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    This document lists details of various natural disasters around the world from 2004 to the present including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and their impacts. The deadliest events were the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Southeast Asia which killed over 300,000 people, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan which resulted in 16,000 deaths, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake that took 230,000 lives. Smaller events like eruptions of Mt. Etna in Italy and Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland caused no deaths.

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    This document lists details of various natural disasters around the world from 2004 to the present including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and their impacts. The deadliest events were the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Southeast Asia which killed over 300,000 people, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan which resulted in 16,000 deaths, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake that took 230,000 lives. Smaller events like eruptions of Mt. Etna in Italy and Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland caused no deaths.

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    Unit 4 Flash Cards

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    This document lists details of various natural disasters around the world from 2004 to the present including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and their impacts. The deadliest events were the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Southeast Asia which killed over 300,000 people, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan which resulted in 16,000 deaths, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake that took 230,000 lives. Smaller events like eruptions of Mt. Etna in Italy and Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland caused no deaths.

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    Boxing Day Tsunami, 2004

    26th December, 2004 Magnitude 9 Off the coast of Sumatra Death Toll= 300,000+

    Fukoshima
    11th March 2011 Magnitude 8.9 Tohku Death Toll= 16,000

    Hokkaido
    26th September, 2003 Magnitude 8.3 Island of Hokkaido Death Toll= 1

    Kobe
    17th January, 1995 Magnitude 7.2 Kobe, Japan Death Toll= 5,000

    Haiti
    12th January, 2010 Magnitude 7 Caribbean Death Toll= 230,000

    UK
    27th February, 2008 Magnitude 5.3 Lincolnshire Death Toll= 0

    Mt Etna
    2001-2003 (Various Eruptions). VEI up to 3 Sicily, Italy Death Toll= 0

    Yellowstone- Super Volcano


    Future VEI- Unknown, but massive Wyoming, USA Death Toll= Unknown

    Eyjafjallajkull
    April-May, 2010 VEI 2 Iceland Death Toll= 0

    Mount Pinatubo
    15th June, 1991 VEI 6 Philippines- Luzon Island Death Toll= 800

    Monsterrat
    18th July, 1997 VEI up to 3 Caribbean Death Toll= 19

    Mt. St Helens
    18th May, 1980 VEI 5 Washington Death Toll= 57

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