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A series of tornadoes was triggered by thunderstorms. Amite was the strongest of these and

The strongest earthquake in Oregon’s history hit the State from an offshore epicenter. Damage from

Mattoon was responsible for the deaths of 121 people in the town of the same

The eruption expelled a lake on its surface, throwing mud and pyroclastic flows from the

Volcanic ash in volume greater than the sum of all other volcanic eruptions in Alaska

A storm surge of twelve feet inundated the business district of the city to a

This one had a magnitude of 7 but its activity was unrelated to the sub

This hurricane was sixty miles wide and it reached Florida at 150 mph, causing a

Pleasant Valley was thinly populated and the main impact of the quake was geological, creating

Six million dollars of damage was caused in New Orleans and 350 people were killed.

It was wartime. World War I was still being fought. The death toll was 116

Considerable damage was done to homes but little loss of life, as far as is

Considerable damage was done to homes but little loss of life, as far as is

Earthquakes are frequent in Alaska but less frequent in magnitudes over 7. This 1901, magnitude

A vast area of two million square miles was damaged by this earthquake and the

A violent earthquake of magnitude 8.7 struck northeast India in 1897. Destruction was massive all

The eruption burst out of the side of the volcano rather than from the top.

This was the first devastating Californian earthquake to destroy a major city. Three thousand lost