Natural

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,

Oklahoma’s worst ever tornado struck Woodward in 1947. This was a violent category 5 tornado,

The Nankai Trough was frequently hit in the past by powerful earthquakes. Along a three

This earthquake was not one of the subduction ones that are likely to hit this

Yellowstone National Park is the site of a super volcano in times past, as evidenced

The epicenter was close to the coast in Prince William Sound, halfway between Portage and

Aberfan, in south Wales, Britain, was a coal mining area. Coal waste was stored on

Hurricane Betsy was, for its time, the costliest and deadliest hurricane in U.S. history. Hurricane

A combination of high tide and severe wind storm raised the level of the North

Kamchatka, Russia, frequently experiences subduction earthquakes of the most powerful kind. This one had a

The largest Californian earthquake since 1906 struck Kern County in 1952. The epicenter was located

The quake’s epicenter was in China but almost all the damage and death toll occurred

This earthquake occurred on the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates at

The worst natural disaster before Hurricane Katrina struck Galveston in 1900. This hurricane flooded the

Wrong assumptions about the course this hurricane would take led to inadequate preparations for its

The Imperial Valley experienced an earthquake of magnitude 7.1. The population of the Valley was

The eruption continued in the village of Paricutin, about two hundred miles west of Mexico