The town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was devastated by the nation’s worst flood. Poor maintenance had allowed a dam built high…
An area close to the California–Mexico border experienced an earthquake of magnitude 7.8. Damage was caused in San Diego County…
A hurricane of strength 3 struck South Carolina and Georgia in 1893 killing 1,500, making it the deadliest U.S. storm…
A hurricane of strength 4 struck the area southeast of present-day New Orleans. This hurricane left behind a trail of…
A series of tornadoes struck St. Louis and east St. Louis. Two of the tornadoes, both F4 in strength, impacted…
This disaster included a powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.5, followed by a massive tsunami. It struck the northeast coast of…
A bigger fire, compared with all the previous ones, broke out in the center of the city of Chicago. Inability…
The Asian Bubonic Plague, known as the Black Death, hits London. No one knows why the bubonic plague, or Black…
British administration failed to prepare for times of inadequate rainfall so, when crops failed in 1770, no food supplies were…
The earthquake in 1791 was Connecticut’s biggest earthquake up to that time. The earthquake hit east of New Haven and…