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1900 Galveston hurricane - Wikipedia  The Great Galveston Hurricane was a Category 4 storm, with winds of up to 145 mph (233 km/h), which made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, in the United States, leaving about 6,000 to 12,000 dead. ... The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States.
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Deadly hurricane destroys Galveston - Sep 08, 1900 - HISTORY.com  However, these advisories were ignored by many vacationers and residents .... Disaster. 1900. Deadly hurricane batters Texas. One of the deadliest ... hits Galveston, Texas, on this day in 1900, killing more than 6,000 people. The storm caused so much destruction on the Texas coast that reliable ... ARVN general killed.
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A History of Destruction: 8 Great Hurricanes - Live Science  Jun 7, 2013 ... Five years ago this week, one of the most devastating storms ever to ... While Katrina is the most remembered of these swirling storms  its ... of the nearby Texas coast, according to a National Hurricane Center (NHC) historical account. ... 256 deaths (143 on the Gulf Coast and 113 died in floods when the...
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J! Archive - Show #3790, aired 2001-02-09  The U.S. Navy bought the first modern one of these, which used gasoline on the surface ... One of these natural disasters killed 6,000 people on the Texas coast...
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NOAA History - Stories and Tales of the Weather Service/StormTales ...  Feb 4, 2004 ... On September 8, 1900, the greatest natural disaster to ever strike the United States occurred at Galveston, Texas. ... As a result, much of the city was destroyed and at least 6,000 people were killed in a few hours time. ... It is a sand island about thirty miles in length and one and one-half to three miles in...
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Hurricane Matthew kills 276, tears through Haiti, Bahamas, Cuba ...  Oct 6, 2016 ... Cholera threatening Haiti in wake of Hurricane Matthew ... Four people died in the Dominican Republic, the country's government said. ...... People near Kingston, Jamaica, take a photo in front of the rough surf produced by...
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Hurricane Katrina: Facts, Damage & Aftermath - Live Science  Aug 27, 2015 ... Hurricane Katrina, at one point a Category Five storm, caused millions of ... August 2005, and millions of others were left homeless along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans. ... which held the strongest winds, slammed into Gulfport and Biloxi, ... Ten years later, the region was still recovering from Katrina.
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The world's worst offshore oil rig disasters - Offshore Technology  Jan 2, 2014 ... The world's 10 deadliest offshore oil rig disasters ... The Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea, UK, which killed 167 people in July 1988, is the ... flanges causing gas ignition and serial explosions on the platform. ... The Ocean Ranger oil drilling rig disaster which occurred in the North Atlantic Sea off the...
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Timeline Disasters and Tragedies  It had spanned the reigns of 3 Tang emperors before it was quashed. ... 1556 Feb 2, The worst earthquake in history devastated China's Shanxi ... It was one of the major hydraulic disasters in the world with some 4,000 human lives lost. ... ship Sao Jose--Paquete de Africa sank off the coast of South Africa's Cape Town.
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Deadly hurricane batters Texas - Sep 08, 1900 - HISTORY.com  One of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history hits Galveston, Texas, on this day in ... Some believe that as many as 12,000 people perished, which would make it the ... The storm hit Galveston on Saturday, September 8, with sustained winds of at ... fire and these roofs became flying weapons of destruction as the hurricane...
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jeopardy/1433_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  IT'S A DISASTER | When one of these hit Galveston, Texas in September 1900, causing a flood, as many as ... Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a carnival attraction holding corn.) The Iowa State Fair features plenty of corn products--fitting for a state that in 2004 produced 2.2 billion of these units of corn | bushels.
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Hurricane Matthew: 'Record-Breaking Flooding' in NC, US Deaths ...  Oct 9, 2016 ... Enter town name or ZIP ... Hurricane Matthew: 'Record-Breaking Flooding' in NC, US Deaths ... On Sunday, communities in eastern Virginia and North Carolina ... to address in coastal communities across the region  even those hit by the ... time for tropical cyclone activity, NOAA explained on its website.
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Prestige oil spill - Wikipedia  The Prestige oil spill was an oil spill in Galicia caused by the sinking of the oil tanker MV Prestige in 2002. ... Fearing that the ship would sink, the captain called for help from Spanish rescue workers, with the ... of the tanker's 77,000 tons of fuel oil is now thought to have been spilled off Spain's north-west coast. .... BBC News.
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Facts About the 1964 Alaska Earthquake - Live Science  Mar 27, 2014 ... Of the 131 people killed during the earthquake, 119 died in tsunamis. ... single spaghetti strand, then a magnitude-9.2 earthquake releases enough energy to snap ... It's Not Hard: Here's How To Learn A Language In An Hour!
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Hurricane Matthew expected to cause 'devastating impacts' in Haiti  Oct 3, 2016 ... Hurricane Matthew is poised to bring catastrophic flooding to Haiti ... 195 miles and hurricane-force winds about 32 miles from its center. ... Mayaguana, Acklins, Crooked Island, Long Cay and Ragged Island, and the Turk and Caicos Islands. ... Republic from Puerto Plata westward to the border with Haiti.
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Casualties and damage after the 1906 Earthquake  Apr 7, 2016 ... Stanford University 1906 Earthquake damage. ... 498 deaths in San Francisco; 64 deaths in Santa Rosa; 102 deaths in and near San Jose ... estimated that over 3000 deaths were caused directly or indirectly by the catastrophe. ... Eyewitness Accounts  Other Major Earthquakes in the SF Bay Area  Learn...
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Typhoon Omar - Wikipedia  Typhoon Omar of 1992, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Lusing, was the strongest and costliest typhoon to strike Guam since Typhoon Pamela in 1976. The cyclone formed on August 23 from the monsoon trough across the western Pacific Ocean. Moving westward, Omar slowly intensified into a tropical storm, although ... On Guam, Omar caused one death and $457 million (1992 USD) in damage.
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Deadly hurricane batters Texas - Sep 08, 1900 - HISTORY.com  One of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history hits Galveston, Texas, on this day in 1900, killing more than 6,000 people. The storm caused ... The St. Mary's Orphanage collapsed and killed all the inhabitants. At the ... to 36,000. Thanks to the city's preparations, when a comparable storm hit in 1915, only eight people died.
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Lott, N., and T. Ross, 2006: Tracking and evaluating U. S. billion ...  report, Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters, receives over 30,000 web hits ... adjusted damages/costs due to these extreme events. This paper .... Preliminary estimate of over $2 billion in damage/costs ... deaths. 2003 Southern California Wildfires, Late October- ... Texas and Louisiana, causing severe flooding especially.
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Cyclone Tracy - Wikipedia  Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974, devastated the city of Darwin, ... Tracy killed 71 people, caused A$837 million in damage (1974 dollars), or approximately A$4.45 billion (2014 dollars). It destroyed more than 70 percent of Darwin's buildings, including 80 percent of...
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