Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes, etc.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
Tied with Hurricane Harvey as the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. 1,173 1943 HMT Rohna [10] Military strike – bombing Mediterranean Sea: Luftwaffe glide bomb hit troopship causing the largest loss of U.S. soldiers (1,050) at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 1,167 1865 Sultana: Accident – shipwreck Marion, Arkansas
The largest and most destructive wildfire recorded in the modern history of San Diego County. [47] [50] 2001 Hurricane: 41 $5.5 billion Tropical Storm Allison: Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania: 1999 Hurricane: 85 $6.5 billion Hurricane Floyd: East Coast of the United States, Atlantic Canada: 1999 Heat wave: 271 Midwest and Northeast: 1999 Tornado: 48
Death count Event Location Year 930,000–2,000,000 1887 Yellow River flood: China: 1887 8,967,000–4,000,000 1931 China floods: China: 1931 400,000–893,303
Here is a look at some of the largest floods in Kentucky in the last century: 1927. ... according to a history of the flood by the Kentucky National Guard. “Thousands upon thousands of families ...
The flood remains Ohio's largest weather disaster. In the Midwestern United States, damage estimates exceeded a third of a billion dollars. Damage from the Great Dayton Flood at Dayton, Ohio, exceeded $73 million. Indiana's damages were estimated at $25 million (in 1913 dollars).
A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. These lists are lists of natural disasters: These lists are lists of natural disasters: List of avalanches