Category

~ Dates

Place

Dead/Injuries

avalanche

January 10, 1962

Mt. Huascaran, Peru

4000

cold

January 5, 1998

Bangladesh, Dhaka

165

cyclones

October 10, 1960

Bangladesh 5 within 5 years!!!

14 000+++

cyclones

October 16, 1942

Bengal, India

40 000

cyclones

May 28, 1963

Chittagong, Bangladesh

20 000

cyclones

October 27, 1958

Thailand

800

cyclones

November 5, 1991

Thelma, Philippines

3000

cyclones

December 25, 1974

Tracy, Darwin across Bathurst Island

65

earthquake

February 29, 1960

Agadir, Morocco 11:45pm

12 000

earthquake

August 15, 1950

Assam region, India

25 000

earthquake

June 21, 1990

Caspian Sea redion, Iran

10 000

earthquake

September 6, 1978

Central Iran

25 000

earthquake

December 27, 1939

Erzincan, Turkey

50 000

earthquake

January 17, 1995

Kobe, Japan

30 000

earthquake

December 23, 1972

Managua, Nicaragua

6000

earthquake

February 4, 1975

Manchuria, China

2to3000

earthquake

?

Messina, Sicily

100 000

earthquake

June 17, 1956

Northern Afghanistan 8 days

2000

earthquake

May 31, 1935

Quetta, India

50 000

earthquake

August 4, 1998

Quito, Ecuador

3//150

earthquake

April 18, 1906

San Francisco

700

earthquake

October 18, 1989

Santa Cruz, San Francisco

67//3000

earthquake

September 1, 1923

Tokyo and Yokohama

140 000

floods

August 1, 1976

Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado

139

floods

January 16, 1969

California south

100

floods

July 27, 1998

Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan provinces, China

1270

floods

February 14, 1966

Johannesburg, South Africa

30

Floods

Manitoba

floods

May 14, 1934

Tiberias, Palestine

20

gas

August 21, 1986

Lake Nios, Cameroon highlands

1746

hailstones

June 19, 1932

Hunan province, China

200

heat wave

July 23, 1968

Japan

80

heat wave

November 10, 1969

RiodeJaneiro, Brazil

35//400

hurricane

September 13, 1938

Great New England, eastern USA

600

hurricane

August 22, 1992

H. Andrew, U.S.A.

??

hurricane

August 25, 1979

H. David, USA & Dominican Republic

1205

hurricane

October 1, 1966

H. Inez, Caribbean and Mexico

300

hurricane

October 30, 1998

H. Mitch, Honduras

??

hurricane

August 27, 1900

Texas.

6000

ice

January 13, 1982

plane crash, Potomac River, Washington

76

ice storm

May 10, 1996

Mt. Everest - climbers

8

Ice storm

QUEBEC

landslide

January 7, 1999

Bali,Indonesia

40

landslide

June 28, 1973

Bogota, Colombia

200

landslide

June 25, 1963

Pusan district, South Korea

116

landslide

July 30, 1997

Thredbo, Australia

18

landslide

October 9, 1963

Vaiont Dam, Belluno, Italy

2000

landslide

March 23, 1915

Vancouver, Canada

50//100

lightning

April 22, 1966

Electra plane, Ardmore, Oklahoma

82

lightning

October 25, 1998

Soccer players, Congo

11

mercury

Septem 30, 1971

Al Basrah, Iraq

500

mine

February 27, 1943

Smith mine Washoe, Montana

74

mining

February 8, 1931

Fushun coal mines, Manchuria, China

30 000

mining

February 7, 1962

Saarland, Germany

298

mudslides

February 17, 1997

Andes, Peru

130

radioactive

March 28, 1979

3-Mile Island, U.S.A.

0

radioactive

April 26, 1986

Chernobyl, Ukraine

600 000+++

radioactive

January 6, 1986

Kerr-McGee nuclear plant, Oklahoma

1//12

snowstorm

February 24, 1936

California and Nevada

26

snowstorm

January 29, 1922

Knickerbocker cinema, New York City

107

space

January 27, 1967

Apollo 1, Cape Kennedy

3

space

January 28, 1986

Challenger

7

space

April 24, 1967

Russian Soyuz1 - Vladimir Komarov

1

space

June 30, 1971

Russian Soyuz11 (orII)

3

tornadoes

February 19, 1984

central and southern U.S.A. 

800

tornadoes

April 14, 1969

Dhaka, Bangladesh

450

tornadoes

April 6, 1936

Gainesville, Georgia 8:45am

187

tornadoes

May 20, 1957

Kansas City

39

tsunamis

April 1, 1946

Hawaii

200//1000

tsunamis

July 12, 1993

Okushiri, Japan

200

tsunamis

July 18, 1998

Sepik provinc, northern Papua New Guinea

2000

twisters

March 22, 1932

Tornado Belt, U.S.A.

268

typhoon

September 21, 1934

Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe

4000

typhoon

August 2, 1922

Shantou, China

50 000

typhoon

July 20, 1916

Sri Lanka, Colombo

200

typhoon

June 9, 1960

Typhoon Mary, Fukien province, China

1600

virus

September 20, 1933

Bubonic Plague, Manchuria, China

1000

virus

April 12, 1995

Ebola virus, Kikwit, Zaire

50

virus

August 20, 1997

Hong Dong Chicken Flu

18//+++1957

volcano

January 12, 1947

Cerro Negro, Nicaragua

city of Leon

volcano

August 26, 1983

Krakatoa

36 000

volcano

January 21, 1951

Mt. Lamington, New Guinea

6000

volcano

May 8, 1902

Mt. Pelee, St. Pierre, Martinique

36 000

volcano

July 13, 1992

Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines

300

volcano

May 18, 1980

Mt. St. Helens, Portland, Oregon

57

volcano

November 16, 1985

Nevada del Ruiz, Colombia

25 000

volcano

September 19, 1994

Rabaul, Papua New Guinea

??