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The Natural Disasters

  • Hurrican of 1959

    Hurrican of 1959
    The Pacific coast of Mexico was affected by a tropical cyclone in 1959. The dead by this disaster amounts to more than 2000 making it the deadliest hurricane of the Pacific Ocean.
  • Eruption the Chichonal

    Eruption the Chichonal
    The volcano located in the municipality of Chapultenango in Chiapas for its type plinian eruption covered 100 kilometers and 17 kilometers altitude. He left more than 2000 dead. Their ashes arrived in Tabasco, Campeche, Oaxaca, Veracruz and Puebla.
  • Terremoto the 1985

    Terremoto the 1985
    Took place on the Pacific coast in the limits of Michoacan and Guerrero, severely affected the City of Mexico.
    Had a scale of 8.1 Richter degrees and buildings such as schools, offices, condominiums, hospitals etc.
  • Armero Tragedy

    Armero Tragedy
    Was the product of the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz. Glacial flows near the 10% of the glacier of the mountain, sending four flows of mud, dirt and debris. There were about 23 000 deaths.
  • Hurricane Paulina

    Hurricane Paulina
    It was one of the less intense in the country but even so the material losses reached $62 million
  • Hurrican Gordon

    Hurrican Gordon
    It was one of the storms that touched ground in USA Gordon was a category 1 hurricane on the Gulf of Mexico but weakened to a tropical storm before reaching Florida. Left 24 dead and 2 missing.
  • Hurricane Wilma

    Hurricane Wilma
    Toco Mexican land affecting principally to the Quintana Roo Coast, the tourist area of Cancun and thousands of people. The hurricane is that more material damage has been caused with a figure of one thousand $752 million.
  • Forest fire in Victoria

    Forest fire in Victoria
    Becomes the forest fire more deadly in Australia leaving 189 people dead, more than 500 people injured and damaging to 1834 homes
  • Tornado de San Carlos en Chile

    Tornado de San Carlos en Chile
    Originated from a cloud called "Cumulonimbos" and the cloud was caused by a change in temperature explained by global warming and the cold air which produces a atmospheric pressure between the ground and the air.
  • Terreoto the Chile

    Terreoto the Chile
    It had a magnitude of 8.3 lasted more than 3 minutes and the epicentre was located some 177 kilometors north of the coastal city of Valparaiso