Nevados Huascaran Avalanche – 1970

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The great Peruvian earthquake in May 1970 took place off the north coast of Peru. It measured an impressive 7.9…

Romanian Floods – 1970

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In 1970 Romania suffered serious disruption when an unfortunate combination of circumstances combined to create a great flood in late…

Great Alaska Earthquake – 1964

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The Richter scale was developed to measure the magnitude of earthquakes and tops out at 10 - this being an…

Skopje Earthquake – 1963

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In the early 1960s Skopje was the capital of Macedonia, then an integral part of the Socialist Federal Republic of…

Bou’in-zahra Earthquake – 1962

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Northern Iran is a notorious earthquake zone and at the beginning of September 1962 duly experienced a massive quake measuring…

North Sea Flood – 1962

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The city of Hamburg - Germany’s second largest - stands on the River Elbe at the base of the Jutland…

Valdivia Earthquake – 1960

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The world’s most powerful earthquake - impressively titled Gran terremoto de Valdivia in Spanish - rocked Chile in May 1960.…

Typhoon Vera – 1959

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The Japanese prosaically identify Pacific storms by number rather titan name unless they’re very special - and the typhoon that…

Hurricane Hazel – 1954

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Canada's most notorious female visitor was a certain Hazel, but she was not human. Hurricane Hazel was the largest Atlantic…

North Sea Storm Tide – 1953

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At the end of January 1953, a high spring tide in the North Sea was whipped up by a severe…