# Natural Disasters

> A chronological documentary of 873 moments spanning 6100 BC–2026.
> Source: https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters · Loreline (loreline.live)

A global archive of the Earth at its most violent — every kind of natural disaster and freak-weather event, from ancient eruptions to last week's storms. Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, volcanoes, landslides, droughts, blizzards, freak lightning, dust storms, locust plagues, coral bleaching and more, documented from all over the world in real footage and photographs, in true chronological order.

_last updated 2026-07-16._

## Eras

- **Earthquakes** — The ground itself giving way — the great quakes that levelled cities and reshaped coastlines, from Lisbon 1755 to the megathrusts of the modern age.
- **Tsunamis** — Walls of water thrown across whole oceans by quakes and landslides — the 2004 Indian Ocean and 2011 Tōhoku catastrophes and the tsunamis of history.
- **Hurricanes & Cyclones** — The great tropical cyclones — hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones — that drowned coasts and flattened cities across every warm ocean on Earth.
- **Tornadoes** — The most violent storms on the planet — the tornadoes and outbreaks that tore across Tornado Alley and beyond.
- **Floods** — When the water rose — river floods, flash floods, dam failures and monsoon deluges that swallowed whole regions.
- **Wildfires** — Firestorms out of control — the megafires and firestorms that consumed forests, towns and skies from Australia to California to the Amazon.
- **Volcanoes** — The Earth's furnace breaking through — the eruptions, from Vesuvius and Krakatoa to Pinatubo and beyond, that buried cities and darkened the sky.
- **Landslides & Mudslides** — The mountain coming down — landslides, mudflows, lahars and rockfalls that buried valleys and villages in minutes.
- **Droughts & Heat** — The slow disasters — the great droughts, dust bowls and killer heatwaves that starved land and people across continents.
- **Blizzards, Ice & Cold** — When the world froze — blizzards, ice storms, cold waves and the great winter storms that paralysed nations.
- **Lightning & Freak Storms** — The sky at its strangest — killer lightning, supercells, derechos, ball lightning and the freak storms that defied the forecast.
- **Hail & Dust Storms** — Ice and dust from above — giant hailstorms and the towering dust storms and haboobs that swallowed cities whole.
- **Biological Plagues** — When nature swarmed — the locust plagues, insect infestations and biological disasters that stripped the land bare.
- **Ocean & Coral** — The disasters of the sea — mass coral bleaching, red tides, algal blooms and the slow catastrophes unfolding underwater.
- **Avalanches** — The snow let loose — the avalanches that buried climbers, villages and armies beneath the mountains.
- **Sinkholes & Ground Failure** — The ground opening up — sinkholes, subsidence and the sudden collapses that swallowed roads, houses and people.

## Timeline

### 6100 BC
- **6100 BC** — The Storegga Slide tsunami. Around 6100 BC a colossal submarine landslide off Norway sent a tsunami across the North Sea, drowning the land bridge of Doggerland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6c7dd3d8-5707-4b55-9f03-210bcdf290d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S__dy0nA0k
### 1600 BC
- **1600 BC** — The Minoan (Thera) eruption. Around 1600 BC the volcano of Thera (Santorini) erupted catastrophically, devastating Minoan civilisation and possibly inspiring the Atlantis legend. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/77586e99-a104-4e4a-8eec-8d5a8007bc64) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWlTA0r5mE8
### 1300 BC
- **1300 BC** — The locust plagues of antiquity. Locust plagues have haunted humanity for millennia, recorded in the Bible's Book of Exodus and in ancient Egyptian carvings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/690c8fe2-5855-401d-a307-9d00a2df86b7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCBCqwR5Plg
### 79
- **0079-08-24** — The eruption of Vesuvius, 79 AD. Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and pyroclastic flow, freezing a Roman city in time for two thousand years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ca50b743-e7cf-470f-8c8d-3a526795e1c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRoVMkJ0UlM
### 115
- **0115-12-13** — The 115 Antioch earthquake. An earthquake struck Antioch while the Roman emperor Trajan was wintering there, nearly killing him. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bc0c6402-d617-4151-afa8-92b93c0156a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itYQeTtHeko
### 232
- **0232-01-01** — The Hatepe eruption of Taupō. New Zealand's Lake Taupō produced one of the most violent eruptions of the last 5,000 years around 232 AD. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3e1105e3-e3e2-4f9e-9344-321d634ece95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvhjL6SFwaY
### 365
- **0365-07-21** — The 365 AD Crete earthquake & tsunami. A massive quake off Crete sent a tsunami that devastated the eastern Mediterranean, including Alexandria. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/eb3a03d3-417d-499f-9f60-176d4ea36824) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhOFWGwBWoo
### 431
- **0431-01-01** — The Ilopango eruption. A vast eruption in what is now El Salvador around 431 AD may have darkened skies worldwide and disrupted the Maya. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0e006247-cf4e-46f7-a414-f1e8c1a7e671) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbik0oSWKJg
### 526
- **0526-05-20** — The 526 Antioch earthquake. A quake and fire destroyed Antioch in the Byzantine Empire, killing an estimated 250,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/33c2633c-8ce0-45b6-ac76-91cb6a41033c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ZwMmX65yU
### 541
- **0541-01-01** — The Plague of Justinian. The first recorded bubonic plague pandemic devastated the Byzantine Empire from 541 AD. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ba02edc2-0388-43c0-8759-997bb43593dd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxQGgEcAwDs
### 684
- **0684-11-29** — The 684 Hakuhō earthquake. Japan's oldest recorded tsunami followed the Hakuhō earthquake in the 7th century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/59eec962-bc5f-405f-88a0-b4e7abf02f83) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noH5O5wKerA
### 856
- **0856-12-22** — The 856 Damghan earthquake. One of the deadliest earthquakes in history struck Damghan in Persia in 856, killing some 200,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/85f5b255-a0c0-460e-899f-b3e54f0f5024) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_wLW1aK3A
### 869
- **0869-07-09** — The 869 Jōgan tsunami. A great tsunami flooded the Sendai plain in 869 — a warning from history ignored before 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/af71078d-9743-499f-8768-521531e85402) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4w27IczOTk
### 893
- **0893-03-23** — The 893 Ardabil earthquake. A catastrophic earthquake struck Ardabil in northwestern Persia in 893, one of history's deadliest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/526bcb7c-af01-48b9-8805-0ed70b64e0ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3If7q4Hn2I
### 939
- **0939-01-01** — The Eldgjá eruption. Iceland's Eldgjá fissure produced the largest lava flood in recorded history around 939, chilling the medieval world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/796881fa-b1be-45e1-8699-82c0743a1992) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZM5SXuMYR4
### 946
- **0946-01-01** — The Millennium eruption of Paektu. One of the largest eruptions of the last two thousand years blew apart Changbaishan / Paektu on the China-Korea border around 946. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b8d14c6d-2564-4e10-b12e-a462123f7cb4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FZvafLc5FM
### 1138
- **1138-10-11** — The 1138 Aleppo earthquake. One of the deadliest earthquakes ever, it devastated Aleppo in Syria, killing around 230,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a4ba2cfd-2cc7-4ea7-8a1f-86894c447169) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww0zI8BJum8
### 1200
- **1200-01-01** — The medieval Egyptian famine. A failure of the Nile flood around 1200 caused a famine so severe that chroniclers recorded scenes of horror in Cairo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/719f3d0d-b504-4e5c-818d-b243f8272006) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNMaO0UfFz0
### 1257
- **1257-01-01** — The Samalas eruption. The largest eruption of the last millennium — Samalas in Indonesia in 1257 — caused a global volcanic winter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f3a4a50c-edd1-4f43-804c-9a2e4f780937) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wve6DqCcbDI
### 1287
- **1287-12-14** — The St. Lucia's flood. A storm surge broke the dikes of the Zuiderzee in 1287, drowning tens of thousands in the Low Countries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a91eb62a-4057-4b0e-8328-d4c86d19ad88) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNkOF_g6sWc
### 1332
- **1332-01-01** — The 1332 Yellow River flood. A catastrophic Yellow River flood and the famine and plague that followed killed millions in 14th-century China. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f123a868-c03c-4fed-ae57-18b4bae7addf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd10Brhv220
### 1333
- **1333-11-04** — The 1333 flood of Florence. A great flood of the Arno devastated medieval Florence in 1333, recorded by the chronicler Giovanni Villani. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/408d1be0-54af-477e-b6ed-ee348b96298b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtqgg9Dq4YM
