What was the worst disaster ever in America?
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Sept. 11...  This was NOT a war, we weren't expecting it and thousands of innocent poeple died.  There was Pearl Harbor before but, that was an attack on a military base so, I don't think that can qualify and there wasn't near as many people dead?  The others that you mentioned were war situations and in war people are expected to die.  I would say the War in Iraq but, that wouldn't qualify either becasue it's a war (for the same reasons above)
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(m)\n\nThe Twentieth Century's Largest Earthquake\n\n\nThree of the ten largest earthquakes of the twentieth century occurred in Alaska, striking in 1957, 1964, and 1965. The strongest of these (magnitude: 9.2) took place on Good Friday in 1964, hitting 80 miles east of Anchorage. The biggest earthquake of the century struck Chile on May 22, 1960. Its magnitude, the highest ever recorded, was 9.5. \n\nThe deadliest earthquake of all time is believed to have occurred on Jan. 24, 1556, in Shaanxi (Shensi) Province, China — 830,000 were killed.\n\n\nTsunami\n\n\nThe Alaskan Good Friday earthquake was followed by tsunami, or tidal waves, that reached 50 feet high and traveled a phenomenal 8,445 miles at 450 miles per hour. Tsunami is a Japanese term (tsu, port; nami, waves) presumably referring to the rising height of tsunami as they approach shore. \n\nBreaking on land, these tremendous waves can cause enormous destruction. The deadliest tsunami ever occurred on Dec, 26, 2004, killing more than 225,000 people and leaving millions homeless. \n\nIn addition to earthquakes, volcanoes can cause tsunami—after the eruption of Krakatoa on August 27, 1883, more than 36,000 people were killed by the tsunami alone.
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GW Bush is by far the most catastrophic president in American history. from the stolen 2000 election and his subsequent installment in the Whitehouse by his daddy's friends on the Supreme Court to his manipulation of intelligence info to lie our nation into a war for profit to his complete and utter failure before, during and after Katrine to his "stay the course" idiocy of his Middle Eastern Vietnam that rude, smirking inarticulate frat boy has committed so many crimes against our country and against the world it'd take me all night to list them.   THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER!  God help America!  he's got 2 more years to do more damage to our Constitutional rights, our environment, our old and our poor, our military, Iraq and the world.  the only ones benefiting from his misadministration are his "have and have mores" base including his war profiteering cronies who own big stock options in Big Oil, Halliburton and the Carlyle Group.
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Your worst nightmare.
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We live on the coast of Mississippi,and made it through hurricane Katrina,it was very scary.We had so many trees up rooted,Roof damage lots of water damage from the storm surge,We didn't get it as bad as a lot of people,but it is something I hope we never have to go through again.What everyone saw on TV is nothing compared to what we saw here,There is nothing like driving down the streets and seeing dead bodies of people and animals and coffins floating from where they washed up.It was horrible.
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Tornadoes Would be second for me. In an F-5's path very little is left standing or alive if not underground. All other natural disasters even Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Wildfires don't even come close to %100 total destruction in its path, wake, or epicenter. An F-5 may not be a %100 but it is closest of any of the so far mentioned ones.\n\nBut Out of all Natural Disasters I think A supervolcano Eruption May Eclipse all Experienced Natural Disasters!
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I saw a tornado in '90 when I lived out in Indiana - was the loudest noise I ever heard and I never want to hear again.  The sky was all weird too - a greenish-black.  As a native new englander I was pretty freaked out.\n\nI've been in a few hurricanes here in CT worst being Gloria in 1985.  The wind gets bad.. trees bent all the way to the ground..rain lashing against the house.  Then you get an eerie calm period in the eye and it starts all over again.  Luckily we don't get them as bad as the south.. I really feel for them!  Did a lot of damage.. had no power for a week.  Trees were broken, houses damaged severely.  I was out of high school for a week because all the electrical lines to the school were torn out.  \n\nI have been through more than my share of Nor'Easters too (snow storm indigenous to New England that pulls moisture from the Atlantic and brings it in from the northeast).  I've seen Nor'easters that have dumped 2-3 feet of snow in one shot.
