Worst Disasters in The Last Century

A look at disasters that affected many people’s lives.

In 1906 an earthquake fire in San Francisco, an earthquake of 7.8 magnitude caused from the San Andreas Fault and reached the centre and in one of the biggest cities in the world, with a loud blast causing fires and many people died in this disaster.

In 1910 the Big Burn, a wild fire that was fought by men flaring through three million acres of ground, going at seventy five miles an hour this was like one hundred and fifty feet of the ground, an ordeal not to be forgotten.

The Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918, something that started like any other flu, with a  slight cough and a headache, rapidly going into high temperatures up to 104, degrees F, and killing millions of people around the world.

A Tri-State Tornado, this affected some American states in 1925, ever since,  there has never been another tornado like this one. Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois were struck by it, at that time tornado was not even in the weather programme.  People were killed in minutes.

In New England  hurricane in 1938, a devastating eye opener, destroyed everything is sight, and million dollars worth of damages, loss of homes and people were killed too.

The Great Alaskan Earthquake  and Tsunami in 1964, a magnitude of 9.2 struck in Alaska, giving way to under water slides causing Tsunamis and this lasted four minutes, being the largest earthquake in North America.

This disaster occurred in 1974, the Super Tornado Outbreak,  over the United States the winds got cold and dry, of 140 miles per hour and of an altitude of forty thousand feet, nobody knew what was going to b of this when the weather changed. There were three weather patterns,that combined to form the backbreaking one hundred and forty eight twisters which reached thirteen states.

Mount St. Helens Eruption in 1980 when an earthquake swept through this region when people were trapped and lost their lives disasters that have destroyed so much in our world.

In 1993 the storm of the century, for sure, people were left without power and it just kept going.

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, this was horrifying, people were homeless, lives lost the world helped to make things better. This disaster broke many people’s heart a sad one because most of us knew about it and had seen it every paper.