### 1347
- **1347-01-01** — The Black Death. The deadliest pandemic in history, plague carried by fleas killed up to half of Europe from 1347. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f85ba277-7015-4c12-b836-4218b2638d19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSeCP5_FHe4
### 1356
- **1356-10-18** — The 1356 Basel earthquake. The most destructive earthquake in central Europe's recorded history levelled the Swiss city of Basel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/712e3992-6dd1-48c3-8144-5dc1358155cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yjBdvGlvMo
### 1421
- **1421-11-18** — The St. Elizabeth's Flood. A storm surge burst the dikes of Holland in 1421, drowning villages and creating a vast inland sea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cc46d5ad-1d30-4cbd-a81e-978e4e216f1c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-CuHfVVGVI
### 1450
- **1450-01-01** — The Aztec famine of One Rabbit. A years-long drought caused a famine in the Aztec empire around 1450 so severe it entered legend as 'One Rabbit'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e00113a7-3f01-4103-b4e0-40e5d48d8e20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eyuCQfBBH4
### 1452
- **1452-01-01** — The Kuwae eruption. A vast eruption in Vanuatu around 1452 blew the island of Kuwae apart and cooled the globe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4ec4623a-fe16-4425-b98a-53ac367231f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53y8Up6NXyc
### 1520
- **1520-01-01** — The Columbian disease exchange. Old World diseases like smallpox killed a huge share of the indigenous population of the Americas after 1492. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/aac37312-3b2c-431a-a0ba-2ee335ac8651) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8Q8YS3ssg
### 1530
- **1530-11-05** — The St. Felix's Flood, 1530. A storm surge drowned much of the Dutch province of Zeeland on 'Evil Saturday', killing over 100,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/29f6cc43-cbdc-4dc4-bf68-b81277d66858) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7iqiXNtTko
### 1545
- **1545-01-01** — The cocoliztli epidemics. Mysterious 'cocoliztli' epidemics killed millions in 16th-century Mexico, possibly a native salmonella. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/aa3d0c98-55bf-4111-a5a8-f5cb789530de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwC9i14_apk
### 1556
- **1556-01-23** — The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake. The deadliest earthquake in recorded history killed an estimated 830,000 in China's Shaanxi province. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2b2778f6-6b32-41bd-907e-289eeabccae6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8R9EOPoz_k
- **1556-01-23** — The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake. The deadliest earthquake in history killed an estimated 830,000 people in Shaanxi, China, where many lived in soft-loess cave dwellings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a14e8164-bb6c-448b-acc4-e2bd5625fb06) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e4mXLhRNUg
### 1598
- **1598-12-24** — The floods of the Tiber. For centuries the Tiber flooded Rome each winter, its high-water marks still carved on the city's walls. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bcedee10-182d-481d-8806-669833839b5c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_OTiNtXGA
### 1600
- **1600-02-19** — The Huaynaputina eruption. Peru's Huaynaputina produced South America's largest historic eruption, cooling the globe and triggering famine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fbe66ed5-1f52-44c9-9db4-4f13e3ddd94a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK9JgZ1TIhg
### 1618
- **1618-09-04** — The burial of Plurs. A rockslide-avalanche buried the wealthy Swiss-Italian village of Plurs (Piuro) in 1618, killing over 1,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fd2a689a-4fc3-4383-8490-b868a032bb19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp8buqZkcj4
### 1631
- **1631-12-16** — The 1631 eruption of Vesuvius. The most destructive eruption of Vesuvius since Roman times killed thousands around Naples in 1631. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2f23917e-ae72-4980-847d-0f9f7b1eaaa2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFqDrdGDU0M
### 1634
- **1634-10-11** — The Burchardi Flood, 1634. A North Sea storm surge tore apart the coast of North Frisia in Germany and Denmark, killing about 15,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/42c16199-6b47-4c07-8c46-3655a1faa8ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFrP9S7TCXs
### 1635
- **1635-08-25** — The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635. One of the most intense hurricanes to strike New England hit the young Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/98b4bdd1-6db6-4392-b9b6-3f08320c728c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2doST3SgtaI
### 1665
- **1665-01-01** — The Great Plague of London. The last great outbreak of bubonic plague in England killed a quarter of London's people in 1665. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ba6cbedb-03f5-49ad-8e71-b82418033499) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwOAicNDsl4
### 1669
- **1669-03-11** — The 1669 eruption of Mount Etna. Etna's largest historical eruption sent lava into the Sicilian city of Catania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b2bc0f74-7767-40e2-ab06-ec0a273f5d6f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzeSX8RXjhE
### 1689
- **1689-01-01** — The alpine avalanche disasters. For centuries avalanches have swept away entire alpine hamlets in a single winter night, dreaded as the 'white death'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3264c99b-fff4-4861-ad84-07285390262c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vulAKTDEA-w
### 1692
- **1692-06-07** — The 1692 Port Royal earthquake. An earthquake dropped much of the pirate city of Port Royal, Jamaica, into the sea in 1692. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/589ba4d0-7b38-46b3-b3e5-275452be7314) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBi0_UDyPZM
### 1703
- **1703-12-31** — The 1703 Genroku tsunami. An earthquake off Japan's Boso peninsula sent a tsunami into Edo-era coastal towns. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/52b612f7-c217-418e-95a6-9bc181348c54) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeH7Inu_EyE
### 1707
- **1707-10-28** — The 1707 Hōei earthquake. Japan's largest pre-modern earthquake sent a tsunami along the Pacific coast and preceded an eruption of Mount Fuji. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7478bbb4-83e8-4359-b9d2-a71c2c85a915) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmIeSICyvPM
### 1737
- **1737-10-07** — The 1737 Calcutta cyclone. A cyclone and storm surge struck the mouth of the Hooghly River near Calcutta, one of history's deadliest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/34b0925b-a3ab-4f75-b8a4-560170c48cc7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmkNsXq_U_E
### 1746
- **1746-10-28** — The 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake. An earthquake and tsunami destroyed Lima and its port Callao in 1746, one of Peru's worst disasters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/04024dad-868d-477d-abc4-f7dc09675323) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-JiUa9XGt0
### 1751
- **1751-05-25** — The 1751 Concepción earthquake. A great earthquake and tsunami destroyed Concepción in colonial Chile, forcing the city to move. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0f9a5116-7de7-4a6e-a72c-11eb0f201d43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryl3mi6j_qk
### 1755
- **1755-11-01** — The 1755 Lisbon earthquake. On All Saints' Day 1755 a magnitude ~8.5 quake, fire and tsunami destroyed Lisbon and killed tens of thousands — a catastrophe that shook Enlightenment Europe's faith itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6826ee85-a909-4553-953d-1904f474c593) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nglkbzjmSA0
### 1769
- **1769-08-18** — The Brescia lightning disaster. Lightning struck a church vault storing gunpowder in Brescia, Italy, in 1769, and the explosion destroyed a sixth of the city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5d7147fc-631b-43ce-b5ac-62a9beceeb65) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHqFApcjZgA
### 1775
- **1775-09-09** — The Newfoundland hurricane of 1775. A hurricane killed thousands of fishermen off Newfoundland in 1775, one of the deadliest in Canadian history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0f01f284-9fc1-4d55-853b-771b509d92f9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ8e_03hWOQ
### 1780
- **1780-10-10** — The Great Hurricane of 1780. The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record killed over 22,000 across the Caribbean during the American Revolution. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9132bdcb-d1a2-4804-8392-1a606774a88d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R49YlIPnDQ
### 1783
- **1783-02-05** — The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes. A sequence of earthquakes devastated Calabria in southern Italy in 1783, killing tens of thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9125d3ec-e6af-40e1-a805-4981666a9d6f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxwJqNC2hR0
- **1783-06-08** — The 1783 Laki eruption. Iceland's Laki fissure erupted for months, poisoning livestock and crops and causing a famine that killed a fifth of Iceland's people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/367dcc00-809d-485c-bf8e-9651a961257b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftBDluqgTI
### 1788
- **1788-01-01** — The drought before the Revolution. Drought, hail and a brutal winter wrecked France's harvest in 1788, helping ignite the Revolution the next year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1e825903-3546-48c9-918e-9e9fae334f60) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTvKwCylFY
