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What are the top ten natural disasters in America?
Ten Natural Disasters in the 20th Century

North American Black Storm 1934 In the early morning of May 1 1, an unprecedented black storm occurred in the grassland area of the western United States. The gale blew for three days and nights, forming a huge black storm belt with a length of 2400 kilometers from east to west, a width of 1440 kilometers from north to south and a height of 3400 meters. Where the storm passed, streams were cut off, wells dried up, fields cracked, crops withered, livestock died of thirst, and thousands of people were displaced.

Peru avalanche1970 May 3 1 20: 30, lanshan district, Vasca, Peru. At that time, many people around were already asleep. Suddenly, there was a thunderous sound in the distance. Then the earth is like a ship in the waves, suddenly out of control and shaking wildly ... this is the biggest and most tragic avalanche disaster in the world so far.

Extraordinary flood in Bangladesh1987 In July, Bangladesh experienced the biggest flood in history. In just two months, 47 of 64 counties in Bangladesh were hit by floods and heavy rains. The United Nations has launched two food supply plans, and it will cost 20 million dollars a year to implement only one plan.

Indian plague epidemic1September 1994-10, India suffered a deadly plague, and 300,000 surat citizens fled to all directions in India, bringing the plague to all parts of the country at the same time. Fear has even spread to all parts of the world ... why is the plague that has disappeared for many years popular in India? Experts agree that the outbreak of plague is caused by extremely dirty environment. It is said that surat is the dirtiest city in India, with piles of garbage and stinking. During the plague epidemic, the city cleaned up as much as 1400 tons of garbage every day.

1August 2, 9861Sunday night, a loud noise pierced the sky. The next morning, on the beautiful hillside of Cameroon Plateau, the crystal blue Nios River suddenly turned red. In the village near Nios Lake, houses, churches and barns are all intact, but no one walks in the street, and all the houses are dead! Later, the experts finally found the "murderer"-the toxic gas that suddenly exploded at the bottom of Cameroon Lake.

Severe Smog in London1952 65438+On February 4th, London, England, was foggy for nearly a week, and a large amount of smoke and gas emitted by factories and families piled up at low altitude, and the whole city was shrouded in dense fog and fell into a gloomy state. During this period, more than 4700 people died of respiratory diseases; After the fog dispersed, more than 8,000 people died, and the "fog disaster" shocked the world.

The mysterious disaster in Bermuda is said to have started at 1945, and hundreds of planes and ships have mysteriously disappeared in this part of Bermuda. Disappearing seems to be done in an instant, just like a hole in the sky, where the plane falls into the hole and becomes silent, or the sea suddenly opens its mouth and devours the ship ... Bermuda, a black hole, has not yet bottomed out.

The Tunguska Big Bang1In the early morning of June 30th, 908, a rare disaster befell the remote forest area of Siberia. Semenoff, who narrowly escaped this disaster, recalled: "At that time, there was a fire in the sky, and in an instant, a huge fireball almost covered half the sky. After a loud noise, the wind came ... "The destructive power of the shock wave produced by the explosion is equivalent to the power of 500 atomic bombs and several hydrogen bombs. It has spread to seismic stations in Central Europe, Potsdam, Germany, Cambridge, England, and even Washington and Java.

Tsunami in Chile It is said that Chile is the "last piece of mud" after God created the world. Perhaps it is for this reason that the crust here is always not so calm. 1960 In May, bad luck once again enveloped this troubled country, and the earth turned over like a giant. The ocean is rolling violently; The canyon is howling in pain; Coastal rocks are cracking, and gravel is piled up on the beach ... This earthquake is the highest and strongest in the world. The magnitude is as high as 8.9, the intensity is 1 1 degree, and the influence range is within an 800-kilometer-long elliptical area. After the earthquake, a tsunami was triggered. Tsunami waves swept across the Pacific coast at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour, destroying cities such as Concepció n, Tal Cabano and Chilian in Chile, leaving more than 2 million people homeless.

Tangshan Earthquake1At 3: 42 on July 28th, 976, a major earthquake with energy 400 times stronger than the atomic bomb explosion occurred in Hiroshima, Japan. Tangshan City, Hebei Province was in ruins in an instant, and it was silent. More than 0.2 million/200 thousand people fell under the rubble ... the 40-degree north latitude line is called the "ominous terrorist line" There have been countless major earthquakes here, such as San Francisco, Lisbon, Portugal and Japan.