Event

Date

Location

Bhola
11/3/1970 East Pakistan
Cyclone
11/13/1970 (Now
(Hurricane 1)
Bangladesh);
West Bengal,
India

Measurement Death Toll

Records?

Two Facts

130 mph
highest
recorded
wind speed

Deadliest
Hurricane
Ever
Recorded

45% of the
population of
Tazumuddin
was killed.

> 500,000

Devastated
many off
shore islands
Hurricane
10/22/1998 Honduras;
Mitch
11/9/1998 Nicaragua;
(Hurricane 2)
Majority of
Central
America;
Florida, USA

180 mph
highest
recorded
wind speed

Great
10/9/1780
Hurricane of 10/20/1780
1780
(Hurricane 3)

Lesser
Antilles;
Puerto Rico;
Hispaniola;
Bermuda;
Possibly East
Florida and
some eastern
US states

200 mph
highest
recorded
wind speed

Marshall
Islands;
Guam;
Rota

185 mph
highest
recorded
wind speed

Typhoon Paka 11/28/1997

(Hurricane 4)
12/23/1997

> 19,325

Fourth Most
Intense
Atlantic
Hurricane

Caused $6.2
billion
(USD) in
damage
2.7 million
were left
homeless

> 22,000

Deadliest
Atlantic
Hurricane on
record

Destroyed
584 of 600
houses in
Kingstown,
Saint Vincent
40 French
ships
involved in
the American
Revolution
were
capsized,
killing about
4,000
soldiers

None
reported

None

Caused $580
Million
(USD) in
damage
Was strong
enough to
retired the
name Paka in
2006

Tri-State
Tornado
(Tornado 1)

03/19/1925

Southeast
Missouri;
Southern
Illinois;
Southwest
Indiana

F5 (Fujita
Scale; Not
officially
rated)

695

Deadliest
Single
Tornado in
US History
Longest
Track Ever
Recorded

Most
standout
tornado of a
system of 12
tornadoes
that struck
the
midwestern
and southern
US
Was likely
accompanied
by satellite
tornadoe

Daulatpur
Saturia
tornado

04/26/1998

Manikganj
District,
Bangladesh

N/A

1,300
(estimated)

Deadliest
Tornado in
History

80,000 left
homeless
Fujita scale
rating
unknown due
to lack of
data and poor
infastructure

(Tornado 2)

Bridge Creek 05/3/1999

Moore
Tornado
(Tornado 3)

Oklahoma
City,
Oklahoma

F5 (Fujita
Scale)

36 (+5
Indirect)

Highest
Windspeeds
Ever
Recorded
(302 mph)

Caused $1
Billion
(USD) in
damage
8,132 homes
were
destroyed

Valdiva
Earthquake
(Earthquake
1)

05/22/1960

Lumaco,
Chille
(Epicenter)

9.5 Seismic
Scale

2,230
6,000

Most
Powerful
Earthquake
Ever
Recorded

Destroyed a
number of
colonial
Spanish forts
Caused a
volcanic vent
near Puyehue
Volcano to
errupt

Good Friday
Earthquake
(Earthquake
2)

03/27/1964

Prince
William
Sound,
Alaska
(Epicenter)

9.2 Seismic
Scale

15 (+106
from
following
tsunamis)

Strongest
Earthquake
Recorded in
the US

Caused $311
Million
(USD) In
Damage
($2.28
Billion
today)
First day
alone, eleven
aftershocks
over 6.0
occurred,
with
thousands of
aftershocks
occurring
over the
course of a
year.

Indian Ocean 12/26/2004

Earthquake
(Earthquake
3)

Huaynaputina 02/19/1600
Eruption
(Volcano 1)

Indonesia

Peru

9.1-9.3
Seismic
Scale

N/A

At Least
280,000

1500

Longest
Duration of
Faulting Ever
Observed
(Between 8.3
and 10
minutes)

Caused other
earthquakes
to occur, as
far away as
Alaska

None

Was a direct
factor in the
climate
change that
caused the
Russian
famine of
1601

Caused the
entire planet
to vibrate as
much as 1
centimeter

Took 150
years for
regional
agricultural
economies to
recover

Novarupta
Eruption
(Volcano 2)

