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Bhola cyclone. Shaanxi earthquake. Yellow River flood. Yangtze River floods. Additional resources. Bibliography. Every year, some of the deadliest natural disasters — earthquakes, volcanic ...
The Top 5 Deadliest Tornado Years in U.S. History. Countdowns. By Live Science Staff. published 16 June 2011. ... On Sept. 29, another powerful tornado killed 79 people in St. Louis, Mo.
Tornadoes. Tornadoes are the most powerful, unpredictable and destructive weather systems on Earth. The National Weather Service (NWS) defines a Tornado as a violently rotating column of air in ...
Editor's note: This story's headline was updated to indicate the storm was the most powerful in 21 years, after a prior verison said 20 years. Harry Baker Social Links Navigation
In the predawn hours of Feb. 6, 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck south-central Turkey near the town of Gaziantep. It was the strongest quake to hit Turkey since 1939, and the damage was ...
15. Atacama, Chile; 1922; magnitude 8.5. A black and white photograph showing the damage caused by the Vallenar earthquake in 1922. (Image credit: By Gustavo Bruzzone Rocco - Unknown source ...
In October 1961, the Soviet Union dropped the most powerful nuclear bomb in history over a remote island north of the Arctic Circle. Though the bomb detonated nearly 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above ...
This powerful hurricane began developing over the southwestern Caribbean Sea on 22 October. It drifted westward and became a tropical storm later that day, then turned northward and became a ...
"This is the fastest turnaround time for two major hurricane landfalls in Florida history." In recent decades, ... to include even more powerful Category 6 storms. ...
Mount Tambora. This detailed astronaut photograph depicts the summit caldera of the Tambora volcano. The volcano last erupted almost 200 years ago. In 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia exploded ...