### 1792
- **1792-05-21** — The 1792 Mount Unzen disaster. A volcanic collapse and tsunami at Mount Unzen killed about 15,000 — Japan's deadliest volcanic disaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6e47fc48-135a-43e0-b104-9ecc696048b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPXmGDwIgX0
### 1797
- **1797-02-04** — The 1797 Riobamba earthquake. One of the most destructive earthquakes in the Andes levelled Riobamba, Ecuador, killing tens of thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/19044ff7-34c0-4904-924e-512016449d52) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBk93IHch9c
### 1806
- **1806-09-02** — The Goldau landslide. A mountainside collapsed onto the Swiss village of Goldau in 1806, burying it and its people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/625b3860-5898-4b9d-a01e-9f30c35c1115) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gphUQ_kBITA
### 1811
- **1811-12-16** — The New Madrid earthquakes. A series of massive earthquakes rocked the central U.S. in 1811-12, reportedly making the Mississippi run backwards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c8e06140-9491-4d08-94f6-da81c0908973) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh_DSYoS4Js
### 1812
- **1812-03-26** — The 1812 Caracas earthquake. An earthquake destroyed Caracas during Venezuela's war of independence, killing thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f5eec141-e933-4042-9b5c-3533932743b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSTitftWA0s
### 1815
- **1815-04-10** — The 1815 eruption of Tambora. The most powerful eruption in recorded history threw so much ash into the sky it caused 1816's 'Year Without a Summer' worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/00d7c4e1-201c-4200-a1ea-b3b049d75721) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nJDTR6R7Gc
- **1815-09-23** — The Great September Gale of 1815. A powerful hurricane struck New England in 1815, the worst until 1938. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/688000c1-ec2a-4a24-9e5b-51c3dbe94a6f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNtMT37PcKY
### 1822
- **1822-08-13** — The 1822 Aleppo earthquake. An earthquake devastated the Syrian city of Aleppo again in 1822, centuries after the great 1138 disaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6491f532-9649-42b3-99e9-9190751cd51a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyLxUJuTb6I
- **1822-10-08** — The 1822 Galunggung eruption. Java's Galunggung erupted with deadly lahars that killed over 4,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c83b19e2-b4ec-40e3-a939-802717287281) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpofR09klNc
### 1839
- **1839-11-25** — The 1839 Coringa cyclone. A cyclone and storm surge destroyed the Indian port of Coringa, killing some 300,000 and erasing the town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/236e3358-bbea-4bdf-a68a-ccf0befb5452) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlw-H60BOk4
### 1840
- **1840-05-07** — The 1840 Natchez tornado. The second-deadliest tornado in U.S. history struck Natchez, Mississippi, along the river, killing over 300. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2838ee81-e5a7-42f3-890d-a9642c92e9c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUUk1iMlp7A
### 1845
- **1845-01-01** — The Great Irish Famine. A potato blight caused a famine that killed a million and drove a million more to emigrate from Ireland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e5d0585e-a07b-4f4d-8f86-594ac85f2002) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Rbj7H0eX4
### 1846
- **1846-10-11** — The Great Havana Hurricane of 1846. A hurricane devastated Havana in 1846, one of the most intense to strike Cuba in the 19th century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/17d6f4f8-4931-44dd-9e73-ff7bae08a86c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkYuOR8K1FU
### 1851
- **1851-02-06** — The Black Thursday bushfires. The 1851 Black Thursday fires burned a quarter of what is now Victoria, Australia, on a single day. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d5ac4b88-0488-47e0-baa3-4df035601fbc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FntQfHLers
### 1854
- **1854-01-01** — The Broad Street cholera outbreak. John Snow traced a deadly 1854 London cholera outbreak to a single water pump, founding modern epidemiology. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d5a70850-d0c7-48bb-a830-d8bd770524d5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNjrAXGRda4
### 1855
- **1855-01-23** — The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake. New Zealand's largest recorded earthquake lifted the Wellington coastline in 1855. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7167485a-07a6-4ca4-aa56-5d4dc64526f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXMPDNhyL_I
- **1855-11-11** — The 1855 Edo earthquake. An earthquake struck Edo (Tokyo), spawning the famous 'namazu-e' catfish woodblock prints of Japanese folklore. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0b780e63-565f-4944-8ce4-373636f5aa14) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDYhyw05Q8o
### 1863
- **1863-01-01** — The great wine blight. The phylloxera aphid destroyed most of Europe's vineyards in the 19th century, nearly ending winemaking. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f65e78cf-ec2b-436d-8fbe-36233463805c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SowSuC0jNoI
### 1864
- **1864-03-11** — The Great Sheffield Flood. The failure of the Dale Dyke Dam sent a wall of water through Sheffield, England, killing about 240. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a997d2fd-2ae5-4beb-a113-20ef3f08c840) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQiPaCt0X3Q
- **1864-10-05** — The 1864 Calcutta cyclone. A cyclone drove a huge surge up the Hooghly into Calcutta in 1864, killing tens of thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6123f1a7-0ded-4d6d-ba4b-041545857cef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzozMIGDNL8
### 1867
- **1867-11-18** — The 1867 Virgin Islands tsunami. An earthquake sent a tsunami through the Virgin Islands and the eastern Caribbean in 1867. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fb6f72c1-0c11-4069-93c7-d845ce45bfc7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfXZBptHmEs
### 1868
- **1868-08-13** — The 1868 Arica earthquake and tsunami. A great earthquake off Peru (now Chile) sent a tsunami that carried a US warship inland at Arica. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e04fba5f-0c89-4cf0-83c9-5eba4e0e6569) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHx_QClz4Fc
### 1871
- **1871-10-08** — The 1871 Peshtigo Fire. The deadliest wildfire in recorded history swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin, killing up to 2,500 on the same night as the Great Chicago Fire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f6426b17-0c39-4275-80b4-f61c92cf407a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Aw03TgAmdo
### 1875
- **1875-01-01** — The Rocky Mountain locust swarm. In 1875 the largest recorded locust swarm — trillions of Rocky Mountain locusts — darkened the skies of the American West before the species went extinct. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7ffde542-1539-439e-a1c6-9194799a5b54) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br4Zh968JCU
### 1876
- **1876-01-01** — The Great Famine of 1876-78. Drought and colonial policy caused a famine that killed millions across southern India. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/39c17b56-4c88-4148-9490-39bccc6e15e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgISwyNtyRk
- **1876-01-01** — The 1876-79 Northern Chinese famine. A catastrophic drought caused a famine that killed an estimated 9-13 million across northern China. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/432ccb8a-d148-4396-b704-8f7e6fc3de6c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD6emrd6NsM
- **1876-10-31** — The 1876 Great Backerganj cyclone. A cyclone drove a huge surge into the Bengal delta, killing around 200,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a7cc2da6-5450-4299-82dc-284e2526ca2b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8uBJSmDRmQ
### 1877
- **1877-01-01** — The global drought of 1876-78. A vast El Niño drought caused famines that killed tens of millions across India, China and Brazil. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d03e53ae-249c-4948-8b17-c7e753f80541) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vzG6J_GwhI
- **1877-06-26** — The 1877 Cotopaxi eruption. An eruption of Ecuador's Cotopaxi sent lahars racing over 100 km down its valleys in 1877. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0388ea9d-0696-44f5-ac5d-35cd0675c878) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6P18hfY9kU
### 1880
- **1880-04-18** — The 1880 Marshfield tornado. A tornado destroyed Marshfield, Missouri, one of the deadliest of the 19th century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2fdd0e72-529f-44af-844c-ce73cc4840d8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxH9TxaZ62A
### 1881
- **1881-09-05** — The Thumb Fire of 1881. A firestorm swept Michigan's Thumb region in 1881, the first disaster to which the new American Red Cross responded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/006180f9-477d-4844-83bf-f5303313c987) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rY38SK3YEY
- **1881-09-11** — The 1881 Elm rockslide. A rockslide destroyed part of the village of Elm in Switzerland, killing 115. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6826a671-19d8-43ba-8dbb-a625235ba7ad) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFb2rqj8lU
### 1883
- **1883-08-27** — The 1883 Krakatoa tsunami. Krakatoa's eruption generated tsunamis up to 30 metres high that killed over 36,000 around the Sunda Strait. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/08acf893-c0ea-42e9-994d-5e47a8e11e43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UZtKyRCOg8
