The quake’s epicenter was in China but almost all the damage and death toll occurred in the valley of the…
This earthquake occurred on the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates at the Queen Charlotte Fault. Its…
The worst natural disaster before Hurricane Katrina struck Galveston in 1900. This hurricane flooded the island where Galveston was located,…
In violation of international agreements that Japan had signed Japanese soldiers assaulted China. Nanking, the capital of China at that…
Wrong assumptions about the course this hurricane would take led to inadequate preparations for its arrival in New England. Consequently,…
The Imperial Valley experienced an earthquake of magnitude 7.1. The population of the Valley was only 40,000 at the time,…
The eruption continued in the village of Paricutin, about two hundred miles west of Mexico City, and its cone reached…
This magnitude 7.8 quake was the largest natural disaster in the history of Argentina, which caused the death of 10…
This tornado had a width of a thousand feet as it touched down. It killed 153, seriously injured eight hundred…
This Northeast hurricane received the name the Great Atlantic because of its devastating work on coast and sea all the…