natural disasters

  • Sep 20, 1498

    tsunami

    Enshunada sea, Japan
    September 20th 1498
    31,000 deaths
  • tsunami

    Ise Bay, Japan
    January 18th 1586
    8000 deaths
  • volcano

    . Vesuvius, Italy
    1631
    3500 deaths
  • tsunami

    Nankaido, Japan
    October 27th 1707
    30,000 deaths
  • tsunami

    Lisbon, Portugal
    November 1st 1755
    60,000 deaths
  • tsunami

    Ryuku Islands, Japan
    April 24th 1771
    12,000 deaths
  • volcano

    . Laki, Iceland
    1783
    9,350 deaths
  • volcano

    . Unzen, Japan
    1792
    14,300 deaths
  • volcano

    Tambora, Indonesia
    1815
    92,000 deaths
  • tsunami

    . Northern Chile
    August 13th 1868
    25,000 deaths
  • volcano

    Galunggung, Indonesia
    1882
    4,011 deaths
  • tsunami

    Krakatau, Indonesia
    August 27th 1883
    2,000 deaths
  • volcano

    Krakatau, Indonesia
    1883
    36,417 deaths
  • tsunami

    . Sanriku, Japan
    June 15th 1896
    22,000 deaths
  • volcano

    Mount Pelee, Martinique
    1902
    29,025 deaths
  • earthquake

    . Off the coast of Ecuador
    January 31st 1906
  • volcano

    . Kelut, Indonesia
    1919
    5,110 deaths
  • earthquake

    Assam, Tibet
    August 15th 1950
    8.6 magnitude
  • earthquake

    Kamchatka, Russia
    November 4th 1952
    9.0 magnitude
  • earthquake

    . Valdivia, Chile
    May 22nd 1960
    9.5 magnitude
  • earthquake

    Prince William Sound
    March 28th 1964
    9.2 magnitude
  • earthquake

    Rat Islands, Alaska
    April 2nd 1965
    8.7 magnitude
  • oil

    Coast of Brittany, France
    1978
    223,000 tonnes oil spilt
  • oil

    Gulf of Mexico
    June 1979
    454,000 tonnes oil spilt
  • oil

    . Caribbean sea
    July 1979
    287,000 tonnes
  • oil

    Nowruz oil field
    February 10th 1983
    260,000 tonnes oil spilt
  • oil

    Coast of Capetown
    August 1983
    252,000 tonnes oil spilt
  • volcano

    Ruiz, Columbia
    1985
    25,000 deaths
  • oil

    Nova Scotia
    November 1988
    132,000 tonnes oil spilt
  • oil

    Persian gulf
    1991
    1,360,000-1,500,000tonnes oil spilt
  • oil

    The coast of Italy
    April 1991
    145,000 tonnes oil spilt
  • oil

    . Angolan coast
    1991
    260,000 tonnes oil spilt
  • oil

    Fergana valley
    1992
    285,000 tonnes oil spilt
  • tsunami

    Sumatra, Indonesia
    26 December 2004
    230,000 deaths
  • earthquake

    Sumatra, Indonesia
    December 26th 2004
    9.1 magnitude
  • earthquake

    Sumatra, Indonesia
    March 28th 2005
    8.6 magnitude
  • earthquake

    . Bio-bio, Chile
    February 27th 2010
    8.8 magnitude
  • tsunami

    North Pacific Coast, Japan
    March 11th 2011
    18,000 deaths
  • earthquake

    Sendai, Japan
    March 11th 2011
    9.0 magnitude