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Disasters - Hurricanes - Earthquakes - Volcanoes This page combines Hurricanes, Earthquakes and Volcanoes, click above for a specific TimeLine.
Last updated September, 2005.
Ancient Events - 1700s - 1800s - 1900s - This Century - 2005
33,000 BC	Pinatubo volcano	Scientists say the largest eruption of Pinatubo in the Philippines was 35000 years ago.
1800s BC	Mount Etna volcano	The first record of an eruption of Mount Etna was in the 18th century BC.
900.BC +150	Arenal volcano	Arenal volcano erupts within 150 years of 900 BC.
79 AD	Mt. Vesuvius volcano	Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupted in 79 AD burying the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii. It was the first eruption that was recorded. Plinius the Older one had observed the eruption and wrote down all the aspects in detail.
226 BC	Greece quake	An earthquake in the area of Rhodes, Greece destroys the city of Kameiros and the Colossus of Rhodes.
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365 AD	Greece quake	An earthquake in the area of Knossos, Crete kills 50,000.
220.AD +75	Arenal volcano	Arenal volcano erupts within 75 years of 220.
260 AD	Ilopango Cald. volcano	The Ilopango Caldera is east of San Salvador in El Salvador. The last real activity was around 260 AD. No present activity is evident other than the local fishermen occasionally finding large numbers of fish dying, accompanied by a sulfur smell.
365 AD	Libya quake	An earthquake occurs in Cyrene, Libya.
526 AD	Syria quake	On May 20th an earthquake at Antiochia, Syria kills 250,000 people.
844 AD	Syria quake	Damascus, Syria is shaken by a quake that kills 50,000 people.
847 AD	Iraq quake	50,000 die in an earthquake that rocks Mosul, Iraq.
847 AD	Syria quake	The death toll in a quake that shakes Damascus, Syria is 70,000.
856 AD	Iran quake	An earthquake in 856 AD occurred in Qumis, Damghan, Iran killing 200,000 people.
856 AD	Greece quake	45,000 are killed in Corinth, Greece by an earthquake.
893 AD	Caucasus quake	82,000 people die when a quake shakes Caucasus.
893 AD	India quake	Daipur, India is rocked by a quake that kills 180,000 people.
893 AD	Iran quake	An earthquake in Ardabil, Iran kills 150,000 people
1006 AD	Mount Merapi volcano	Mount Merapi in Indonesia erupted with destruction so bad the governing Hindu kingdom was destroyed allowing the Muslim take-over of the island.
1042 AD	Syria quake	In Palmyra, Baalbek, Syria a quake kills 50,000 people.
1080.+50	Arenal volcano	Arenal volcano erupts approximately in the late 1000s.
1169 AD	Mount Etna volcano	Mount Etna erupts killing 15,000 people in one of the most disastrous eruptions.
1138 AD	Syria quake	230,000 are killed in a quake that rumbles Ganzah, Aleppo, Syria.
1201 AD	Syria quake	In upper Egypt or Syria an earthquake killed one-million-one-hundred-thousand people.
1268 AD	Turkey quake	60,000 are killed by an earthquake in Cilicia, Anatolia (Turkey).
1290 AD	China quake	100,000 are killed in a 6.7 September 27th earthquake in Chihli, China.
1495 AD	Columbus hurricane	Christopher Columbus records the first report of a hurricane having encountered a tropical storm on one voyage to the New World. Columbus later states, "nothing but the service of God and the extension of the monarchy" would force his exposure to such danger.
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1525.+20	Arenal volcano	Arenal volcano erupts approximately in 1525
1556	China quake	Estimated at a magnitude 8 an earthquake kills 830,00 in Shensi, China on January 23rd.
1559	Spanish hurricane	73 ships destroyed out of a Spanish fleet of 74, that were to recapture Florida, when they sailed into a hurricane. The one remaining ship founded a colony near Pensacola, Florida.
1565	French hurricane	The bid to control the Atlantic coast of North America is lost by the French when their fleet is destroyed by a storm. Without the added French support the Spanish capture Fort Carolina, near today's Jacksonville, Florida.
1609	Bermuda hurricane	The 'Sea Venture' while in route to Virginia with supplies for the starving Jamestown colonists becomes damaged by a hurricane. Most of the 150 aboard; men, women and children found safety in the Bermuda Islands.