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Not really.  To some extent or another, every state usually has some sort of natural disaster you'd have to worry about at one point or another.  You do realize, of course, that the safer states are the ones with the natural disasters that don't occur very often... and yet, when they DO occur, it's for major damage?\n\nBesides.... if you wanted to live some place where there's it's completely safe.... then it'd be in Alaska.  I'm fairly sure there's areas up there where you wouldn't have to worry about too much snow - but then again, there have been earthquakes up there...  never mind.  I don't think there's any place on the EARTH where it'd be disaster free, unless you want to live in a deep cave protected against outside elements in the center of a tectonic plate.......!\n\nBut, you know, I used to live in Michigan, and we never had to worry about mudslides, volcanoes, avalanches, wind storms, tropical storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, or droughts.  Sure, we had the very occasional hail storm, very VERY occasional wind/ice storm, and every winter we'd get a nice snow storm sometimes a blizzard, and lightning storms were normal, but not very severe like down south, occasional floods... and twisters/tornadoes were not unheard of, either.  But nothing like in Kansas!  ... But I did see a couple there.... \n\nAnyway.  Just so you know, there's always something that can happen anywhere....
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DISASTER---\n1.  damaging or destructive event: an event that causes serious loss, destruction, hardship, unhappiness, or death  \n2.  somebody or something unsuccessful: somebody or something that fails completely, especially in a way that is distressing, embarrassing, or laughable (informal) \n\nCATASTROPHE--- \n1.  disaster: a terrible disaster or accident, especially one that leads to great loss of life  \n2.  humiliating total failure: an absolute failure, often in humiliating or embarrassing circumstances  \n3.  theater resolution of plot: the concluding part of the action in a drama, especially a classical tragedy, when the plot is resolved  \n4.  geology violent seismic change: a sudden and violent change in the earth’s crust caused by an earthquake, flood, or any other natural process. \nAlso called cataclysm \n\nthat's what i know!! but that is a correct answer! i'm a vocabulary woman! =)
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http://home.att.net/~thehessians/disasterwatch.html
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Did you mean 1957?\n\nMarch 22, 1957 \nThe worst earthquake since 1906 struck at 11:45 this morning, and registered 5.3 on the Richter scale. The main shock had been preceded by at least six smaller quakes throughout the morning. The quake started some fires, including a blaze caused by a spill in the chemistry lab at old Lowell High School, according to Lowell student Frederick F. Postel. Fires connected to the earthquake broke out, but that was denied by the Fire Chief, possibly for political reasons. The tremor was preceded by a magnitude 3 shock at 8:38 a.m., and a magnitude 3.75 quake at 10:48 a.m. There were no lives lost. The quake was centered in the Westlake District of Daly City where many water heaters were ripped from their moorings and much plaster was damaged. \n\nThree-alarm fire at Mission and Duboce shortly after the earthquake in buildings scheduled to be torn down for the new Central Freeway. Fire Chief William F. Murray said the fire was not earthquake caused, but communications were jammed because of the tremor. Five firemen were injured. \n\nMany buildings suffered damage in the earthquake. KPIX at 2655 Van Ness suffered broken windows as did the Palace Hotel. The top floor of St. Anne's School at 13th and Irving was badly damaged, but the children were safe. The McCreery Branch of the library, on Sixteenth near Market was so badly damaged that it would be razed. The Presidio, Sunset and Richmond branch libraries were also damaged. A water main broke at City Hall and flooded Mole Hall under construction at Civic Center. Masonry fell from California Hall at Turk and Polk streets, and Central Emergency Hospital at 50 Ivy St. reported at least 50 people were treated for injuries. There was much glass and plaster damage at the ParkMerced Apartments, and the road at Lake Merced collapsed. Sheridan Elementary, Longfellow, Mission High and Park Presidio Junior High were closed because of earthquake damage. \n\nEnglish comedianne Gracie Fields said, "We were on the 16th floor of a hotel when the earthquake it. We were picked up like a wedding cake, shaken and then dropped to the floor again. It was very exciting." Plaster fell in the corridors at the Hall of Justice on Kearny St., but there were no injuries in the building. \n\nThe Municipal Organ, largest west of Chicago, had broken pipes and a dislodged harp attachment which would cost $300 to repair, according to James T. Graham, auditorium supervisor. At