- **1883-08-27** — The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. Krakatoa exploded with a sound heard 4,800 km away, generating tsunamis that killed over 36,000 and cooling the whole planet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/87c0fbb4-e05d-4510-a939-0485ed1fb3dd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LsqbgtgeHY
### 1886
- **1886-08-31** — The 1886 Charleston earthquake. A rare, powerful earthquake in the U.S. Southeast devastated Charleston, South Carolina. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/60513460-c3d0-4b1a-b5d4-5b6c8b970dd8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndGYo4QSkkg
### 1887
- **1887-09-01** — The 1887 Yellow River flood. The Yellow River burst its banks in Henan, China, one of the deadliest floods ever, killing up to 2 million. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8e4188fd-8410-4768-8d3e-05b3b865ada5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcuNeHnP9UA
### 1888
- **1888-01-12** — The 1888 Schoolhouse Blizzard. A sudden blizzard struck the U.S. Great Plains as children left school, killing 235, many of them children. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c65aff09-024c-4fdf-a490-c48ff657bad3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhTEL1O2D1w
- **1888-03-11** — The Great White Hurricane. The Blizzard of 1888 buried the U.S. Northeast in snow days after the Schoolhouse Blizzard hit the Plains. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/53b5ef0a-89f8-4047-ac6f-4b7d1358b693) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c29f_59fHG4
- **1888-03-11** — The Great Blizzard of 1888. A blizzard buried the U.S. Northeast under up to 1.3 metres of snow, killing over 400 and stranding New York. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f9ca87f0-8d3e-4dc8-92ba-91934aac9957) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqv36UJBQ-k
- **1888-07-15** — The 1888 Mount Bandai eruption. A sudden collapse of Japan's Mount Bandai buried villages and killed nearly 500 in 1888. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ff153eb4-ebff-45d1-9de7-71c221c89b8f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYzEwLtqKNo
### 1889
- **1889-05-31** — The 1889 Johnstown Flood. The South Fork Dam failed above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, sending a 20-metre wall of water that killed 2,209. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/56a50f08-6071-48ea-8783-c25a43717a31) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB2c7K-Xpc8
- **1889-07-01** — The Naga and monsoon landslides. Monsoon-soaked hillsides collapse across South and Southeast Asia every year, burying roads and villages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0cfe6c99-be31-40b1-828d-0a5cd7d5229a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUr1Y6PDrdY
### 1890
- **1890-01-01** — The great rinderpest panzootic. A cattle plague swept Africa in the 1890s, killing most of the continent's cattle and causing mass famine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/180e4565-f870-475a-b3e5-2a7d72a06cbe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CtmS6ooCSo
### 1891
- **1891-10-28** — The 1891 Mino–Owari earthquake. The largest known inland earthquake in Japan tore a visible fault scarp across the countryside. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/52d10ed3-9508-4223-a3e3-3d21f0c06ac2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsxsqFfGPhw
### 1894
- **1894-09-01** — The Great Hinckley Fire. A firestorm destroyed the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, in 1894, killing over 400. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c4734357-bafa-4810-ad62-8201de27206d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCaZtKVQ2j0
### 1896
- **1896-05-27** — The 1896 St. Louis tornado. A tornado tore through St. Louis and East St. Louis, one of the deadliest and costliest in U.S. history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d8c484c6-d6fb-4c85-8ef2-2f8eaccbfbb8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB9qlp0Ztik
- **1896-06-15** — The 1896 Meiji Sanriku tsunami. A tsunami struck Japan's Sanriku coast during a festival, killing over 22,000 — the modern origin of the word 'tsunami' worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3218a496-a14c-4abf-b516-59c9be1933bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLT6KQRVZAc
### 1899
- **1899-02-11** — The Great Blizzard of 1899. A cold wave and blizzard in February 1899 brought snow to every U.S. state, even Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/129e1fcc-9724-4ccc-9ea5-8d2edd964585) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNMbEGbqbHc
### 1910
- **1910-01-28** — The Great Flood of Paris. The Seine burst its banks in 1910, submerging Paris streets for weeks in the city's worst modern flood. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5bcb103f-3208-4d36-a0b8-a648a4cac98e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYJ5cq5bUC8
### 1927
- **1927-04-15** — The 1927 Great Mississippi Flood. The most destructive river flood in U.S. history inundated 70,000 square km and displaced 630,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/90f37e70-11c9-4201-814e-7a2ada532cb1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgLrVHSTYWU
### 1928
- **1928-11-02** — The 1928 Etna eruption. An eruption of Mount Etna destroyed the town of Mascali in 1928, the only town lost to Etna in modern times. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a382fdc6-411f-41f7-ae24-6a414b80e32b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVu92JJVrxI
### 1933
- **1933-08-14** — The Tillamook Burn. A series of huge fires burned Oregon's Tillamook forest repeatedly from 1933, later famously replanted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e59f53cb-2f61-4c29-9571-58bda7f1256b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatzdMh49ps
### 1934
- **1934-05-01** — The Dust Bowl. Years of drought and poor farming turned the American Great Plains to dust in the 1930s, driving hundreds of thousands from their land. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ee7df1f7-c3e6-455c-91a9-414c724178cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvKJ9fK99YU
### 1938
- **1938-09-21** — The 1938 New England hurricane. The 'Long Island Express' struck New England without warning, killing nearly 700. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/629a673f-0b42-435b-9f73-88274c5005bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL8DHhUCpc8
### 1939
- **1939-01-24** — The 1939 Chillán earthquake. An earthquake destroyed the Chilean city of Chillán in 1939, one of the country's deadliest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5ed7e7f2-9858-4187-a0b3-c6277ce7d237) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRNl17DYhew
### 1943
- **1943-02-20** — The birth of Parícutin. A volcano burst out of a Mexican cornfield in 1943 and grew before farmers' eyes, one of the great geological events of the century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/96c51b37-38d8-4c8a-9d3b-e0970737d335) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3KEe3ojFI
### 1944
- **1944-01-15** — The 1944 San Juan earthquake. An earthquake destroyed the Argentine city of San Juan in 1944, a disaster that helped launch Juan Perón. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/95ea434b-66bb-482c-9c4d-82e5b257b2ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtJc-BT4QW0
### 1946
- **1946-04-01** — The tsunami that changed Hawaii. The 1946 tsunami's surprise attack on Hilo led to the founding of the Pacific Tsunami Warning System. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/02133d8d-e270-41bb-badf-3f1a106b629b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVy_oE-wrIk
### 1947
- **1947-09-15** — The Kathleen Typhoon floods. Typhoon Kathleen's floods devastated the Kanto plain around Tokyo in 1947. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bfb0811b-faa1-40ca-be1e-a1ccea5d7f94) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuTmmXoTuy0
- **1947-10-17** — The 1947 Maine fires. Wildfires swept coastal Maine in the dry autumn of 1947, burning Bar Harbor and much of Acadia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2246cb32-4538-476e-b83e-587231847a40) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTj_v8G-kc
- **1947-12-26** — The 1947 New York blizzard. A surprise blizzard dumped record snow on New York City the day after Christmas 1947. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bb48ecea-76d6-47a5-b91d-d3f6bc4286fe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SHsx4R6mzs
### 1951
- **1951-11-14** — The 1951 Polesine flood. The Po River burst its banks in 1951, flooding the Polesine region of northern Italy and displacing 180,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cfffd65b-952d-49b0-82dc-ed435fa3dd27) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1fFiZuc9mI
### 1952
- **1952-08-15** — The Lynmouth flood. A flash flood roared down the East and West Lyn rivers into the Devon village of Lynmouth, killing 34. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/dbe95c42-ce1a-4b94-ad6c-b05e12cd2e17) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMWi5b10flk
### 1954
- **1954-01-11** — The 1954 Blons avalanches. Two avalanches struck the Austrian village of Blons on the same day, killing over 100. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2cd7933c-eefc-4f4e-ac74-be4e1fe484aa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvCSRT9QGmA
- **1954-08-31** — Hurricane Carol. struck New England hard in 1954, weeks before Hurricane Edna followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ed5f0580-1324-4df9-b372-e3742bac07e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je9e9YGAV-E
