This international waterway annually faces the risk of flooding because of the several variables that affect water levels in both countries. The Red River Flood of 1997, affecting both the United States and Canada, was a major flood that occurred in May 1997 in North Dakota, Minnesota, and southern Manitoba. It was the most severe …
The flooding from hurricanes can be extremely destructive as became clear in the $6 billion amount of damages caused by this one. Hurricane Floyd came ashore and made landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina, at 2 A.M. on September 16 with wind speeds of 104 mph. The greatest damages it inflicted were along the eastern …
Earthquakes are frequent in this part of South America where the Nazca Tectonic Plate is always moving beneath the South American Plate. In the afternoon of June 23, 2001, a magnitude 8.4 earthquake struck the offshore area of Peru immediately west of the city of Arequipa. Its epicenter was a little over one hundred miles …
The two planes that hit the World Trade Center were accompanied by two other planes that sought to destroy two major centers in Washington, D.C. A second and much more deadly terrorist attack than the attack on New York City in 1993 occurred on the World Trade Center (WTC) on September 11, 2001, combined as …
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As anthrax powder arrived at different places on the United States East Coast, via regular mail, the entire postal system was closed down for a time. The events of nine eleven were a terrible shock to all in the United States, yet from many points of view that should not have been the case. The …
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The whole world was shaken by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Indonesia. Around 8 A.M. on December 26, 2004, an earthquake of magnitude 9.1 hit northern Sumatra in Indonesia, and then shook most of the world by causing the deadliest tsunami in human history. The earthquake was so powerful that it slowed down …
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