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Natural Disasters

  • San Francisco Hurricane

    San Francisco Hurricane
    was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. Devastating fires broke out in the city that lasted for several days. As a result of the quake and fires, about 3,000 people died and over 80% of San Francisco was destroyed.
  • 26 April 1986 çChernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

     26 April 1986 çChernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
    The Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to have been the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale (t The battle to contain the contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles
  • Indian Ocean eathquake and tsunami

    Indian Ocean eathquake and tsunami
    It happened in the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake was caused when the Indian Plate was subducted by the Burma Plate and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (98 ft) high.
  • katrina Hurricane

    katrina Hurricane
    Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone 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. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,833 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; total property damage.
  • Fukushima nuclear accident

    Fukushima nuclear accident
    It comprises a series of incidents, such as explosions in the buildings that house nuclear reactors, failures in refrigeration systems, triple core meltdown and release of radiation to the exterior, recorded as a result of the damage caused by the earthquake in eastern Japan .
  • Haiyan Typhoon in The Philippines

    Haiyan Typhoon in The Philippines
    The people of Puilippines had 48 hours to go to safe places. But the police didn't warn because the goverment of there isn't good. There was many wounded and all the hospitals are full.
    Exacly there are 4.460 people die.