Worst Natural Disasters In History

When natural disasters strike, like tornadoes or hurricanes ALEX SMITH: Shortly after one of the worst of tornadoes in U.S. history, Joplin, Mo., resident Brandon McCoy described what he saw during the storm. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) BRANDON The final estimates for first-quarter U.S. GDP were, to put it mildly, terrible. A brutal winter walloped much of the East and Midwest, leaving millions to trudge through deep snowdrifts to get to work -- if they could even make it at all. With so many Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the worst disasters in the U.S. history making it one of the costliest natural disasters in the U.S. history. The May 12, 2008, Sichuan earthquake was a deadly earthquake that measured While it was the most deadly earthquake and the fifth deadliest natural disaster in history, there have been earthquakes with higher magnitudes. Aftershocks continued several times a month for half a year. An account written at the time says SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/AP) — One of the worst natural disasters in history struck 10 years ago today. The earthquake and resulting tsunami in the Indian Ocean the struck on December 26, 2004, killed 243,000 people. The tsunami was triggered by a magnitude-9 Already, it has ranked as the worst natural disaster in Brazil’s history and is quickly approaching the 1974 meningitis epidemic in Sao Paulo. (It's up for debate, I suppose, if a meningitis outbreak is classified as a natural disaster or not). .

You've seen the most horrifying industrial disasters. Now, here are some of the worst architectural calamities ever to crush entire buildings right down to their foundations. The five years old building has been collapsed on January 28, 1922 under the TORONTO – Canadians are are no strangers to natural disasters. As one of the largest and most geographically diverse countries in the world, we experience tornadoes, winter storms, floods, even hurricanes. Toronto has also experienced its own share of Obviously, we won't know the number of dead in Haiti but from what we know the number of dead is likely to be mind-boggling in what appears to be a disaster of epic dimensions. Even though it's too soon to know where Tuesday's Haiti earthquake ranks among .

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