06/6/1912

Aleutian
Range,
Alaska

Rated 6 on
the Volcanic
Explosivity
Index

None

None

60-hour long
eruption
expelled up
to 4.1 cubic
miles of
magma
Created a
2,000 ft
deep, 1.9 by
2.5 mile
caldera

1883
Krakatoa
Eruoption
(Volcano 3)

08/26/1888

08/27/1888

Krakatau
archipelago

N/A

36,417

One of the
deadliest and
most
destructive
eruptions in
history

Destroyed
much of the
island and it's
surrounding
archipelago
Final
eruption was
so powerful,
it blew the
eardrums of
sailors 40
miles away

2000s
Australian
Drought
(Drought 1)

1995 2009 Australia

(Some areas
no longer
eligible as
late as May
2012)

N/A

None

Worst
Australian
Drought on
Record

Federal
government
provided
$4.5 billion
is assistance
2006 rainfaill
was 40-60%
lower than
average

Shicuan
Province,
China
Drought
(Drought 2)

2006

Shicuan
Province,
China

N/A

None

China's
Worst
Drought in
Modern
Times

8 million
people and 7
million cattle
faced water
shortages
Economic
loss
predicted at
$313 Million
(USD)

1931 Central July

China Floods November
(Flood 1)
1931

Yellow
River;
Yangtze
River; Huai
River
(China)

N/A

145,000
4,000,000

Among the
Deadliest
Natural
Disasters
Ever
Recorded

Chinese
sources
report death
tolls at
145,000,
while
Western
sources
report up to
4,000,000
Mao Zedong
created the
Three Gorges
Dam project
due to the
flooding.

St. Felix
Flood
(Flood 2)

11/5/1530

Netherlands

N/A

> 100,000

None

Date later
known as
Evil
Saturday
Large
portions of
Flanders and
Zeeland were
washed away

1908 Messina 12/28/1908

and Reggio
Tsunami
(Tsunami 1)

Italy

39 ft wave

100,000
200,000

None

Quake and
Tsunami
nearly
destroyed the
cities of
Messina and
Reggio
Calabria
70,000 of the
fatalities
were in
Messina
alone

1775 Lisbon
Tsunami
(Tsunami 2)

11/1/1775

Kingdom of
Portugal

N/A

10,000
100,000

None

Tsunami
speed was so
great that
Several
people riding
on horseback
had to gallop
full speed to
avoid being
carried
away
Caused mass
confusion
and anxiety,
as the quake
and tsunami
happened on
a religious
holiday, and
had
destroyed
nearly all the
churches in
the city

Great Fire of
1901
(Fire 1)

05/3/1901

Jacksonville, N/A
Florida

Largest
Urban Fire in
the
Southeastern
US

Destroyed
more than
2,368
buildings and
left 10,000
homeless
Sparks from
a chimney
ignited
Spanish
Moss left out
to dry at the
Cleaveland
Fibre
Factory,
starting the
fire

Great Fire of
Valparaiso
(Fire 2)

04/12/2014

04/16/2014

Valparaiso,
Chile

N/A

15

None

Destroyed
2,500 homes,
leaving
11,000
homeless
While the
origin of the
fire is not
known, the
Oficina
Nacional de
Emergencia
del
Ministerio
del Interior
says that the
fire was no
doubt started
by a third
party

2014 Pune
07/30/2014
Landslide
(Landslide 1)

Mahashtra,
India

4 inches of
rainfall
believed to
be cause

134 (Up to
200
additional,
buried in
houses)

None

Rescue
efforts drew
to a close on
August 7,
2014
Deforestation
in the area is
said to have
played a roll
in the
landslide

Vargas
12/14/1999
Tragedy

(Landslide 2) 12/16/1999

Vargas State, 35.9 inches

Veneuela
of rainfall
believed to
be cause

10,000
30,000

None

10% of
Vargas's
population
was killed
Cost of
damage
estimated at
$1.79 Billion
(USD)

1972 Iran
Blizzard
(Blizzard 1)

02/3/1972 Northwestern 10 feet of

02/9/1972
, Central, and snow
Southern Iran (Average)

4,000

Deadliest
Blizzard in
History

As much as
26 ft of snow
was dumped
on Southern
Iran
Kakkan and
Kumar
villages had
absolutely no
survivors