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Natural Disasters

By am20reyes

  • San Francisco Earthquake

    San Francisco Earthquake
    • Killed about 3,000 through 6,000 people.
    • As damaging as the earthquake and its aftershocks were, the fires that burned out of control afterward were even more destructive.[23] It has been estimated that up to 90% of the total destruction was the result of the subsequent fires
    • The overall cost of the damage from the earthquake was equivalent to $10,500,000,000 in 2015.

  • Mississippi Flood

    Mississippi Flood
    • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States,[1] with 27,000 square miles inundated up to a depth of 30 feet.
    - Ninety-four percent of the more than 630,000 people affected by the flood lived in the states of Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, most in the Mississippi Delta. More than 200,000 African Americans were displaced from their homes along the Lower Mississippi River and had to live for lengthy periods in relief camps.

  • Blizzard

    Blizzard
    • Areas as far south as central Alabama and Georgia received 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 cm) of snow. Areas such as Birmingham, Alabama received up to 12 inches (30 cm) with isolated reports of 16 inches (41 cm).
    • An estimated 40 percent of the country's population experienced the effects of the storm[4] with a total of 318 fatalities,[5] making it one of the most deadly weather events of the 20th century.
    • Record cold temperatures were seen across portions of the south and east of the US in the

  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina
    • Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
    • It was a category 5 Hurricane and The total number of of fatalities were 1.833.
    • Total property damage was estimated at $108 billion (2005 USD),[1] roughly four times the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992

  • Wild Fire

    Wild Fire
    • During 2011 in Texas, around 31,453 fires had burned 4,000,000 acres or 16,190 square kilometres.
    • Two firefighters were killed. Eastland volunteer firefighter Gregory M. Simmons, 51, died April 15 while battling a 3,000-acre (12 km2) blaze Friday afternoon near Eastland. -caused $510.927 million in damages and caused six fatalities.