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The biggest disaster of the 20-th century
Posted by Troy on January 15, 2010
Atlantic storm, Nov. 4, 1998 killed more than 11 thousand people in Central America is one of the largest natural disasters (typhoons, floods, cyclones, avalanches) of XX century
- Cyclone, September 29, 1971 in India, when were fallen more than 10 thousand people;
- Hurricane-killer in San Domingo, September 3, 1930 brought 8 thousands of flood victims and to the extinct volcano Guaskaran, which is buried beneath them 3 thousand Peruvians;
- Mud flows from the mountains and floods in Venezuela, 10 January 1962 – biggest disaster in its history killed more than 30 thousand lives, was caused by rain;
31 major earthquake happened in the XX century.
Among them, the earthquake (Jan. 24, 1939) in Chile and in India (16 August 1950 ), which claimed 30 thousand lives. 14 thousand victims – the sad result of the earthquake in Turkey, 2003, August 17, 2400 people died in Taiwan on September 21 last year.
Forty major fires and explosions occurred in the 20 century.
- A powerful fire on Nov. 28, 1942 in a night club “Coconut Grove”, when 490 people were burned;
- Explosion on Nov. 9, 1963 in the mine Disorder (Japan), which claimed 447 lives;
- Explosion of two trains due to gas leakage June 3, 1983 in Bashkortostan, which killed 583 and wounded more than 700 passengers.
56 major crashes, including:
- The fall of the Turkish DC-10 shortly after takeoff in the Paris airport, which led to the death of all 346 passengers and crew;
- An explosion of Indian Boeing 4 over the Atlantic with 329 victims;
- The biggest disaster Canaria on March 27, 1977, which killed 582 passengers in a collision of two Boeing,
- Mysterious crash of an Egyptian airliner off the coast of the United States, which targeted 217 people.
44 worst shipwrecks, including:
- Loss of commercial ferries in Japan September 26, 1954, when sunk more than 1000 people;
- The collision of the passenger ferry Dona Pass “with an oil tanker near the coast of Manila on Dec. 20, 1967 caused the death of more than 4000 passengers;
- The collapse of “Lusitania”, shot down a German submarine May 6, 1915, killing nearly 1200 people
- And, finally, the most tragic event of the American Navy – the bombing of the Japanese aircraft warship “Arizona” at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 1, 1941. The number of victims amounted to 1177 people.
