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1) "The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku, often referred to in Japan as Higashi nihon daishinsai and also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the 3.11 Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.03 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 30 km (19 mi)." -- (1)
2) There have been no less than 12 Pacific hurricanes since 1959 that have killed at least 100 people.
3) Mt Pacaya in Guatemala has had 2 serious eruptions since 1998.
4) ?à N?ng, Vietnam has been hit by 2 major Typhoons since 2006
5) Malibu, California has experienced dozens of wildfires and a tornado since 1929.
6) "The San Salvador area has been hit by earthquakes in 1576, 1659, 1798, 1839, 1854, 1873, 1880, 1917, 1919, 1965, 1986, 2001 and 2005. The 5.7 Mw-earthquake of 1986 resulted in 1,500 deaths, 10,000 injuries, and 100,000 people left homeless." -- (6)
7) "The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, a volcano located in Washington, in the United States, was a major volcanic eruption. The eruption (which was a VEI 5 event) was the only significant one to occur in the contiguous 48 US states since the 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California." -- (7)
8) "On February 27, 2010 an 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing 497. One of the largest earthquakes in recorded history, this rare megathrust earthquake probably shifts Earth's axis and slightly shortens its days. Another earthquake, of magnitude 6.9, occurred on 11 March of the same year, minutes before President Sebastián Pi?era was sworn in; it was centred in Pichilemu, Cardenal Caro Province." -- (8)
9) "The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake or Jiajing earthquake was a catastrophic earthquake and is also the deadliest earthquake on record, killing approximately 830,000 people. It occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, during the Ming Dynasty. More than 97 counties in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected. An 840-kilometre-wide (520 mi) area was destroyed, and in some counties 60% of the population was killed. Most of the population in the area at the time lived in yaodongs, artificial caves in loess cliffs, many of which collapsed with catastrophic loss of life." -- (9)
10) "The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 pm local time. Caused by a slip along the San Andreas Fault, the quake lasted 10–15 seconds and measured 6.9 on both the moment magnitude scale (surface-wave magnitude 7.1) and on the open-ended Richter Scale.[1] The quake killed 63 people throughout northern California, injured 3,757[3] and left some 3,000–12,000 people homeless." -- (10)
11) "The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. Devastating fires broke out in the city and lasted for several days. As a result of the quake and fires, about 3,000 people died and over 80% of San Francisco was destroyed." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Fr...
12) "The Tangshan Earthquake, also known as the Great Tangshan Earthquake, was a natural disaster that occurred on Wednesday, July 28, 1976." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tangsh...
13) "An earthquake which struck the Kantō plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 11:58 on the morning of September 1, 1923. Varied accounts hold that the duration of the earthquake was between 4 and 10 minutes. The quake had an epicenter deep beneath Izu ōshima Island in Sagami Bay. It devastated Tokyo, the port city of Yokohama, surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, and Shizuoka, and caused widespread damage throughout the Kantō region." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ear...
Map of earthquakes (1963-1998) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quake_...
What is your time period, we all know that natural disasters stopped occuring about 1980 when it was discovered that man was the cause of bad weather.
The earthquake and tsunami of 2004.
And all of the other earthquakes and tsunamis.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcano eruptions and monsoons.
Krakatoa went off quite well.
hurricane iniki in hawaii
What natural disasters happened in the pacific (not N.Z).
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