Natural Disasters

Haiti’s devastating earthquake made international headlines in 2010. In the years following the disaster, it became clea... Read more

In 1913, an inland cyclone struck Lake Superior and Lake Huron and buried the city of Cleveland in snow. Several freight... Read more

Extreme temperatures would kill more than 700 Chicagoans over the course of 5 days in July of 1995. The tragedy would le... Read more

On January 12th, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, killing over 300,000 people. The quake w... Read more

In 1996, two climbing groups set out to reach the peak of Mount Everest, the highest point on planet Earth. A sudden, un... Read more

During the 1930s, dust storms destroyed millions of acres of farmland and displaced over 3 million families in the midwe... Read more

A massive explosion that occurred in the remote wilderness of Russia in 1908. Though more than a century has passed sinc... Read more

In 1845, a fungus destroyed Ireland’s potato crops, leaving the Irish population without its main food source. The first... Read more

A tornado touched down in the spring of 2011 near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Over the next five days, hundreds more tornados w... Read more

In 1928, one of the deadliest storms ever recorded in the North Atlantic basin began to form off the coast of Africa. As... Read more

As the debilitating drought waged on, farming families in the Great Plains fought to survive as terrible dust storms lai... Read more

The wind howled. The clouds surrounded the mountain, dropping the temperature down below freezing. The climbers of Mount... Read more

Seventy-five thousand years ago, the Toba Supervolcano decimated the Indonesian archipelago. It was one of the largest v... Read more

In April of 2011, a tornado touched down near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Another one soon followed. Then another, then another... Read more

Following one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, Japan was buffeted by an unbelievably powerful tsunami. Al... Read more

A devastating event from 536-537 C.E. where a dry, blue fog darkened skies across Europe and Asia for over a year, causi... Read more

From November 7th through the 10th, 1913, the Great Lakes of North America experienced one of the worst storms on record... Read more

It was the largest natural blaze in U.S. history—the result of human agricultural inexperience, a freak climate, and unb... Read more

In 79 CE, the Roman citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum believed that Mount Vesuvius was an extinct volcano. That is, un... Read more

For the six months leading up to January 1910, France experienced record-setting rainfall that predicated one of the wor... Read more