Sentences with phrase «killed by natural disasters»

Only 280 Americans were killed by natural disasters in 2015, which is dramatically below the 30 - year annual average of 580 deaths.

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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.

It's clear that the salvation of those in third world countries whose lives are devastated by natural disasters is not going to be found in slightly reducing the power of climatological disasters (oestensibly to pre-industrial levels when they were also quite good a killing people.)

The effect on the salmon population is disturbing, but pale in comparison to the fish kills caused by natural disasters like hurricanes and psunamis.