1635	Great Colonial Hurricane	The eye of the Great Colonial Hurricane passes between Boston and Plymouth, Massachusetts causing a 20-foot tide in Boston. a report that thousands of trees and many houses were blown down was given by Governor William Bradford.
1668	Turkey quake	In Anatolia Turkey a magnitude 8 quake hits Anatolia Turkey on August 17th, killing 8000.
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1700s
1700	CA OR WA B.C. quake tsunami	What is called the Cascadia Earthquake occurs on January 26 with a magnitude of 9. No written records were kept by the inhabitants but Japanese records show a tsunami that could only be explained by considering the Cascadia Earthquake. Native American legends place the quake from northern California to Vancouver Island.
1738	Cotopaxi volcano	Cotopaxi near Quito in central Ecuador among the Andes Mountains has erupted 50 or so times since 1738.
1743	hurricane study	A lunar eclipse studied by Benjamin Franklin in September was foiled by a nearby hurricane. With his curiosity aroused he collected more details learning the storm moved up the seaboard against the surface winds. Science takes the first step to understanding the basics of hurricanes.
1744	Cotopaxi volcano	Cotopaxi in central Ecuador among the Andes Mountains erupted in 1744 with an explosion so loud it was heard over 500 miles away in Honda, Colombia.
1749	Virginia hurricane	Fort George in Virginia, where Fort Monroe is now, was destroyed by a hurricane in 1749. One record, "A sand spit of 800 acres was washed up," explains the creation of the Willoughby Spit in Norfolk.
1750.+50	Arenal volcano	Arenal volcano erupts in the 1700s
1752	Charleston hurricane	A hurricane's 17-foot storm surge destroys 500 homes and the fortifications in Charleston, South Carolina in 1752.
1755	Portugal.Morocco tsunami	A tsunami is triggered by an 8.5 quake to slam Portugal and Morocco killing 60,000 people.
1755	Portugal quake	70,000 are killed by a November 1st, 8.7 earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal.
1766	Hekla volcano	The most disastrous eruption of Hekla volcano in Iceland was in 1766. Its cone is surmounted by a cap of ice and it is the most active of the Icelandic volcanoes.
1776
1776	Hurricane of Independence	The "Hurricane of Independence" ravages the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Nova Scotia from September 2nd to the 9th. Over 4100 Americans and Canadians are thought have been killed.
1776	Martinique hurricane	More than 6000 are killed in a 1776 storm that hits Martinique.
1780
1780	Iran quake	On February 28th an earthquake kills 200,000 in Iran.
1780	Great Hurricane of 1780	The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills an estimated 22,000 destroying the British and French fleets in the Caribbean. This hurricane holds the record as the deadliest storm in recorded history.
1786
1786	Mount Shasta volcano	Mount Shasta in California is now dormant with its last eruption occurring in 1786.
1786	Mount Merapi volcano	Mount Merapi in Indonesia erupted with one of its largest in 1786. It is located in central Java, 45 miles north of Yogyakarta.
1797
1797	Halekala volcano	Halekala forms the eastern part of the island of Maui in the Hawaian Islands. Prior to going dormant its last eruption is said to have been around 1797.
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1800s
1805
1805	Mount Hood volcano	Mount Hood east of Portland in Oregon is a dormant volcano and the forth highest peak in the Cascade Range. Its last eruption was a little before Louis and Clark arrived in the area on their expedition in 1805.
1811
1811	Missouri quake	The New Madrid Earthquake is an 8.1 On December 16th followed by other quakes between January 23rd and February 7th 1812. New lakes were formed as large areas of land sank. The Mississippi River changed it course due to the quakes. Although minimal the damage would have been greater today with the substantially larger population and development.
1812
1812	Missouri quake	7.8 again his the New Madrid Fault on January 23rd.
1812	Missouri quake	A magnitude 8 quake hits the New Madrid Fault on February 7th.
1815
1815	Great Sep. Gale hurricane	"The Great September Gale" makes landfall on Long Island, New York and then again in Connecticut. Providence Rhode Island is flooded extensive damage throughout New England is left behind.
1819
1819	hurricane study	A Harvard professor published an article in 1819 concluding that a hurricane "appears to have been a moving vortex and not the rushing forward of a great body of the atmosphere."
