offshore…

Sanriku Earthquake – Japan – March 2, 1933

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The offshore earthquake, though powerful, was barely felt on shore so no one was prepared for the tsunami that followed.…

Nevada Earthquake – December 21, 1932

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There were no casualties from this quake but complicated faulting occurred along a stretch of forty miles. A major earthquake…

Ukraine Catastrophe – November 1932

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Stalin’s systematic slaughter by famine and control of movement of more than ten million people was the worst mass atrocity…

Grand Banks Earthquake – Nova Scotia – November 18, 1929

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The slump was triggered by an earthquake of magnitude 7.3, 150 miles south of the Island of Newfoundland, Canada, at…

Stock Market Collapse – October 24, 1929

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Black Thursday received its name because it was on that day that the Stock Market began to crash. Investment in…

Kamchatka Earthquake – Russia – February 3, 1923

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This region of Russia is well known as a source of powerful earthquakes and equally powerful tsunamis. In the case…