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For China, 1976 was a year of political upheaval and power struggles. For Tangshan, an

Tropical storm Nina reached typhoon intensity on August 2 1975. It battered the central mountains

For the people of Darwin, Christmas 1974 brought neither peace nor merrymaking. Just after midnight

Fifi was designated a hurricane after it passed through Jamaica as a tropical storm and

There had been a four-year drought in Iran, which came to a spectacular end in

The most devastating tropical cyclone, ever, struck in November 1970 – the sixth cyclonic storm

The great Peruvian earthquake in May 1970 took place off the north coast of Peru.

In 1970 Romania suffered serious disruption when an unfortunate combination of circumstances combined to create

The Richter scale was developed to measure the magnitude of earthquakes and tops out at

In the early 1960s Skopje was the capital of Macedonia, then an integral part of

Northern Iran is a notorious earthquake zone and at the beginning of September 1962 duly

The city of Hamburg – Germany’s second largest – stands on the River Elbe at

The world’s most powerful earthquake – impressively titled Gran terremoto de Valdivia in Spanish –

The Japanese prosaically identify Pacific storms by number rather titan name unless they’re very special

Canada’s most notorious female visitor was a certain Hazel, but she was not human. Hurricane

At the end of January 1953, a high spring tide in the North Sea was

The world and almost everything in it was not nearly so well documented in the

The central to western region of Argentina behind the Andes is prone to seismic activity,