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July 2004 Disasters
June, July, and Aug., South Asia: The worst monsoon flooding in fifteen years in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh left up to 5 million homeless, killed more than 1800 people with at least 600 in…November 2005 Disasters
Nov. 6, Knight Township, Ind.: A fast moving line of thunderstorms spawned a tornado in southwestern Indiana and northern Kentucky that destroyed 130 mobile homes and killed 23 people.Nov. 9…2008 Year in Review - Science News
Top events for the nation and the world Science 2008 Science Milestones, 2008 New Lab on ISS • Polar Bears Listed as a Threatened Species • Reducing Greenhouse…October 2001 Disasters
Oct. 4, Black Sea, off the coast of Russia: Siberian Airlines jet en route from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk in Siberia exploded and plunged into the Black Sea. All 76 aboard, including…May 2002 Disasters
May, southern India: Brutal heat wave, particularly in Andhra Pradesh State, left more than 600 dead nationwide.May 2–5, southern W. Va. and southwest Va.: Storm system moving through…June 2002 Disasters
June–early July, mainly western U.S.: Several major wildfires burned throughout the West and Southwest, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes. The Hayman fire in the Pike…August 2003 Disasters
Aug. 1, Mozdok, Russia: Chechen separatists are blamed for an explosion at a military hospital in Mozdok which killed 35 and injured dozens.Aug. 5, Jakarta, Indonesia: A car bomb blasted the…October 2004 Disasters
Oct. 6, Taba, Egypt: Three car bombs targeting Israeli tourists exploded at Egyptian resort areas on the Sinai peninsula. The largest explosion at the Hilton Taba hotel killed at least 34.…July 2006 Disasters
July 9, Siberia, Russia: a Russian airline S7 Airbus A-310 slid off the end of the runway just after landing in Irkutsk, killing at least 122 people. Initial accounts indicate there may have…Tsunami FAQs From the International Tsunami Information Center
What is a tsunami? The phenomenon we call tsunami is a series of large waves of extremely long wavelength and period usually generated by a violent, impulsive undersea disturbance or activity…Trending
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