1822
1822	Mount Merapi volcano	Mount Merapi in Indonesia erupted with one of its largest in 1822. It has small eruptions every 2-3 years with larger every 10-15 years and the most devastating eruptions every 50 to 60 years.
1823
1823	Hawaii quake	A 6.8 earthquake hits south of Kilauea Island , Hawaii on June 2nd.
1836
1836	California quake	The San Francisco Bay region is hit on June 10th by a 6.5 quake.
1838
1838	California quake	In June San Francisco Peninsula is hit by a 6.8 quake.
1841
1841	Mount Erebus volcano	Mount Erebus is active and situated on the easter coast of Ross Island on Antartica. Mt. Erebus was discovered by explorer James Ross in 1841 and was named after one of his ships.
1843
1843	Arkansas quake	The Marked Tree quake in Arkansas on January 5th was 7.9, on the not yet invented Richter scale.
1846
1846	Racer's Storm hurricane	Racer's Storm was named for the British sloop of war that encountered it in the Caribbean. Being one of the most destructive storms of the 19th century it leaves a path of destruction 2,000 miles wide. Forming near Jamaica it crosses the Yucatan then strikes the Gulf coast of Texas then skimming along Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina to arrive off the North Carolina coast on October 9th.
1848
1848	Fort Brooke hurricane	Two hurricanes within the same month in 1848 nearly destroy Fort Brooke located at today's Tampa, Florida. One of the storms pushed a tide of 15 feet through the town.
1851
1851	Ricon Vieja volcano	In Coasta Rica the Rincon de la Vieja volcano has erupted 16 times or more since 1851 with the latest in November 1995 and February 1998..
1856
1856	Last Island hurricane	Last Island in Louisiana is hit by a category 4 hurricane killing 400 people.
1857
1857	California quake	On January 9th A 7.9 Quake runs along the San Andreas fault from Parkfield to Wrightwood.
1857	Italy quake	In Naples 11,000 are killed by a 6.9 quake on December 16th.
1865
1865	California quake	At 6:46 PM on October 8th a 6.5 quake hits San Jose, California.
1868
1868	Hawaii	77 are killed on April 3rd in a 7.9 quake at Hilea in southeast Hawaii.
1868	California	In a 6.8 quake 30 die in Hayward, California on October 21st.
1871
1871	Hawaii quake	Molokai, Hawaii experiences a 6.8 earthquake on February 20th.
1872
1872	Mount Merapi volcano	Mount Merapi in Indonesia erupted with one of its largest in 1872. The volcanic ash has made the soil rich attracting farmers to live nearby.
1872	California quake	The Lone Pine Quake in Owens Valley, California is 7.6 killing 27 people on March 26th.
1872	Washington quake	A 7.3 quake occurs in the North Cascades in Washington territory on December 15th.
1873
1873	California / Oregon quake	On November 23rd off the coast of California and Oregon an earthquake is estimated to be 7.3.
1873	hurricane tracking	The first hurricane warning in the U.S. is issued by the U.S. Army Signal Corps. A hurricane approaching the coast was expected to come ashore between Cape May, New Jersey and New London, Connecticut, but never made landfall.
1877
1877	Cotopaxi volcano	Cotopaxi near Quito in central Ecuador erupted in 1877 melting snow and ice producing mudflows that traveled 60 miles.
1878
1878	Florida 3 day hurricane	The Florida Keys was hit by a slow-traveling hurricane that for three days crept up the center of the state.
1881
1881	South Carolina hurricane	An 1881 hurricane ends up in South Carolina after first making landfall, causing destruction, at Savannah and Augusta, Georgia and submerging several barrier islands by the storm surge in South Carolina.
1883
1883	Krakatau volcano	Thousands of people are killed in 1883 and most of the island destroyed by the eruption of Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra.
1886
1886	S. Carolina quake	A 7.3 quake kill 60 on August 31st in Charleston, South Carolina.
1886	Mt.Tarawera volcano	Mount Tarawera, a volcano near Rotorua on the North Island of New Zealand Erupts on June 10th killing at least 153 people.
1886	Indianola hurricane	Alexandria, Louisiana has 21.4 inches of rain dumped from a June category 4 hurricane. The coast of Louisiana is flooded and after moving into Texas the city of Indianola was destroyed, never to be rebuilt.
