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The worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century is considered to be the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902. It was on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean and it killed around 30,000 people.

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Another of Indonesia ' s volcanoes, its eruption in 1883, killed over 35,000 people mainly due to resulting tsunamis. There were a series of extremely violent explosions over a few months and the biggest could be heard more than 2,000 miles away in Australia.

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This is one of Indonesia ' s 100-plus active volcanoes. It caused disease and harmed the growth of crops in the surrounding regions, and caused climate changes as far away as North https://t.co/6hrxqNiZPz killed over 90,000 people.

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Hurricane Ike was the Category 4 storm that made landfall in the U.S. in September of 2008. Ike caused the most damage along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. However, it was felt through the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys as well, and even impacted some parts of eastern Canada.

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If you were on the East Coast of the United States in October of 2012, you definitely felt at least some effects of Hurricane Sandy. New York and New Jersey residents felt the full impact of the storm, with much of Manhattan.

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The Category 5 Hurricane Katrina by far tops this list. In the U.S., areas up and down the eastern seaboard felt Katrina. However, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, and especially Louisiana were hit incredibly hard. The image of the levy breaking in New Orleans

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The earthquake of 8.9 degrees on the open Richter scale and the subsequent tsunami that hit northeast Japan has reached catastrophe figures: the Defense Ministry assures that the deaths may be more than 1,000, despite that the provisional and official balance estimates the victim

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That fateful day, a tsunami swept through the Indian Ocean, killing more than 200,000 lives in the countries that were directly affected by the catastrophe. Millions of people, although they survived the fury of the giant wave, ended up with their houses and cities destroyed.

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On May 22, 1960, near Valdivia, Chile, an earthquake of magnitude 9.5 (Mw) occurred, it is the largest earthquake recorded worldwide since the instrumental record exists. This earthquake caused a tsunami of which a wave train was registered with periods of approximately 30 min.

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The earth trembled again in Mexico when exactly 32 years of the greatest disaster in the history of Mexico City have passed. At 7:19 am on September 19, 1985, the capital of the country was shaken by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake.

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Alaska is part of the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismic and volcanic zone that covers the west coast of the Americas and east Asia, as well as the islands of Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia , Malaysia and New Zealand.

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Sunday, May 22, 1960, an underground and hoarse noise broke into the Sunday tranquility of the residents of the city of Valdivia, located in the south of Chile, who at that time were enjoying the autumn sun.