### 1955
- **1955** — The North African locust invasions. Desert-locust swarms have swept North Africa and the Middle East for millennia, devouring everything green. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9b82984c-02ff-44aa-93e7-5385a6761c62) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-7Tf5jgmU0
### 1957
- **1957-06-27** — Hurricane Audrey. 's surge struck southwestern Louisiana with little warning in 1957, killing hundreds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c41cddb5-c995-4903-86e5-acd27871a1b7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMMfZB82gfY
### 1959
- **1959** — Typhoon Mireille. was one of the costliest to strike Japan in the 20th century, in 1991. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6c1062d0-bb86-4859-9d33-071534984fe4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzLoednjJhE
- **1959-09-26** — Typhoon Vera (Isewan). Japan's deadliest typhoon struck Nagoya with a huge storm surge, killing over 5,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/68b48538-5acc-45f0-86b4-d2914702c7a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWp8HbCa3RM
### 1960
- **1960-02-29** — The 1960 Agadir earthquake. A moderate but shallow quake destroyed the Moroccan city of Agadir, killing a third of its population. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a9050b69-c153-4b11-9213-7ef66b90cefa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4dFZwJ_tDc
- **1960-05-22** — The 1960 Pacific tsunami. The Valdivia quake sent tsunamis across the Pacific that killed people in Chile, Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ae52f76f-2a2f-4e86-9848-a3a82e2d22b4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZbcGS--SYM
- **1960-09-09** — Hurricane Donna. raked the entire U.S. East Coast from Florida to New England in 1960. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ff30f59d-5c55-49f1-81cd-efa36f2b0312) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm8v6QyqJ58
### 1962
- **1962-01-10** — The 1962 Huascarán avalanche. An ice avalanche from Peru's Huascarán mountain buried the town of Ranrahirca, killing about 4,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/28aade73-9c45-46be-9a99-a98208fb1ecc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EguD_Whw8uA
- **1962-09-01** — Typhoon Wanda. drove a deadly storm surge into Hong Kong's Tolo Harbour in 1962. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/eff31cb0-c985-4c04-ba8d-7c2c4ce1b0d3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIv8C8nL_Vo
### 1963
- **1963-01-01** — The Big Freeze of 1962-63. The coldest winter in Britain in over 200 years froze the sea and buried the country in snow for months. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/baf1fec3-3f61-4b53-b7e3-dee73628176c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grhcGPYLPYg
- **1963-10-04** — Hurricane Flora. stalled over Cuba and Haiti in 1963, its rains killing thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/30f8d09f-d085-4493-a543-fc346ed8b84d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIjqQXqbcgs
- **1963-11-14** — The birth of Surtsey. A new island, Surtsey, rose from the sea off Iceland in 1963 in a spectacular undersea eruption. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8805a6ce-773d-4c12-b262-e51bb09b8da4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neqMw4sA2OA
### 1964
- **1964-03-27** — The 1964 Alaska earthquake. The magnitude 9.2 Good Friday earthquake — the strongest in North American history — devastated Anchorage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/77017b9b-afa1-4410-8d94-593c95881a6f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH7wg-TQ1Xg
### 1965
- **1965-09-08** — Hurricane Betsy. 'Billion Dollar Betsy' flooded New Orleans in 1965, a grim rehearsal for Katrina forty years later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7b0e8219-4ec8-465c-add3-321e57979246) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YogJfH3isU
- **1965-09-28** — The 1965 Taal eruption. A violent eruption of the Philippines' Taal volcano killed hundreds on its lake island. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/17db4a7e-c1e1-4d2a-836b-67d257c78085) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml146wmLM4M
### 1966
- **1966** — The 1972 Hong Kong landslides. Torrential rain triggered deadly landslides across Hong Kong, including the Kotewall Road collapse. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a06b87e4-fcda-47cd-94c3-6db9212d1e1d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHrMxjcH2PE
- **1966-10-14** — The 1966 Belmond tornado. A tornado destroyed much of the Iowa town of Belmond in 1966. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/95072b5b-f422-4dea-ac70-0a6587e21718) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVZlCjCCAqg
### 1967
- **1967-11-25** — The 1967 Lisbon floods. Flash floods killed hundreds around Lisbon, Portugal, in a single night in 1967, a long-hidden disaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7f26a6b6-63f1-44cc-8032-e5547504c4e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L-19q78IBI
### 1968
- **1968** — The 1963 Skopje earthquake. A quake destroyed 80% of Skopje in Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia), killing over 1,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c5a5d08f-3cd2-4dd7-9ffc-4a6f8a497f39) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GkkT9N3-5g
### 1970
- **1970-11-12** — The 1970 Bhola cyclone. A cyclone struck the Ganges Delta of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 300,000-500,000 — the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1346971c-52fc-4be6-86b2-9b9b54033faf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krtJM0lz4Iw
### 1971
- **1971-05-04** — The 1971 Saint-Jean-Vianney landslide. A quick-clay collapse swallowed 40 homes in the Quebec village of Saint-Jean-Vianney, killing 31. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f3468404-8bfe-4e61-8ba4-2bc3bdb651c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLefydc551Y
- **1971** — Dutch elm disease. A fungus spread by beetles killed most of the elm trees of Europe and North America in the 20th century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/75f8c840-0b8f-4b5b-ab77-a53c9cb39852) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IToFe7iXFqY
- **1971-08-01** — The 1971 Red River flood. The Red River delta flood of 1971 is considered one of the worst of the 20th century in Vietnam. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8aceb7fa-4605-4c04-a918-65427d90732e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k5-XkyLOp8
### 1972
- **1972-12-23** — The 1972 Managua earthquake. An earthquake destroyed the centre of Managua, Nicaragua, on Christmas Eve, killing over 10,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/897480d8-f1ed-4ca8-81b4-6ef47fd99000) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3oZfEiGBh0
### 1973
- **1973-01-23** — The Heimaey eruption. An eruption on Iceland's Heimaey island in 1973 buried a fishing town, and residents pumped seawater to stop the lava. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bed390a9-5224-4bf6-91f6-30ad8e67baae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avnd5kqlsxg
- **1973** — The Sahel droughts. Decades of drought across Africa's Sahel from the late 1960s brought famine to Ethiopia, Sudan and the Sahara's edge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c483a7c0-1e19-4fbd-a83c-4ae0ea04dd25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IONDJmVG0y8
### 1974
- **1974-09-18** — Hurricane Fifi. 's rains caused catastrophic flooding in Honduras, killing thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2fcb1b9a-1750-48a4-9c1d-5fa3619de4f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYFAM1NrX5U
### 1976
- **1976-02-04** — The 1976 Guatemala earthquake. A quake along the Motagua Fault killed over 23,000 in Guatemala. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7475c14c-9b88-406e-a00a-b13057680644) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RXde_rVvpU
- **1976-06-05** — The Teton Dam failure. Idaho's brand-new Teton Dam collapsed as it filled, filmed as the flood swept downstream. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/31ebff88-f0f1-457c-b785-546e9e54ab11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqXsWOKxUmk
- **1976-07-28** — The 1976 Tangshan earthquake. A magnitude 7.6 quake struck the sleeping Chinese city of Tangshan, killing at least 242,000 people — one of the deadliest earthquakes in recorded history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c3ea6a6d-c4e9-4219-8a33-23f8d53ea953) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGom7kU7b7A
### 1977
- **1977-01-28** — The Blizzard of 1977. A blizzard with hurricane-force winds buried Buffalo, New York, in one of the worst U.S. snow disasters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9f3f1d9a-547c-4aa2-90ef-3ce9e89d7e2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Rt_4-OaXY
- **1977-11-23** — The 1977 Caucete earthquake. An earthquake struck the San Juan region of Argentina in 1977, causing widespread liquefaction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c013b6d9-d19d-4b11-88a0-808bc7a1cf85) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obskgx0i1k8
### 1978
- **1978-02-05** — The Blizzard of 1978. A historic blizzard buried the U.S. Northeast, stranding thousands on highways around Boston. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c31e207d-5da7-4933-ab5a-64c71b53121a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDnM-29T_mA
- **1978-09-16** — The 1978 Tabas earthquake. An earthquake obliterated the Iranian desert town of Tabas, killing around 15,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5f7898bd-4cbb-497c-8e64-bd25f09d416c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmxhUE6M6oQ
### 1979
- **1979-12-12** — The 1979 Tumaco tsunami. An earthquake off Colombia and Ecuador sent a tsunami into the town of Tumaco in 1979. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e11e423f-f6b9-455b-b453-d615a3034fb5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pttpWgZN-gM
