1. Created by Tracy Glova, Daniela Nguyen, and Ly Truong.
DANGEROUS DISASTERS
Created by Tracy Glova, Daniela Nguyen, and Ly Truong.

2. TOP 10 DEADLIEST EARTHQUAKES
Ten: The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
Nine: The Ashgabat Earthquake of 1924
Eight: The Hokkaido Earthquake of 1730
Seven: The Ardabil Earthquake of 1997
Six: The Damghan Earthquake of 856
Five: The Indian Ocean Earthquake of 2004
Four: The Aleppo Earthquake of 1138
Three: The Haiyuan Earthquake of 1920
Two: The Tangshan Earthquake of 1976
One: The Shaanzi Earthquake of 1556

3. 10: THE GREAT KANTO EARTHQUAKE OF 1923
Date: September 01, 1923
Location: the Kanto plain of Honshu, Japan
Magnitude: 8.3 on the Richter scale
Duration: 4-10 minutes (11:58 AM)
Death toll: 142,000 people
Resulting damage: 381,000 houses were burned; 694,000 houses were damaged

4. 9: THE ASHGABAT EARTHQUAKE OF 1948
Date: October 06, 1948
Location: Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Magnitude: 7.3 on the Richet scale
Duration: Unknown (2:17 am)
Death toll: 100,000 people
Resulting damage: Brick building collapsed; concrete structure were heavily damaged; freight trails were detailed

5. 8: THE HOKKAIDO EARTHQUAKE OF 1730
Date: December 30, 1730
Location: Hokkaido, Japan
Magnitude: 8.3 on the Richter scale
Duration: Unknown
Death toll: 137,000 people
Resulting damage: Landslides; power outages; road damage; a tsunami

6. 7: THE ARDABIL EARTH- QUAKE OF 1997
Date: February 28, 1997
Location: Ardabil, Iran
Magnitude: 6.1 on the Richter scale
Duration: 15 seconds (4:37 PM)
Death toll: 150,000 people
Resulting damage: Road and electrical power line damage; all electrical communication was impossible; water could not be distributed; hospitals overflowed with patients

7. 6: THE DAMGHAN EARTHQUAKE OF 856
Date: December 22, 856
Location: the Alborz mountain range (present-day Iran)
Magnitude: 8.0 on the Richter scale
Duration: Unknown
Death toll: 200,000 people
Resulting damage: The whole city, countryside, and mostly every near-by village within 200 miles of the epicenter were destroyed

8. 5: THE INDIAN OCEAN EARTHQUAKE OF 2004
Date: December 26, 2004 Location: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Maldives, and the eastern coast of Africa Magnitude: 9.1 – 9.3 on the Richter scale Duration: 8-10 minutes Death toll: 200,000 people Resulting damage: Tsunamis

9. 4: THE ALEPPO EARTHQUAKE OF 1138
Date: October 11, 1138
Location: Aleppo, Syria
Magnitude: 8.5 of the Richter scale
Duration: Unknown
Death toll: 230,000
Resulting damage: 600 guards in a citadel were killed, which was always destroyed; buildings and homes collapsed

10. 3: THE HAIYUAN EARTHQUAKE OF 1920
Date: December 16, 1920
Location: Haiyuan, China
Magnitude: 8.5 on the Richter scale
Duration: Unknown (12:06 PM)
Death toll: 235,502 people
Resulting damage: Collapsed houses, damaged rivers, landslides, severe cracks in the ground

11. 2: THE TANGSHAN EARTHWUAKE OF 1976
Date: July 28, 1976
Location: Tangshan, China
Magnitude: 7.8 on the Richter scale
Duration: 23 seconds (3:42 PM)
Death toll: 779,000 people
Resulting damage: No access to water, food, or electricity

12. 1: THE SHAANXI EARTHQUAKE OF 1556
Date: January 23, 1556
Location: a 520-mile-wide area in China
Magnitude: 8.0 on the Richter scale
Duration: Unknown
Death toll: 830,000 people
Resulting damage: Caves collapsed, mounts and rivers “changed places”; roads were destroyed

13. TOP 10 DEADLIEST VOLCANO ERUPTIONS
Ten: The Mount Galunggung Eruption of 1882
Nine: The Mount Kelut Eruption of 1919
Eight: The Mount Vesuvius Eruption of 1631
Seven: The Laki Volcanic System Eruption of 1783
Six: The Mount Vesuvius Eruption of 79 AD
Five: The Mount Unzen Eruption of 1792
Four: The Nevado del Ruiz Eruption of 1985
Three: The Mount Krakatoa Eruption of 1883
Two: The Mount Pelee Eruption of 1902
One: The Mount Tambora Eruption of 1816

14. 10: THE MOUNT GALUNGGUNG ERUPTION OF 1882
Date: October 1882
Location: West Java, Indonesia
Death toll: 4,011 people
Resulting damage: Unknown

15. 9: THE MOUNT KELUT ERUPTION OF 1919
Date: May 19, 1919
Location: East Java, Indonesia
Death toll: 5,110 people
Resulting damage: Mudslides

16. 8: THE MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTION OF 1631
Date: December 1631
Location: Gulf of Naples, Italy
Death toll: 6,000 people
Resulting damage: Many surrounding towns were destroyed by lava flows and randomly ejected boiling water from the volcano

17. 7: THE LAKI VOLCANIC SYSTEM OF ERUPTION OF 1783
Date: June 08, 1783
Location: southern Island
Death toll: 9,350 people
Resulting damage: Dusty volcanic haze that created massive food shortages (the main cause of death after the disaster)

18. 6: THE MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTION OF 79 AD
Date: April 24, 79 AD
Location: Gulf of Naples, Italy
Death toll: 10,000 + people
Resulting damage: the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were completely covered in volcanic ash and destroyed; temperature reached up to 750 °F; victims were found with the tops of their heads missing because their brains had boiled and exploded

19. 5: THE MOUNT UNZEN ERUPTION OF 1792
Date: 1972
Location: Kyushu, Japan
Death toll: 15,000-17,000 people
Resulting damage: an earthquake; a tsunami

20. 4: THE NEVADO DEL RUIZ ERUPTION OF 1985
Date: December 13, 1985
Location: Caldas and Tolima, Colombia
Death toll: 23,000 people
Resulting damage: a mudslide that buried the city of Amero

21. 3: THE MOUNT KRAKATOA ERUPTION OF 1883
Date: August 27, 1883
Location: The Sunda Strait of Indonesia
Death toll: 36,000 people
Resulting damage: 2/3 was destroyed; more than 6 cubic meters of debris went flying into the atmosphere

22. 2: THE MOUNT PELEE ERUPTION OF 1902
Date: May 08, 1902
Location: Lesser Antilles (in the Carribean)
Death toll: 40,000 people
Resulting damage: city of St. Pierre was completely destroyed

23. 1: THE MOUNT TAMBORA ERUPTION OF 1815
Date: April 10, 1815
Location: Sumbawa, Indonesia
Death toll: 92,000 people
Resulting damage: the year 1816 people known as the “year without summer” because volcanic ash in the atmosphere form the explosion lowered worldwide temperatures (it snowed in New England in June; 100,000 additional people died because of starvation due to crop failures in Northern Europe and North America