Sentences with phrase «deadliest natural disasters»

Meanwhile, deadly natural disasters revealed the strengths and limitations of science.
The massive earthquake that rocked Japan on 11 March 2011 killed more than 20,000 people, making it one of the most deadly natural disasters in the country's history.
That would make the storm — Tropical Cyclone Nargis — one of Myanmar's most deadly natural disasters and the second largest in the region after the tsunami of 2004, which took nearly 200,000 lives.
A southern Illinois town that had its own deadly natural disaster in 2012 is collecting bug repellant for people who are recovering from Hurricane Harvey.
Floods are the most deadly natural disasters that occur in the United States, and still, people do not have the adequate protection for their houses.
These giant waves, caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and underwater landslides, are some of the deadliest natural disasters known; the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 230,000 people, a higher death toll than any fire or hurricane.
The devastating tsunami that was generated in the Indian Ocean in 2004 after a magnitude 9 earthquake has been recorded as one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history after it caused over 230,000 deaths in 14 countries.
The storm, which was the costliest hurricane as well as one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, made it's second and third landfalls in the Gulf Coast region on August 29, 2005 as a Category 3 hurricane.
But its floods, which led to some of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history, have also earned it the name «China's sorrow.»
The trouble with The Impossible, which tells the story of a family whose Christmas vacation in Thailand is regrettably disrupted by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, isn't that it arrives «too soon,» but that there will never be an appropriate time for a film that so dubiously depicts the toll of one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.
The Impossible tells the true story of a family's harrowing experience in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters on record.
It also appears to be the deadliest natural disaster ever to hit the island nation.
The Galveston hurricane of September 8, 1900, is still regarded as the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, this devastating storm swept away everything in its path, left an estimated 10,000 - 12,000 dead and thousands more homeless.
American Humane was first to serve our best friends in their worst times, saving, sheltering and aiding thousands of frightened, hurt and hungry animals left homeless by the West Virginia floods, the Tennessee wildfires, and the historic deluge in Louisiana — the deadliest natural disaster since Superstorm Sandy.
In 2004, the world experienced one of two deadliest natural disasters of the past century.
Brazil started the year with the deadliest natural disaster in its history: In January, a month's worth of rain fell in a single day in Rio de Janeiro state, leading to floods and landslides that killed at least 900 people.
Flash floods are one of the deadliest natural disasters in the U.S. and Maryland is especially vulnerable to hurricanes moving up the Atlantic coast.
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