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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

This magnitude 7.8 quake was the largest natural disaster in the history of Argentina, which

This tornado had a width of a thousand feet as it touched down. It killed

This Northeast hurricane received the name the Great Atlantic because of its devastating work on

This tsunami, with a wave height of one hundred feet, was triggered by an underwater

This tornado reached downtown Gainesville as a double-funnel storm that caused 203 deaths and $13

Quetta is 5,500 feet above sea level and is located in a very mountainous area

This magnitude 8.1 earthquake ruptured the earth for a distance of 1,200 miles and killed