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The Nobi Region north of Nagoya, Japan, was hit with an earthquake of magnitude 8.

A tornado of strength 4 struck Louisville, Kentucky, killing seventy-six. The tornado’s path was wider

The town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was devastated by the nation’s worst flood. Poor maintenance had

An area close to the California–Mexico border experienced an earthquake of magnitude 7.8. Damage was

A hurricane of strength 3 struck South Carolina and Georgia in 1893 killing 1,500, making

A hurricane of strength 4 struck the area southeast of present-day New Orleans. This hurricane

A series of tornadoes struck St. Louis and east St. Louis. Two of the tornadoes,

This disaster included a powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.5, followed by a massive tsunami. It

The earthquake in 1791 was Connecticut’s biggest earthquake up to that time. The earthquake hit

The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 were the most powerful to hit contiguous

The earth’s biggest eruption within historic times hit Indonesia in 1815. This eruption had a

Natchez was almost totally destroyed by a mile-wide tornado and 317 lives were lost. Shortly

A fast-moving category 4 tornado swept through downtown Marshfield, Missouri. Most of its buildings were

A category 2 hurricane struck the coastal and interior areas of Georgia and South Carolina.

A monstrous typhoon struck Haiphong, Vietnam, killing 300,000. Haiphong, poorly prepared in 1881 for typhoons,

Port Royal was a city on a sand spit in the harbor of Jamaica, Kingston.

An offshore earthquake of magnitude 9, followed by a tsunami destroyed Lisbon, Portugal. The combination

An earthquake, estimated at magnitude greater than 9, and accompanied with an equally powerful tsunami