### 1980
- **1980-06-01** — The 1980 US heat wave. A brutal heat wave and drought killed over 1,700 across the central and southern U.S. in 1980. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a861bf84-375c-4a77-8b05-367c37d9d934) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCf8fNXBxcw
- **1980-08-07** — Hurricane Allen. was one of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded, raking the Caribbean and Texas in 1980. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d38bb63e-3a78-423b-a897-2809ac50beb8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu0vv9n7oEQ
- **1980-10-10** — The 1980 El Asnam earthquake. An earthquake destroyed the Algerian city of El Asnam (Chlef) in 1980, killing thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7aa02e8a-4012-41f1-9773-bb9b7f84793c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OohSJlc05o
- **1980-11-23** — The 1980 Irpinia earthquake. A quake struck the Campania and Basilicata regions of southern Italy, killing nearly 2,500. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c4e3c49f-a445-448f-b9bc-66663564019f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXO_hz7vgHI
### 1981
- **1981-05-08** — The Winter Park sinkhole. A huge sinkhole opened in Winter Park, Florida, in 1981, swallowing a house, cars and part of a swimming pool. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/44b5d4e9-d30f-48ae-9046-d99c30afae86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPL4guf4BV4
- **1981** — The Winter Park sinkhole. A huge sinkhole opened in Winter Park, Florida, in 1980, swallowing a house, cars and part of a pool. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8d8ba636-f6c7-40b9-9664-e3aee9290df1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc_0_HLGd9s
### 1983
- **1983-02-16** — The Ash Wednesday bushfires. Firestorms swept South Australia and Victoria on Ash Wednesday 1983, killing 75. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e3a021f9-35df-45d4-929d-bd40005147f5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zit2nYOnWUQ
### 1984
- **1984-07-12** — The 1984 Munich hailstorm. A supercell dropped huge hail on Munich in 1984, one of the costliest hailstorms in European history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f545bce1-8001-4ea4-9bca-bf27db22a2aa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ULCSmDAIbI
### 1985
- **1985-09-19** — The 1985 Mexico City earthquake. An 8.0 quake off the Pacific coast devastated Mexico City hundreds of kilometres away, collapsing buildings and killing around 10,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/00d35ca7-7043-43fa-8563-cef819c77729) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_8Xmrtw2jU
### 1986
- **1986-10-10** — The 1986 San Salvador earthquake. An earthquake struck the capital of El Salvador in 1986, killing over 1,500. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8b048401-4ce9-4fe2-b1c0-e3896fff55ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8CL8fDcfSY
### 1987
- **1987-10-16** — The Great Storm of 1987. A freak extratropical storm battered southern England in 1987, felling 15 million trees overnight. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c97e0dac-b664-4ef0-b543-ee945c498476) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcgKA-dF0_A
### 1988
- **1988-06-01** — The 1988 North American drought. A severe drought and heatwave withered the U.S. farm belt in 1988 and fed the Yellowstone fires. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/010a0455-316d-4604-b540-685c3e7441a7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kp0PnBF6N4
- **1988-06-01** — The 1988 Yellowstone fires. Fires burned a third of Yellowstone National Park, forcing a rethink of natural fire management. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3bbdde38-8287-46db-aa0b-e8fca633aab1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rd4PN088eY
- **1988-09-14** — Hurricane Gilbert. One of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record, Gilbert devastated Jamaica and the Yucatán. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/95bdd4c3-aa00-426a-be7b-3f8d2cc063d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoR8Y3REsdA
- **1988-12-07** — The 1988 Armenian earthquake. The Spitak earthquake devastated northern Armenia in the Soviet Union, killing at least 25,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/41e13921-4739-4054-93b1-9961bf0e818e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJKdV7MTlfc
### 1989
- **1989-09-21** — Hurricane Hugo. Hugo devastated the Caribbean and the Carolinas, one of the costliest hurricanes of its era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/eda268b0-1062-4ab8-9274-a6eb4676da02) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne61H1Q-ACs
- **1989-10-17** — The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. A quake struck the San Francisco Bay Area during a live World Series broadcast, collapsing a freeway and killing 63. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/58074b59-73ce-435c-84a5-83f42c5a0055) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLBkyzxAm6I
### 1991
- **1991-02-01** — The Kuwaiti oil fires. Retreating forces set fire to over 600 Kuwaiti oil wells, blackening the sky for months in an environmental catastrophe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8a6934d0-8004-4574-9ddc-6a4dedfb6ccf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weNJ7z3c9Fc
- **1991-04-26** — The 1991 Andover tornado. An F5 tornado near Andover, Kansas, was one of the first violent tornadoes captured on home video. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cc1035db-90d6-445d-9874-5b36ee34c4a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA4msz6NFcc
- **1991-11-02** — Cyclone Gay. The 1991 Bay of Bengal cyclone drove a massive surge into Bangladesh, killing around 138,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2e2c433c-444f-4e4a-b8c4-1d409369af19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w1cW18GlFc
### 1992
- **1992-07-02** — The collapse of the cod. Centuries of overfishing crashed the northern cod off Newfoundland in 1992, ending a way of life overnight. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0f01f770-0cdc-4b8f-abfa-7f2bda32fdf0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaOiYTKOkaI
- **1992-08-24** — Hurricane Andrew. A Category 5 hurricane flattened parts of South Florida, causing $27 billion in damage and rewriting how America builds for storms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a6fc27b2-c60c-4437-a8d8-306989ec872b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu_GyWxDfcM
- **1992-10-12** — The 1992 Cairo earthquake. A moderate but shallow earthquake struck Cairo in 1992, killing over 500 in the crowded city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/63ab5091-f73d-489d-93bd-664ef03a2383) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkSP7nnpy_E
### 1993
- **1993** — The 1930 Midi floods. Catastrophic floods struck the Tarn and Garonne valleys of southern France in 1930, killing hundreds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/78fd183a-bf3e-4b0a-9b18-c54f52568c7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNL0vYuvjEc
- **1993-07-01** — The 1993 Great Flood. Months of flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers submerged much of the American Midwest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e4564a29-36ac-4fc1-af49-b375a456dcd8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzxEbSd1yds
- **1993-09-30** — The 1993 Latur earthquake. An earthquake struck a quiet, quake-free part of India in 1993, killing nearly 10,000 in their sleep. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6f5fcc7d-e29c-4adc-a032-eb87cafc2e08) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQfdjfUFUF4
### 1994
- **1994-01-17** — The 1994 Northridge earthquake. A quake beneath Los Angeles killed 57 and caused over $20 billion in damage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0b1fc268-bb9d-4c32-9de3-49a41559802d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xrPjSy89zQ
### 1995
- **1995-01-16** — The 1995 Súðavík avalanche. An avalanche destroyed part of the Icelandic village of Súðavík in 1995, killing 14. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/61f4ebf7-666a-4864-8304-43b3ce172b08) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7HdSKo0FyI
- **1995-05-05** — The Mayfest hailstorm. A hailstorm struck an outdoor festival in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1995, injuring over 100 people caught in the open. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a8f92a73-a1b1-4410-be0b-707d1e710199) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daKilcH-lgI
### 1997
- **1997-05-27** — The 1997 Jarrell tornado. A slow, violent F5 tornado obliterated the town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 in one of the most intense tornadoes ever documented. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/016e395a-1312-44b5-a6fa-0f989d379650) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRmFecyJDA
### 1998
- **1998-01-05** — The 1998 North American ice storm. A massive ice storm coated Quebec and the northeastern U.S. in ice, collapsing power grids and leaving millions in the cold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6670cf83-1422-483b-8cb4-5efd43e4c4b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ujPdevvhs
- **1998-05-05** — The 1998 Sarno mudslides. Debris flows buried the towns of Sarno and Quindici in southern Italy in 1998, killing over 150. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3787f527-d7b7-40de-939a-0baed3fc32c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QAg7hjMn2Y
- **1998-10-29** — Hurricane Mitch. Mitch stalled over Central America, dropping catastrophic rain that killed over 11,000 in Honduras and Nicaragua. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/423b9922-19d1-46df-aa3b-f4005cf27feb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r6qJ3YhlmE
