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The table at right represents a 6-year period and only a select type of recorded weather events. The data was tabulated by running searches on the specified weather events recorded with at least 1 fatality. The yearly timeframes were selected to cover January 1 to December 31 of each year for each event type. The table does not provide a ...
[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [29]]. 95–4,000+ [30] [31] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
1972 Rapid City Flood: Rapid City, South Dakota: Average rainfall over area of 60 mi 2 measured at 10-15 inches (380 mm), over 6 hours in middle of night June 9–10, 1972. 1971 Earthquake: 65 $500 million Sylmar earthquake: Greater Los Angeles area: 1970 Tornado: 26 $1.412 billion (2008 USD) Lubbock Tornado: Lubbock, Texas
An F4 tornado damaged or destroyed about a third of Tuscumbia, Alabama, killing 12 people in town and at least 2 others in nearby rural areas. An F3 tornado damaged or destroyed about half the buildings in Montevallo, Alabama, killing two others. March 1875 Southeast tornado outbreak: March 19–20, 1875: Southeastern United States: ≥19
Rodriguez said at least two other people in San Bernardino's mountain communities had been found dead through official welfare checks since Feb. 23, when the historic snowstorms started.
New York City, Arlington County, Virginia, and Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania: $10,000,000,000 (2001) 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers. Deadliest disaster in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Deadliest act of terrorism in United States history. 2,982 (estimated) 2017 Hurricane Maria: Tropical cyclone
All ten people died when the house in which they were having dinner was destroyed; nine of them were children (Grazulis, p. 792) under the age of 15. An 11th person died from his injuries four months later. [34] Harpersville, Alabama: 1964 January 24: 10 6 F4 [35] (Grazulis, p. 1,049) Codell—Alton—Bloomington, Kansas: 1918 May 20: 10 F4
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.