Showing posts with label africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label africa. Show all posts

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Volcanoes arranged by country and region.

Every volcano which has erupted in the past 10,000 years is listed, plus many ancient volcanoes
  Volcanoes arranged by country and region.
Afghanistan                  Ethiopia
Fiji
France
French Polynesia
Galapagos Islands
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Hawaii
Honduras
Iceland
India
Indian Ocean
Indonesia
Iran
Italy
Japan
Kamchatka
Kenya
Korea
Kurile Islands
Libya
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mali
Mariana Islands
Mexico
Mongolia
Myanmar
New Zealand
Nicaragua

Africa
Alaska
Algeria
Antarctica
Arctic Ocean
Argentina
Armenia
Asia
Atlantic Ocean
Australia
Azerbaijan
Azores
Bolivia
Burma
Cameroon
Canada
Canary Islands
Cape Verde
Caribbean
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo DR
Costa Rica
Djibouti
Dominica
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Pacific Ocean
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Red Sea
Reunion
Russia
Rwanda
Samoa
Sao Tome
Saudi Arabia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
South Sandwich Islands
Spain
Sudan
Syria
Taiwan
Tanzania
Tonga
Turkey
Uganda
United States
Vanuatu
Vietnam
Wallis and Futuna
Yemen

Friday, January 14, 2011

Worlds flooding tsunami history

Netherlands, 1287
The Zuider Zee flooded after a seawall callapsed. At least 50,000 people were killed in Holland and more than 500 in England as a result.
China, 1642
Flooding takes about 300,000 lives.
Indonesia, 1815
Mount Tambora (volcano) on Sumbawa Island released about 50 cubic kilometers of magma over at least 500,000 square kilometers of Indonesia and the Java Sea. That eruption and the resulting tsunami took at least 10,000 lives. But the famine and disease that followed took another 82,000 lives - total: over 90,000.
Japan, 1826
Tsunami kills about 27,000.


China, 1887
The worst flood in "modern history" happened in China in 1887. The Yellow River overflowed, causing the death of about 900,000 people. (Some reports say it was a million that parished.)

Japan, 1896
About 28,000 people lost their lives from a Tsunami

China, 1911
Yangtze River flood - approx: 100,000 deaths.


World-wide, 1918 - 19
Influenza pandemic takes somewhere between 35 million and 75 million lives (some reports estimate around a hundred million, but those can't be confirmed) - at least 16 million people died in India alone. This is clearly the worst disaster - at least in the last thousand years.

China, 1931
A flood on the Changjiang River took at least 145,000 people (other estimates go over a million, but we have not confirmed that).


China, 1935
Another Yellow River flood "caused 27 counties inundated and 3.4 million victims".  How many actual lives were killed we don't know. If you have facts, let us hear from you
China, 1933
Another Changjiang River flood takes the lives of at least 140,000 people.

China, 1939
A flood takes about 200,000 lives.
Bangladesh, 1970
In 1970, a cyclone and related floods killed about 500,000 people. With winds of up to 230 km/h, the cyclone crashed into the heavily populated coastal area of the Bay of Bengal, where several river deltas normally provide fertile land. The terrible winds produced massive waves, which wiped out many entire villages. Millions of people were left homeless in this country that is one of the most densely populated and one of the poorest in the world.

Africa, 1981 - 1984
Rivers and lakes dried up from the drought that had incredible impact on twenty African nations. During one season about 20,000 were starving to death EACH MONTH.  150 million were facing starvation if help didn't come right away. People from around the world began to respond to this crisis - but for hundreds of thousands of people, it was too late. (If you have figures for this, please let us know. When combined with other relatively recent African famines, the fugure is well over 1,000,000)

Bangladesh, 1991
Flooding again took its toll on this nation. About  139,000 lost their lives.
North Korea, 1995-98
Over 3 million are said to have died from famine and floods in North Korea.

South Asian Nations, 2004 - 2005

Earthquake of 9.0 and the resulting tsunami creates one of the world's worst disasters.  It does major damage to: Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Maldives, Somalia, Tanzania, Seychelles, Bangladesh, and Andaman.  Deaths: Between 235,000 and 285,000.