World natural disasters of 2019
*Photos are illustrative and not representative of the actual event from 2019
January 26 – Dam burst in Brazil, killing 34 people
January 27 – Tornado in Cuba killed 3 people and injured 172
February 24 – Record flooding in Tennessee
February 28 – Record flooding in California
March 3 – More than 12 tornadoes in Alabama and Georgia, killing 23 people
March 13 - “Bomb cyclone” brought blizzard conditions and hurricane-strength winds to mid-Western US
March 15 – Tropical cyclone killed 700 people in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Malawi
April 7 – Flooding in Iran killed 70 people
April 10 – Second bomb cyclone brought blizzard conditions and hurricane-strength winds to most of US
April 22 – Magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Phillipines killed 8 people
April 29 – Tropical cyclone killed 38 people in Mozambique
May 3 – Tropical cyclone killed 12 people in India
June 5 – Severe flooding caused a landslide in Uganda which killed 5 people
June 17 – Two earthquakes in China killed 11 people
June 26 – Major heatwave in Europe, temperatures 110+ degrees Fahrenheit
July 2 – Heavy rainfall caused a dam burst in India killing 11 people
July 3 – Heavy rainfall [more than 13 inches in 24 hours] in Japan caused a million people to be evacuated
July 4 – Magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Southern California [I felt this one!]
July 5 – Magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Southern California [I felt this one too!]
July 15 – Heavy rainfall caused landslides in India and Nepal, killing 88 people
July 19 – Heat waves across the US caused power outages in Wisconsin and New York
July 23 – Heavy storm caused 2 deaths in Virginia
July 24 – Wildfire in Idaho grew to 90,000 acres
July 27 – Magnitude 5.9 and 4.5 earthquakes in Phillipines killed 8 people
August 10 – Typhoon in China killed 13 people
August 10 – Continuing flooding in India killed 95 people
August 17 – A fire swept through a Bangladesh slum and destroyed 15,000 homes
August 21 – Fires destroyed as much as 20% of the the Amazon rainforest
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| This one actually IS from August 2019 |
September 4 – Hurricane Dorian killed more than 56 people in the Bahamas, North Carolina, and other Eastern states
September 13 – Severe weather in Spain killed 3 people
September 25 - Magnitude 5.5 earthquake in Pakistan killed 38 people
October 11 – Several wildfires in California killed 1 person and caused the evacuation of 100,000 people
October 19 – Heavy rains caused a dam to collapse in Siberia, killing 15 people
October 23 – Flash flooding in Spain and Italy caused the deaths of multiple people
October 26 – California fires caused the deaths of 2 people, power was cut off for one million people
October 30 – A landslide in Cameroon killed 42 people
November 8 – Magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Iran killed 5 people
November 9 – Wildfires in Australia killed 3 people
November 18 – Flooding in Italy and France caused a bridge collapse and killed 1 person
November 26 – Bomb cyclone brought blizzard conditions and hurricane-strength winds to Western US
December 3 – The bomb cyclone moved across the US and caused severe snow and blizzard conditions in Eastern US
December 15 - Magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Phillipines [yes this just happened yesterday]
And those wildfires are still burning in Australia. I think we're up to about 5 million acres in total now (that's bigger than the state of Connecticut).
ReplyDeleteYikes! And what's up with the tweets that say "It's now too late to leave. Take shelter as the fire approaches." What do they expect you to do? Hopefully not just go hide in the closet!
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