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…
The slump was triggered by an earthquake of magnitude 7.3, 150 miles south of the Island of Newfoundland, Canada, at…
Black Thursday received its name because it was on that day that the Stock Market began to crash. Investment in…
This region of Russia is well known as a source of powerful earthquakes and equally powerful tsunamis. In the case…
People fled in panic when the quake struck. They had never experienced anything of this strength before. There were no…
This deadly hurricane with its 150 mph winds and wall of water caused the deaths of 2,500 in Florida and…
This dam, part of the Los Angeles aqueduct system, was constructed on a fault. The dam failure caused the deaths…
Damage was extensive and fortunately casualties were few, thirteen in all, because people were still at home when the quake…