Top Ten Natural Disasters

1. Top Ten Natural Disasters By AJ SINGH

2. Click on the link to find out information about each disaster 1.Sumatra-Andaman 6.New Madrid earthquakes 2.Hurricane Katrina 7.Calcutta Cyclone 3.Nevada del Ruiz 8.Major Global Pale Climate Event 4.Tangshan 9.Santorin 5.Tambour 10.Cretaceous–Tertiary

3. Sumatra-Andaman On December 26th, 2004 a earthquake hit the island of Sumatra-Andaman about 275,000 lives were lost. Home

4. Hurricane Katrina • Hurricane Katrina, however, was a major international story. It struck the vulnerable US Gulf Coast in August 2005 and brings the still-rising death count to over 1,000. Home

5. Nevada del Ruiz • In 1985 a volcano known as Nevada del Ruiz ended the lives of 25,000 people, most of them caught in a massive mudflow that poured down the stricken mountain. Home

6. Tangshan • At 4:00 a.m. on July 28, 1976 the city of Tangshan, China ceased to exist. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake was generated by a fault that passed through the city and caused 85% of the buildings to collapse or to be so seriously damaged as to be unusable, and the death toll was enormous. Home

7. Tambour Tambour a volcano that happened in the year of 1815 in which 80,000 people died of subsequent famine. Home

8. New Madrid earthquakes • New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 in southern Missouri remain the largest (3) earthquakes ever to hit the contiguous U.S Home

9. Calcutta Cyclone • The event in 1737 known as Calcutta cyclone killed some 300,000 people Home

10. Santorin • Sounded by the bright blue Mediterranean Sea is the remnant of Struggle, an island that literally blew up somewhere around 1500 B.C.. Home

11. major global pale climate event • A major global pale climate event that happened around 3000B.C. Has appeard to have affected sea-level changes, vegetation and much surface chemistry. Home

12. Cretaceous–Tertiary • The cretaceous-tertiary happened 65 million years ago, and ended not only the dinosaurs life but thousands of other species lives. Home