Natural

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,

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