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1970 Bhola cyclone Taking the cake for the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded the 1970 Bhola Cyclone hit East Pakistan (Bangladesh today) and India's West Bengal on November 12, 1970. While the exact death toll is unknown it is estimated that 300,000-500,000 people perished in the aftermath of this storm, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters recent history. This cyclone was not extremely large, reaching strengths equivalent of a Category 3 Hurricane. The killing power of this storm was almost completely attributed to the cyclone's surge which flooded most of the low lying islands in the Ganges Delta, literally wiping villages and crops off the face of the earth. Typhoon Nina 1975 Not to be known as some regular typhoon Super Typhoon Nina came onto the scene with a bang, hitting China hard and quickly destroying the Banqiao Dam. The collapse of the Banqiao Dam led to such great flooding that it set off a series of dam collapses throughout China, g...

Natural disasters killed some 295,000 people around the world last year, "an exceptionally high number of fatalities," according to one of the world's largest insurers. "The high number of weather-related natural catastrophes and record temperatures both globally and in different regions of the world provide further indications of advancing climate change." This assessment is confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, which said in December that "2010 is almost certain to rank in the top three warmest years since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850." A total of 950 natural disasters were recorded last year, nine-tenths of them weather-related events such as storms and floods. This made 2010 the year with the second-highest number of natural catastrophes in the past 30 years, the company said. "2010 showed the major risks we have to cope with. There were a number of severe earthquakes. The hurricane season was ...

Label info : M = magnitude, D = depth (km), Time = UTC – Russia time = 8 time zones! SRC Location UTC Date/time M D INFORMATION EMSC Caucasus Region, Russia Sep 14 10:44 AM 3.4 10.0 MAP I Felt It EMSC Lake Baykal Region, Russia Sep 12 23:24 PM 4.0 10.0 MAP I Felt It EMSC Sakhalin, Russia Sep 11 15:04 PM 4.1 33.0 MAP I Felt It GEOFON Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Sep 08 19:19 PM 4.2 255.0 MAP I Felt It EMSC Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Sep 08 19:19 PM 4.4 269.0 MAP I Felt It USGS Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Sep 08 19:19 PM 4.3 270.7 MAP I Felt It ...