1890
1890	California quake	On April 24th at 11:36 an earthquake hitting Corralitos, California is estimated at 6.3.
1891
1891	Japan quake	Mino-Owari in Japan is shaken on October 27th by an 8 eathquake that kills 7,273
1892
1892	California quake	A 6.4 quake kill one person on April 19th in Vacaville, California.
1892	California quake	Winters, California feels a 6.4 quake on April 21st.
1893
1893	August hurricane	A Storm that hits Georgia and South Carolina submerging the barrier islands on August 28th kills between 1000 and 2000 people.
1893	October hurricane	An October hurricane floods the Louisiana bayou, killing 2000 people.
1895
1895	Missouri quake	A 6.6 quake on October 31st dances the nerves in Charleston, Missouri.
1896
1896	Japan quake	On June 15th an 8.5 quake hits Sanriku, Japan.
1897
1897	India quake	1,500 people are killed by an 8.3 quake in Assam, India on June 12th.
1897	California quake	The Calaveras fault in California is shaken on June 20th by a 6.3 earthquake.
1898
1898	California quake	Mare Island, California is hit by a 6.3 quake on March 31st.
1898	California	A 6.8 quake shakes up Mendocino County, California early on April 15th.
1899
1899	Alaska quake quake	A 7.9 quake on September 4th roughs up Cape Yakataga, Alaska.
1899	Alaska quake	Yakutat Bay, Alaska is hit on September 10th by an earthquake of a magnitude 8.
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1900s
1900
1900	Alaska quake	Kodiak Island, Alaska feels a 7.7 quake on October 9th.
1900	The 1900 hurricane	The 1900 hurricane is the nation's most fatal natural disaster with some 8000 to 12000 dead. The storm hits with little warning on September 8th causing storm tides of 8 to 15 feet flooding Galveston Island and areas along the Texas coast.
1901
1901	California quake	Parkfield, California is hit by a 6.4 earthquake on March 3rd.
1901	Mount Pelée volcano	Mount Pelée eruption of 1901 in Martinique was the most deadly eruption killing 29,000 people.
1904
1904	Alaska quake	A 7.3 quake shakes Fairbanks, Alaska on August 27th.
1904	Cotopaxi volcano	Cotopaxi in central Ecuador ends its last eruption in 1904.
1905
1905	China quake	On July 9th Mongolia, China is hit by an 8.4 earthquake.
1906
1906	Colombia-Ecuador quake	Both countries of Colombia and Ecuador experience an 8.8 earthquake on January 31st that kills 1000 people.
1906	California quake	3000 people are killed in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 that ran along the San Andreas fault from San Juan Bautista to Cape Mendocino on April 18th.
1906	Chile quake	On August 17th Valparaiso, Chile looses 20,000 lives to an 8.2 quake.
1908
1908	Italy quake	70.000 lose their lives by a 7.2 earthquake on December 28th in Messina, Italy.
1909
1909	Grand Isle Hurricane	A category 4 hurricane lasting 9 days from September 10th to the 21st hitting Grande Isle and the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi killing 350 people.
1911
1911	California quake	A 6.5 earthquake occurs on the Calaveras fault in California on July 1st.
1914
1914	Lassen Peak volcano	Lassen Peak is currently considered dormant, its last activity was from 1914 to 1917 when it has around 150 explosions.
1914	free season hurricane	The 1914 season gets a pass with only one tropical storm and no hurricanes.
1915
1915	Nevada quake	Pleasant Valley, Nevada is rocked on October 3rd by a 7.1 quake.
1915	Louisiana-Texas hurricane	An August 5th to the 23rd rampaging category 4 hurricane hits New Orleans, Louisiana and Galveston, Texas, killing 275 people.
1917
1917	San Salvador volcano	San Salvador volcano is west of the capital of El Salvador, San Salvador. Now dormant its last eruption was in June 1917 and destroyed a lard part of the city by the accompanying earthquakes.
1918
1918	Puerto Rico quake	The Island nation Puerto Rico is shaken by a 7.5 earthquake on October 11th.
1918	B. Columbia quake	Vancouver Island in Canada's British Columbia rocks on December 6th with a 7.0 earthquake.
1919
1919	Corpus Christi hurricane	Corpus Christi, Texas is hit by a 12 foot storm surge on September by a category 4 hurricane that had already hit Cuba and the Florida Keys. An estimated 600 to 900 people were killed.