Golden Gate Park, the Portals of the Past, remnants of the Nob Hill home of A.N. Towne from 1906, were damaged by the earthquake when one column fell. \n\nMarch 23, 1957 \nFire broke out at the Twin Peaks Hotel, 2160 Market St., shortly after the 12:14 a.m. aftershock. Two policemen were felled by smoke while rescuing 50 people from the hotel and adjoining buildings. The arson squad could find no connection between the earthquake aftershock and the fire. \n\nSpeaking from his laboratory in Pasadena, Dr. Charles Richter said, This is not a prediction; it is only another way of saying that in California we must learn to live with the constant possibility of a serious earthquake." \n\nAdmiral A.G. Cook, the city's civil defense director, said a minimum of 70,000 homes had been damaged in the Bay Area by the earthquake. \n\nMarch 24, 1957 \nFire at the Crown Cork and Seal Co. on Bayshore Blvd. today was caused by boxes that fell in the earthquake and knocked a thermostat out of commission. That allowed an overhead gas heater to overheat and start the fire. It did $2500 damage. \n\nMarch 26, 1957 \nFire Chief Murray said none of the fires that occurred around the time of the earthquake were connected with the tremor. \n\nApril 1, 1957 \nCoast Highway 1 was reopened at Thornton Bluffs after earthquake- caused landslides were cleared away. \n\nApril 7, 1957 \nTwo mild aftershocks of the March 23 earthquake were felt. \n\nApril 9, 1957 \nAn earthquake-weakened water main broke at Haight and Buc
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1963 it was terrible day
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Worst. \n\nPresident.\n\nEver.
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Twenty-five years ago, one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history occurred in southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. Negligent strip mining and heavy rain produced a raging flood. In a matter of minutes, 118 were dead and over 4,000 people were left homeless. Seven were never found.
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ok first of all what r u asking deaster?\ndo u mean disaster?\nwell, a natural disaster is something like a hurricane, tornado, tsunami, flood, or a volcano. Its something that is caused by nature and destroys the land and stuff
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A look at the facts and figures surrounding the 1906 Great Quake\n- By The Associated Press\nTuesday, April 18, 2006\n\n(04-18) 00:01 PDT , (AP) --\n\nThe 1906 Great Quake and ensuing fires leveled San Francisco and was one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. Here's a look at some of the numbers behind the story:\n\n_ 5:12 a.m.: The quake struck at first light on April 18, 1906.\n\n_ 8.25: Early estimates on the Richter scale strength of the earthquake. Later studies have concluded it was between 7.7 and 7.9.\n\n_ 45-60 seconds: The worst shaking lasted less than a minute, by most accounts. Areas of Sonoma County felt it the most intensely.\n\n_ 296 miles: The length of the rupture in the San Andreas Fault.\n\n_ Three days: Fires stoked by unseasonably warm weather raged through April 20, as firefighting efforts were hampered by ruptured water lines and the loss of Chief Dennis Sullivan, who died in the quake.\n\n_ 28,000 of San Francisco 53,000 buildings were destroyed, including more than 500 blocks in the heart of the city.\n\n_ 225,000 of San Francisco's nearly 400,000 residents were left homeless.\n\n_ $400 million: Estimated property damage from the 1906 quake (equivalent to $8.2 billion in today's dollars).\n\n_ 95 percent: Percentage of San Francisco residents who were white in 1906. About 5 percent were Asian or Pacific islander, and less than 1 percent were black.\n\n_ 58 percent: 2004 estimate of San Francisco's white population. Thirty-four percent were Asian, 14 percent Hispanic and 8 percent black.\n\n_ 304: The number of farms listed in San Francisco on the 1900 U.S. Census. These were spread across 8,219 acres.\n\n_ 8: The number of farms listed by the Census in San Francisco in 2002. Total acreage not available.\n\n_ 87 percent: Proportion of California residents who do not have earthquake insurance.\n\n___\n\nSource: U.S. Census Bureau, California Earthquake Authority.\n\n\nURL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/04/18/state/n000115D19.DTL
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Any attack is the worst.  Their have been rumors of attacking subway stations, poisoning our water supplies, attacking nuclear power plants, etc...But wouldn't any attack, no matter how mild or severe, would be the worst outcome for the US.  Then we can go waste time in courts about how the government failed and point fingers at high officials while terrorists plan another attack.  The violent attack is only the beginning, the aftermath wars within the US government is what really sickens me.  So until war ends, yeah right, all attacks are terrible and all we can do is wish our soldiers good luck.\n\nGodspeed