1892 Mount Awu | |
|---|---|
| Total costs | N/A |
| Deaths | 1532 |
Mount Awu (Indonesian: Gunung Awu) is the largest volcano in the Sangihe chain, located in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Powerful eruptions occurred in 1711, 1812, 1856, 1892 and 1966 with devastating pyroclastic flows and lahars that have resulted in more than 8,000 fatalities altogether. A 4.5 km wide crater is found at the summit and a deep valley forms a passageway for lahars, splitting the flanks from the crater. This is a volcano in the Ring of Fire.
Source: Wikipedia 1948 Ashgabat earthquake | |
|---|---|
| Total costs | N/A |
| Deaths | 110000 |
The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake (Turkmen: 1948 Ашгабат ертитремеси, romanized: 1948 Aşgabat ýertitremesi; Russian: Ашхабадское землетрясение 1948 года, romanized: Ashkhabadskoye zemletryasenie 1948 goda) was on 6 October with a surface wave magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), in Turkmenistan near Ashgabat. Due to censorship by the Soviet government, the event was not widely reported in the USSR's media. Historians tend to agree that the ban on reporting the extent of the casualties and damage did not allow the Soviet government to allocate enough financial resources to adequately respond. It was the strongest earthquake recorded in Turkmenistan.
Source: WikipediaThe Thumb Fire took place on September 5, 1881, in the Thumb area of Michigan in the United...
St. Lucia's flood (Sint-Luciavloed) was a storm tide that affected the Netherlands and Northern...
The 1988–1989 North American drought ranks among the worst episodes of drought in the United...
In December 1631, Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupted. The eruption began on 16 December 1631 and...
Welcome to 