### 1999
- **1999-01-25** — The 1999 Armenia earthquake. An earthquake devastated Colombia's coffee-growing region around the city of Armenia in 1999. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f9fe5fc6-3ac8-4d75-8835-9421407acb29) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXEEOdBUdT8
- **1999-02-09** — The 1999 Montroc avalanche. An avalanche destroyed chalets near Chamonix, France, killing 12 and prompting a landmark negligence trial. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/63a183ec-2e4f-497f-a291-62bac5e1e3d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z36Hk501bCo
- **1999-02-24** — The Galtür airlift. After the 1999 Galtür avalanche, the largest peacetime helicopter airlift in Austrian history evacuated the valley. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b0e8c403-e410-4fe7-9ceb-cfb4af1174de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzyPeeB1pOw
- **1999-04-14** — The 1999 Sydney hailstorm. A freak hailstorm battered Sydney with giant hail in 1999, Australia's costliest natural disaster at the time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/376855ac-4650-4df9-8c4d-22989d849bc8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAlhjeW0_lY
- **1999-08-17** — The 1999 İzmit earthquake. A magnitude 7.6 quake struck northwestern Turkey, killing over 17,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/abfdf1a5-b10c-4f28-9221-7008ad8b144f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ4nGmuD5Fg
- **1999-09-21** — The 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake. The 921 earthquake devastated central Taiwan in 1999, killing over 2,400 and collapsing a school onto its foundations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/942c869f-efdb-4e0b-8fe9-d78d2a09b493) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIr-idRpnUI
- **1999-10-29** — The 1999 Odisha cyclone. The strongest tropical cyclone ever in the North Indian Ocean struck Odisha, India, killing about 10,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9a38eaf8-9f51-4c74-9acf-130fbe28a8ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJjkLnKyhkE
- **1999-11-12** — The 1999 Düzce earthquake. A second great earthquake struck Düzce, Turkey, months after the İzmit disaster of 1999. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/90137d69-57ad-4645-86d6-48803c1f2d2b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H07CtKy9MQ
- **1999-12-26** — The storms Lothar and Martin. Two ferocious windstorms tore across France and central Europe after Christmas 1999, killing 140. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/10c14959-eca1-4012-8e98-932a142a62fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc9N8bk19u4
### 2000
- **2000-03-31** — The 2000 Mount Usu eruption. An eruption of Hokkaido's Mount Usu was predicted in time to evacuate thousands, a rare forecasting success. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/654f3f33-cc41-4dba-b3f5-df979094c417) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSi0labvYI0
### 2001
- **2001-01-26** — The 2001 Gujarat earthquake. A quake struck western India on Republic Day, killing around 20,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f094d073-6640-4ddb-a858-36b8a2046dba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGxTGm1s-s0
### 2002
- **2002-11-03** — The 2002 Reventador eruption. Ecuador's Reventador volcano erupted violently in 2002, dusting Quito in ash. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e27902cd-a005-4e32-ad53-8337acebe9de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDxv0CgNaZI
### 2003
- **2003-08-16** — The 2003 Okanagan Mountain fire. A wildfire forced the evacuation of Kelowna, British Columbia, destroying hundreds of homes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c0b3be7a-8691-40c6-88cd-3eaf729bcf22) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsPG8zB-V1E
- **2003-10-25** — The 2003 Cedar Fire. California's Cedar Fire near San Diego was the state's largest wildfire at the time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b3d814a0-939a-4e48-aa1d-acbd9cefe4b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELwHgfYAKS0
### 2004
- **2004-07-01** — The 2004 South Asia floods. Monsoon floods across Bangladesh, India and Nepal submerged vast regions and displaced millions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7f937200-9d25-4eeb-8b6c-a8d8dc3fd614) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJh__IOYWQ
- **2004-08-16** — The Boscastle flash flood. A flash flood tore through the Cornish village of Boscastle in England in 2004, swept cars into the harbour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7ec6a556-169a-4e88-a6c5-3b18ce327321) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrb0Ea0OkKU
- **2004-09-16** — Hurricane Jeanne. Jeanne's rains triggered catastrophic floods and mudslides in Haiti, killing over 3,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1fbfd0a1-b6e7-4ba1-9c08-fdf34a705c75) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxrVDdF3vGo
- **2004-12-26** — The tsunami reaches Africa. The 2004 tsunami crossed the entire Indian Ocean, killing people in Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania hours later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b8c67847-48af-4521-80f2-84c1be3114fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfeUXzDl44U
### 2005
- **2005-01-01** — The 2005 Caribbean bleaching. A marine heatwave in 2005 caused catastrophic coral bleaching across the Caribbean, killing much of the region's reef. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4e7db2c3-4a15-4b0c-b642-d4341d3db986) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnzPK4yO82U
- **2005-01-01** — The 2005 Amazon drought. A once-in-a-century drought dried Amazon tributaries in 2005, a warning of the rainforest's fragility. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5590a50d-da44-4641-8ddf-28b6126b3ce5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DZl9gzFKFo
- **2005-03-28** — The 2005 Nias earthquake. A great aftershock of the 2004 megaquake struck Nias island off Sumatra, killing over 1,300. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/403ad9cd-e656-440f-9e86-79fdddfb4acb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqJwI1AJUDs
- **2005-07-26** — The 2005 Mumbai floods. Nearly a metre of rain fell on Mumbai in a day in 2005, paralysing the megacity. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0350c8fa-5dac-47ae-9ad9-6f1b28ff3b7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSjIf0duLWw
- **2005-08-29** — The flooding of New Orleans. When Katrina's surge broke the levees, 80% of New Orleans flooded, trapping thousands on rooftops. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8d2482d8-5def-4ad8-a249-9e3f07116c83) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEhW3-TuRpk
- **2005-08-29** — Hurricane Katrina makes landfall. Katrina's winds and surge hammered the Mississippi and Louisiana coast before the levees failed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9a01b645-35d7-4dae-9fa2-5fd64a312468) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLK_GuiqW9w
- **2005-08-29** — Hurricane Katrina. Katrina's storm surge broke the levees of New Orleans, drowning 80% of the city and killing over 1,800 in a catastrophe of both nature and failed response. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e56267e7-611f-489c-be40-4b545a751d82) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hWrDZ_mQgA
- **2005-09-24** — Hurricane Rita. Weeks after Katrina, Rita struck the Texas-Louisiana border and triggered a chaotic mass evacuation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/24908bcc-fef4-4570-8b09-45b1f4b8d47f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC7wHvrhFPE
- **2005-10-08** — The Hattian Bala landslide. The 2005 Kashmir quake triggered a huge landslide at Hattian Bala that dammed rivers and buried a village. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/33855cfb-7d30-4f85-808a-f9d1d47a80d5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLKaY2XoXH4
- **2005-10-08** — The 2005 Kashmir earthquake. A magnitude 7.6 quake devastated Pakistani-administered Kashmir, killing over 87,000 in the Himalayan foothills. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bc96e77c-5292-4ed2-8b2d-a7d31f128baa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C66ZmDAIpUA
- **2005-10-19** — Hurricane Wilma. The most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded by pressure, Wilma struck the Yucatán and Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d9c69c46-e6c7-494c-b342-ff3a9ea1b3f4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN8UoYyRNug
### 2006
- **2006-01-11** — The Alaska volcano eruptions. Alaska's Aleutian arc — Augustine, Redoubt, Bogoslof — erupts often, threatening aviation across the North Pacific. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/955da54b-c148-4552-898b-e43268ed59f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CN-EGuCBUg
- **2006-02-17** — The 2006 Southern Leyte landslide. A rain-soaked mountainside buried the village of Guinsaugon in the Philippines, killing over 1,100. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/db2a6122-d358-4227-870b-a50a7c8875af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN51jqOEO3k
- **2006-05-27** — The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake. An earthquake struck near Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing nearly 6,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/69a0dae8-0bec-45f1-bf45-d7e17366ba93) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHyJS-9N8nI
- **2006-07-17** — The 2006 Java tsunami. A tsunami struck the southern coast of Java, Indonesia, catching beachgoers by surprise. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/af32a91a-d08b-490f-a479-b879febfd3d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXT7r_8oDWQ
