Mattoon was responsible for the deaths of 121 people in the town of the same name and the destruction of…
The unsinkable Titanic was suddenly sunk as it collided with an iceberg. Through a variety of failures, the Titanic was…
The eruption expelled a lake on its surface, throwing mud and pyroclastic flows from the heated water all over the…
Volcanic ash in volume greater than the sum of all other volcanic eruptions in Alaska was ejected and devastated every…
A storm surge of twelve feet inundated the business district of the city to a depth of six feet and…
This one had a magnitude of 7 but its activity was unrelated to the sub ducting plate. Earthquakes are common…
This hurricane was sixty miles wide and it reached Florida at 150 mph, causing a death toll between 325 and…
Pleasant Valley was thinly populated and the main impact of the quake was geological, creating a twenty-mile scarp at the…
Six million dollars of damage was caused in New Orleans and 350 people were killed. The Louisiana hurricane of September…
It was wartime. World War I was still being fought. The death toll was 116 and damage costs four million…