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The Tri-State Tornado
The "Tri-State Tornado" 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) -
Central China Floods
The worst natural disaster in history, the Central China Floods occurred from July to August 1931, when the Yangtze River overflowed and caused a series of floods. As a result of the massive flooding, an estimated 3.7 million people died from drowning, disease and starvation -
Flint Tornado
The "Flint Tornado" killed 115 people and injured 844 in Flint, Michigan. The tornado was the deadliest twister ever recorded in the state. -
Chile The Largest Earth Quake Ever
Largest Earth Quake Ever
Approximately 1,655 killed, 3,000 injured, 2,000,000 homeless, and $550 million damage in southern Chile -
Hurricane Camille
At the time of its landfall on the night of Aug. 17-18, 1969, Camille had a pressure of 900 millibarsCamille's landfall is blamed for 143 deaths, and another 113 people perished in Virginia from flash flooding resulting from Camille's remnants. -
Bhola Cyclone
The deadliest cyclone ever recorded, the Bhola cyclone struck East Pakistan (what is now Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on Nov. 12, 1970, flooding much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta. Approximately 500,000 people died, primarily because of the floods that resulted from the cyclone's storm surge -
Tangshan Earthquake
On July 28, 1976, the epicenter of the Tangshan Earthquake struck near Tangshan, an industrial city with approximately one million inhabitants located in Hebei, People's Republic of China. Tangshan's dense population was devastated by the magnitude-8 earthquake. The -
Hurricane Andrew
Andrew was a small hurricane, but it packed extreme winds, estimated to be Category 5 strength at landfall along the southeast Florida coast. The pressure at landfall was 922 millibars. The intense winds caused catastrophic damage in southern Florida, destroying or damaging about 125,000 homes. -
Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
On Dec. 26, 2004, an undersea, magnitude-9.3 earthquake, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, resulted in a devastating tsunami that hit the coasts of several countries in South and Southeast Asia. The Indian Ocean earthquake and its resulting tsunami killed an estimated 225,000 to 230,210 people. -
Hurcan Katrina
When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale–it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched some 400 miles across. The storm itself did a great deal of damage, but its aftermath was catastrophic, because there was massive floodin
Katrina caused more than $100 billion in damage.
