TOP TEN INFAMOUS
NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE LAST 100 YEARS
TOP TEN INFAMOUS NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE LAST 100
YEARS
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TYPE
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PLACE
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DATE
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HOW
BIG
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CONSEQUENCES
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MORE
INFORMATION
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10
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Hurricane
Andrew
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Bahamas,
Florida, Louisiana
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Late
August 1992
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Category
4
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Not
very deadly but very expensive for the time. Over $40 billion.
|
Most
expensive tropical cyclone to hit the US to that point (until 2005)
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9
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Hurricane
Katrina
|
New
Orleans (USA)
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29th
August 2005
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$108
billion on property damage
|
Devastating.
Bad government handling. Most expensive hurricane ever in the US.
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8
|
Sichuan
earthquake
|
China
|
2008
|
Magnitude
8.
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Homelessness.
Loss of lives. $146 billion financial help to rebuild.
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Strong
aftershocks.
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7
|
Cyclone
Nargis
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Burma
|
2nd
May 2008
|
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$10
billion worth damage
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Casualties
were underestimated to reduce negative political consequences
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6
|
Earthquake
and tsunami
|
Japan
|
11th
March 2011
|
9
Richter scale
|
Epicenter
near the coast: tsunami. Meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. $235
billion damage.
|
Japan’s
strongest earthquake.
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5
|
Tangshan
earthquake
|
Densely
populated city in China
|
28th
July 1976
|
Huge
earthquake followed by a magnitude 7 aftershock.
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Death
toll ranges from 242,000 to 655,000.
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The
Chinese government rejected help and was criticized for ignoring early
warnings by seismologists.
|
|
4
|
Indian
Ocean earthquake and tsunami
|
14
countries, especially Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand
|
26th
December 2004
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Magnitude
9.3
100
feet high monster waves.
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Great
devastation that lasted years.
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|
|
3
|
Bhola
cyclone
|
Pakistan
|
12th
November 1970
|
115
mph winds
|
Most
people died due to flooding because of the violent storm that followed.
Entire
islands and villages destroyed.
|
Deadliest
cyclone in recorded history.
The
government was accused of mishandling the aftermath.
|
|
2
|
Haiti
earthquake
|
Haiti
|
12th
January 2010
|
7
Richter scale
|
Hundreds
of thousands of people died because of the country’s poor infrastructure.
1
million homeless people .
|
Immense
support from across the globe.
|
|
1
|
Central
China floods
|
Central
China
|
1931
|
Deadliest
natural disaster in modern history
|
Millions
of people died due to drowning, famine and disease. 51 million people were
affected.
|
The
Yellow River is considered the deadliest river in the world: over 1000 times
flooded in the last two millennia.
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