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79 BCE
Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius has experienced eight major eruptions in the last 17,000 years. The 79 AD eruption is one of the most well known ancient eruptions in the world, and may have killed more than 16,000 people. Ash, mud and rocks from this eruption buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pompeii is famous for the casts the hot ash formed around victims of the eruptions. -
Jan 3, 1556
Shaanxi Earthquake
It occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, during the Ming Dynasty. More than 97 countries in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected. An 840-kilometre (520 mi)-wide area was destroyed, and in some counties 60% of the population was killed -
Tambora
The eruption column lowered global temperatures, and some experts believe this led to global cooling and worldwide harvest failures, sometimes known as the Year Without a Summer in 1816.[2] The eruption resulted in a brief period of significant climate change that led to various cases of extreme weather. -
Great Glaveston Hurricane
The Great Galveston Hurricane was a Category 4 storm, with winds of up to 145 mph (233 km/h) per hour, which made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, in the United States, leaving about 8,000 dead. It was the deadliest hurricane in US history. -
Triol Avalanches
Tirol avalanches of 1916, series of massive avalanches in December 1916 that killed as many as 10,000 troops in the mountainous Tirol region, an area now occupying the northern part of Italy and the western part of Austria. -
Yellow River Floods (China)
The 1931 China floods or the 1931 Yellow River floods were a series of floods that occurred in the Republic of China. The floods are generally considered among one of the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded, and almost certainly the deadliest of the 20th century (when pandemics and famines are discounted).[2] Estimates of the total death toll range from 145,000 to between 3.7 million and 4 million. -
Tri- State Tornado
The Tri-State Tornado is currently the U.S. record holder for longest tornado track (219 miles), most deaths in a single tornado (695), and most injuries in a single tornado (2027). While it occurred before the modern record. It crossed the three states, thus it’s namesake “Tri-State,” tearing through thirteen counties of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. It crossed over and destroyed or significantly damaged nine towns and numerous smaller villages. -
Indian Ocean Tsunami
The rupture was more than 600 miles long, displacing the seafloor by 10 yards horizontally and several yards vertically. As a result, trillions of tons of rock moved, causing the largest magnitude earthquake in 40 years.The Indian Ocean tsunami traveled as far as 3,000 miles to Africa and still arrived with sufficient force to kill people and destroy property. The tsunami resulted in at least 227,898 fatalities. -
Hurricane Katrina
Katrina originated over the Bahamas on August 23 from the interaction between a tropical wave and the remnants of Tropical Depression Ten. Headed westward toward Florida and strengthened into a hurricane only two hours. Katrina emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on August 26. The storm strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, but weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on August 29 in southeast Louisiana. -
Hati Earthquake
a.At 4:53 pm on January 12, 2010, an earthquake registering a 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the country of Haiti, a few miles outside the capital of Port-Au-Prince. This devastating natural disaster killed over 200,000 and left over 600,000 injured or homeless, struggling to find the basic resources needed for survival.
