Fifi was designated a hurricane after it passed through Jamaica as a tropical storm and then reached maximum intensity when…
There had been a four-year drought in Iran, which came to a spectacular end in February 1972 not with long-awaited…
The most devastating tropical cyclone, ever, struck in November 1970 - the sixth cyclonic storm in that year’s North Indian…
The great Peruvian earthquake in May 1970 took place off the north coast of Peru. It measured an impressive 7.9…
In 1970 Romania suffered serious disruption when an unfortunate combination of circumstances combined to create a great flood in late…
The Richter scale was developed to measure the magnitude of earthquakes and tops out at 10 - this being an…
In the early 1960s Skopje was the capital of Macedonia, then an integral part of the Socialist Federal Republic of…
Northern Iran is a notorious earthquake zone and at the beginning of September 1962 duly experienced a massive quake measuring…
The city of Hamburg - Germany’s second largest - stands on the River Elbe at the base of the Jutland…
The world’s most powerful earthquake - impressively titled Gran terremoto de Valdivia in Spanish - rocked Chile in May 1960.…