A category 2 hurricane struck the coastal and interior areas of Georgia and South Carolina. Damage was greatest in Georgia…
A monstrous typhoon struck Haiphong, Vietnam, killing 300,000. Haiphong, poorly prepared in 1881 for typhoons, was devastated. Haiphong, Vietnam, in…
London was well acquainted with fires but the Great Fire was by far the worst London ever experienced. About two…
Port Royal was a city on a sand spit in the harbor of Jamaica, Kingston. It was hit with an…
An offshore earthquake of magnitude 9, followed by a tsunami destroyed Lisbon, Portugal. The combination of the earthquake and the…
An earthquake, estimated at magnitude greater than 9, and accompanied with an equally powerful tsunami swept across the Pacific Northwest…
An earthquake of magnitude 8 occurred offshore from Gloucester and damaged coastal areas; it was the largest earthquake experienced in…
California’s most powerful earthquake ever struck Fort Tejon, a place near the San Andreas Fault. The quake’s epicenter was some…
An earthquake of magnitude 7.9, the biggest ever, hit the island of Hawaii. The earthquake caused enormous damage in Hawaii…
Cyclones from the Bay of Bengal in the northeast of India frequently cause extensive damage. This cyclone took 60,000 lives…