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The Bhola cyclone is the deadliest tropical cyclone on record and also one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history. A comparable number of people died as a result of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake , 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake , but because of uncertainty in the number of deaths in all four disasters ...
Christmas flood of 1964. An aerial view of the flood, showing Willamette Falls and Oregon City. Date. 20 days December 18, 1964 (1964-12-18) – January 7, 1965 (1965-01-07) Location. California, Oregon, and Washington states. The Christmas flood of 1964 was a major flood in the United States' Pacific Northwest and some of Northern California ...
An F1 tornado then caused major damage and two injuries in Troy, Illinois. [7] The worst tornado of the outbreak then struck Pleasant Grove west of Tupelo, Arkansas at F3 strength, injuring 10. [8] The final major tornado of the outbreak was an F2 twister that then hit West City, Frisco, and Dahlgren, Illinois, injuring one. [9]
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The Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosiontook place in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, on October 31, 1963; 81 people died and about 400 others were injured. It was one of the worst disasters in the history of the state. On the night of October 31, over 4,000 people were in the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseumto watch a ...
Parts of wreckage still visible. Deadliest air disaster in U.S. at that time; led to creation of Federal Aviation Administration two years later. 125 1972 Buffalo Creek flood: Accident – dam failure Logan County, West Virginia: 123 1923 Dawson, New Mexico: Accident – coal mine Dawson, New Mexico: 123 1929 Cleveland Clinic fire of 1929: Fire ...
The Columbus Day storm of 1962 (also known as the big blow of 1962, [2] and originally in Canada as Typhoon Freda) was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962. Typhoon Freda was the twenty-eighth tropical depression, the twenty-third tropical ...
1960 Valdivia earthquake. The 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or the Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) on 22 May 1960 was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Most studies have placed it at 9.4–9.6 on the moment magnitude scale, [ 1 ] while some studies have placed the magnitude ...