Natural

Since no known faults had been identified in this area, no one expected this earthquake.

Armenia at the time was part of the USSR and at war with a neighboring

Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz erupted and mudflows swept down from a height of 17,500 feet.

This was one of the most destructive and deadly in Mexico’s history. On September 19,

The southern part of the Big Island sustained massive ground movements and some smaller tsunamis.

Iceland stands on the mid-Atlantic volcanic ridge and is constantly experiencing eruptions. The 1973 one

Camille was one of only three hurricanes in the history of the United States to

The city of Managua suffered extreme damage from the shaking and from fires. On the

Brisbane received twelve inches of rain within one twenty-four-hour period and, as a result, both

Flooding from hurricanes is not the most common concern from these storms but in the

The eruption forced all the islanders of Tristan da Cunha to evacuate from their homes

This earthquake of magnitude 9.5 hit an area of Chile close to Concepcion, two hundred

Nagoya is a city of a million people and this extreme storm caused the deaths

This was the largest earthquake in Alaska since the quake in Yakutat, near Lituya Bay,

The area hit, Fallon-Stillwater, is about one hundred miles southeast of Reno, largely deserted in

The Flint tornado was the last in U.S. history to cause the deaths of more

The high death toll, 114, and the other high costs were partly due to the

An eighty-mile coastal strip from Seattle to Chehalis was severely damaged. On April 13, 1949,