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Great Galveston Hurricane
The coast of Texas
United States and caused between 8000 and 12000 deaths. The storm reached the Texas coast south of Galveston on September 8 as a Category 4 hurricane with a storm surge of 8 to 15 feet. -
The Tri-state Tornado
Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana
killed 695 people and injured 2,027, traveling more than 300 miles through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on March 18, 1925. It was rated an F5 at the top of the old Fujita scale (with winds of 260-plus mph). -
Deadliest Flood
July-August 1931
Yangtze River in China
The worst period of flooding was from July to August 1931.[4] In July alone, four weather stations along the Yangtze River reported rain totaling over 600 mm (24 in) for the month.[2] Chinese sources usually indicate the death toll of the Yangtze River overflow at about 145,000, with flood damage affecting around 28.5 million,[1] while most Western sources give a far higher death toll of between 3.7 and 4 million people.[2][3][4] -
Table Mountain Fire (2000)
16 January to 20 January 2000
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Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans, Louisiana
Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. -
Thai monsoons
monsoon season
Thailand
Monsoons that raged throughout Thailand from September to December 1983 resulted in the deaths of 10,000 people. Up to 100,000 contracted water-borne diseases and 15,000 were evacuated. More than $400 million worth of damage was caused. -
2010 Haiti earthquake
Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
The 2010 Haiti earthquake (French: Séisme de 2010 à Haïti; Haitian Creole: Tranblemanntè 12 janvye 2010 nan peyi Ayiti) was acatastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne (Ouest), approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.[7][8] -
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
March 11, 2016
Tōhoku
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震 Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin?) was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan. Great East Japan earthquake (東日本大震災 Higashi nihon daishinsai) and also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake,[26] and the 3.11 earthquake. -
Canada Wildfire
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Air pollution in the Alberta city is still at dangerously high levels.A regional official told the BBC that 8,000 people were given precautionary evacuation orders late on Monday, in addition to some 4,000 who had already been advised to leave. -
Alicante wildfire
September 5, 2016
Benidorm in Spain
People left their homes and hotels for shelter as the flames burned through the province of Alicante on Sunday night and into Monday morning.
Planes flew overhead dropping water as witnesses described the situation as like a "warzone".
