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…
In the dying days of World War II inferior materials, because of war shortages, were used to repair a gas…
Hiroshima, a city in the south of the main Island of Honshu, was the target in this first use. Most…
Shortly after the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy decided to carry out a series of atomic bomb…
This tsunami, with a wave height of one hundred feet, was triggered by an underwater earthquake of magnitude 8.1. On…
This tornado reached downtown Gainesville as a double-funnel storm that caused 203 deaths and $13 million worth of damage. Early…
Quetta is 5,500 feet above sea level and is located in a very mountainous area about fifty miles from the…