1920
1920	China quake	The population of Ningxia-Kansu, in China is shook up on December 16 with a death toll of 200,000.
1922
1922	California quake	A 7.3 quake shakes the ocean floor off Cape Mendocino, California on January 31st.
1922	California quake	Parkfield, California feels the rumbling of a 6.1 quake on March 10th.
1923
1923	California quake	A 7.2 earthquake shakes the ocean floor off Cape Mendocino again nearly one year after the last quake in the same area in California on January 22nd.
1923	Japan quake	September 1st rolls a 7.9 quake on Kanto, Japan killing 143,000 people.
1925
1925	Quebec quake	Charlevoix, Quebec in Canada is hit by a 6.3 March 1st quake.
1925	Montana quake	Clarkston Valley, Montana is rocked with a 6.6 earthquake on June 28th
1925	California quake	A 6.8 earthquake kills 13 rolling through Santa Barbara, California on June 29th.
1926
1926	California quake	Monterey Bay, California is shaken by a 6.1 earthquake on October 22nd at 12:35 in the afternoon.
1926	California quake	Monterey Bay, California is again shaken by a 6.1 earthquake on October 22nd one hour at 1:35 in the afternoon.
1926	Florida-Alabama hurricane	243 are dead in a hurricane that strikes southeast Florida and Alabama in its duration from September 11th to the 22nd.
1927
1927	Japan quake	3,020 people are killed by a 7.6 quake in Tango, Japan on March 7th.
1927	China quake	A May 22nd, 7.1 quake shakes Tsinghai, China killing 200,000 people.
1927	California quake	An offshore earthquake rocks Lompoc, California with a 7.1 reading on November 4th.
1928
1928	San Felipe hurricane	The San Felipe hurricane is the second deadliest in the United States with 1,836 dead in Florida. In the Caribbean 1,167 die then with a direct hit on Puerto Rico, on September 13th, 312 people perish. The storm makes landfall close to Palm Beach Florida on the 16th of September moving inland to Lake Okeechobee causing a lake surge nearly 9 feet that floods surrounding areas.
1929
1929	Nova Scotia quake	Grand Banks, Nova Scotia in Canada is shaken by a 7.3 earthquake on November 29th.
1930
1930	Mount Merapi volcano	Mount Merapi in Indonesia erupted with one of its largest in 1930. With its frequent eruptions many farmers rebuild starting new after each destruction.
1930	Santo Domingo hurricane	Thousand are left dead by a hurricane that ravages the Dominican Republic and leaves the capital, Santo Domingo, near total destruction.
1932
1932	Nevada quake	Cedar Mountain in Nevada is rocked by a 7.2 quake on December 21st.
1933
1933	Japan quake	2,990 people die on March 2nd in an 8.4 earthquake at Sanriku, Japan.
1933	California quake	A 6.4 quake kill 115 people on March 11th in Long Beach, California.
1933	Canada quake	Baffin Bay off the shores of Northeastern Canada is hit by an earthquake on January 15th judged as 7.4 in intensity.
1933	busy season hurricanes	Eastern Virginia is swamped by a hurricane in August in the busiest season of record, listing 21 hurricanes and tropical storms.
1934
1934	India quake	10,700 people die in the 7.4 January 15th quake in Bihar, India.
1934	California quake	A 6.1 quake on June 8th rocks Parkfield, California.
1935
1935	Quebec quake	Timiskaming, Quebec in Canada is rocked on November 1st by a 6.2 earthquake.
1935	Labor Day hurricane	The Labor Day hurricane strikes the Florida Keys on September 2nd then heads north. WWI veterans working in the area are the primary victim of the 408 killed in the category 5; the most intense hurricane to strike the U.S.
1937
1937	Alaska quake	Salcha, Alaska is shaken by a 7.3 earthquake on July 22nd.
1938
1938	Hawaii quake	Maui, Hawaii is hit with a 6.8 earthquake on January 22nd.
1938	Alaska quake	Shumagin Islands in Alaska is shaken by an 8.2 quake on November 10th.
1938	Long Is. Express hurricane	A hurricane called the "Long Island Express", with little warning, slams Long I