- **2006-11-30** — Typhoon Durian (Reming). Typhoon Durian's rains triggered deadly volcanic mudflows off Mayon in the Philippines in 2006. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/76d3090b-1e31-4e42-b2e9-dcf102751a71) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuZA_1n8cPM
### 2007
- **2007-01-01** — The Syrian drought. A years-long drought from 2006 drove farmers off the land in Syria, a stress that fed the later uprising. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0035c377-1bac-4bdc-b57c-3e09eb469104) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYbqWx_bho
- **2007-01-01** — Australian red dust storms. Enormous red dust storms periodically blow off Australia's dry interior and engulf coastal cities. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/864a9441-e665-449a-af09-85e64b3aa109) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esz6ne9x9yM
- **2007-01-18** — Windstorm Kyrill. raked northern Europe in 2007 with hurricane-force gusts, shutting down whole countries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a9f3540f-b27a-4109-93a2-afeba497a74e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg6wN3S9HeM
- **2007-02-01** — The Salang Pass avalanches. Afghanistan's Salang Pass tunnel and road, a Soviet-built lifeline, is repeatedly buried by avalanches. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4ce64f88-9c24-42ba-aff2-ac49fc9b4fc1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5heynJej_RI
- **2007-02-23** — The 2007 Guatemala City sinkhole. A vast sinkhole opened in Guatemala City, swallowing homes and killing several people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1200a414-12b5-4cb4-bf8b-d882b54db37b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx4Z1BHz0Wk
- **2007-04-02** — The 2007 Solomon Islands tsunami. An earthquake sent a tsunami into the Solomon Islands, lifting reefs out of the sea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/47dd9164-c231-4c64-bc38-fcfa7f77c4cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zArVr7PGg
- **2007-05-04** — The Greensburg tornado. An EF5 tornado destroyed 95% of Greensburg, Kansas, which rebuilt itself as a green town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/554c5f80-a45d-4da3-aa71-16d95a98f9af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8pDRogNJSE
- **2007-06-01** — The 2007 UK floods. Summer downpours flooded large parts of England in 2007, submerging Gloucestershire and Yorkshire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3009ac9d-c35a-4521-bc69-aad397e2a56e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCvsYzhPg_s
- **2007-06-06** — Cyclone Gonu. the strongest on record in the Arabian Sea, struck Oman and Iran in 2007. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d6e8cad8-c663-4418-875c-b66e6215ee2a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6esgZZg0Vk0
- **2007-07-28** — The Berezniki sinkholes. Giant sinkholes over a collapsing potash mine have been swallowing parts of the Russian city of Berezniki for years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7603150d-f416-42fb-8f47-a1a843909f68) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOpHnxQrGtw
- **2007-08-24** — The 2007 Greek wildfires. Wildfires swept the Peloponnese in Greece's deadliest fire season, killing over 80. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ebb39bec-dc72-4ec7-9a01-1a956fd5e7ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cYAAhpO7Xo
- **2007-11-15** — Cyclone Sidr. struck Bangladesh in 2007, killing thousands despite a huge evacuation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6a051bfd-3879-4bbf-875d-2cdc5a26f020) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQDk70ae0Z0
### 2008
- **2008-01-01** — The amphibian chytrid pandemic. A deadly fungus has driven dozens of frog species to extinction across the Americas and Australia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/77b57cd2-c107-4bfc-9510-2362583ca7e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-5XXlqL1O4
- **2008-01-01** — The 2008 Afghanistan blizzard. An extreme cold wave and blizzards killed over 900 people and hundreds of thousands of livestock across Afghanistan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bf7012ad-07ee-4112-a773-9b7eef0620c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVGen45jNAA
- **2008-01-10** — The 1915 Avezzano earthquake. An earthquake destroyed Avezzano in central Italy, killing over 30,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5ac0f83f-cfac-429b-8170-fd573763beb5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PWEouaNVic
- **2008-01-25** — The 2008 Chinese winter storms. Ice storms paralysed southern and central China during the Lunar New Year travel rush of 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c44a540b-e04e-4592-af30-e4ac1c30947d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow5cYTGDpRc
- **2008-02-05** — The 2008 Super Tuesday outbreak. A tornado outbreak struck the U.S. South on the 2008 primary-election 'Super Tuesday', killing 57. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6e2ebf56-cb64-4f21-96db-14b4610d06a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMqY8LPSfhI
- **2008-05-02** — Cyclone Nargis. struck Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta, killing an estimated 138,000 as the ruling junta blocked international aid. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4955dc36-5557-4544-8816-34e50255b934) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXAF8AjgiWM
- **2008-05-02** — The 2008 Chaitén eruption. A dormant Chilean volcano erupted without warning in 2008, forcing the evacuation of a whole town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/63aca086-2a7d-4729-b315-6b743826310a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri17yygw0tg
- **2008-05-07** — The Daisetta sinkhole. A sinkhole rapidly grew to 275 metres wide in Daisetta, Texas, swallowing vehicles and oil tanks over a salt dome. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/037bca91-c9ce-4a4e-93e4-66f82187f5d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEvCP7TXIEU
- **2008-05-12** — The 2008 Sichuan earthquake. A magnitude 7.9 quake struck Sichuan, China, killing nearly 90,000 and collapsing schools across the province. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/dd23c66d-4822-4e1c-919d-158362da1cb0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsyS5Zj8rvs
- **2008-05-25** — The Parkersburg tornado. An EF5 tornado destroyed Parkersburg, Iowa, in 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b7cc50c1-de87-4983-89e3-4a293d1e75c6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzihjnqY0YA
- **2008-08-03** — The 2008 Hautmont tornado. A rare, violent tornado struck the northern French town of Hautmont in 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/06a6e0f8-4390-4975-b122-45ff3eb08aef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifac6mu_2xw
- **2008-08-18** — Tropical Storm Fay. set a record by making landfall in Florida four separate times in 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c11668d2-3ed9-40c6-af37-15280b2ae151) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKtiXgiVefA
- **2008-09-13** — Hurricane Ike. 's surge devastated Galveston and the Texas coast in 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4b2d4080-9058-4e8b-81d9-1dacd225bd3b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNGe-RrPuBw
### 2009
- **2009-01-01** — Avalanches in the British hills. Even Scotland's mountains kill climbers in avalanches most winters, a little-known hazard of the UK. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/121c5f6f-b536-4f6d-94d5-e11241bf1ce3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8YzRU8UTto
- **2009-01-01** — The giant Nomura's jellyfish. Blooms of car-sized Nomura's jellyfish periodically clog nets and capsize boats in the Sea of Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/38a178f1-c973-4e35-a24f-5b3b4a7e7bec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZT-_VbKBuc
- **2009-02-07** — Australia's Black Saturday. Bushfires on a day of catastrophic heat killed 173 people in Victoria, Australia — the country's deadliest bushfire disaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1962d6e7-be74-4351-a34b-f3a010903658) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuYZRttpD9Y
- **2009-04-06** — The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. A quake struck the medieval Italian city of L'Aquila, killing 309 and later leading to a controversial scientists' trial. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5753d5ee-65c5-4079-b468-61efe2f35864) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpsy_FiB8E
- **2009-08-08** — Typhoon Morakot. dumped record rain on Taiwan in 2009, burying the village of Xiaolin in a landslide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1f9e7009-5e7a-477a-86b6-0eda0831409f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e1_WnHCjQw
- **2009-09-23** — The 2009 Australian dust storm. A vast red dust storm blew across eastern Australia and turned Sydney's sky a Martian red. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5ebdbd83-e6f5-4cab-85f9-0f568ca5588f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL4K-vqV8v0
- **2009-09-26** — Typhoon Ketsana floods Manila. Typhoon Ketsana dumped a month's rain on Manila in hours in 2009, submerging the Philippine capital. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5b7d8f8a-700d-4d16-83e6-6477ee716ea7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6oqZUon4m8
- **2009-09-29** — The 2009 Samoa tsunami. An earthquake sent tsunami waves into Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, killing over 180. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/22042872-09d8-4d9e-ba02-6585d901b887) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhqS_7tk3Ec
- **2009-09-30** — The 2009 Padang earthquake. An earthquake struck Padang on Sumatra in 2009, collapsing buildings and killing over 1,100. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e70d7969-bc94-4ec8-b6a7-545f021133d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjJ3UFVhUA
- **2009-11-19** — The 2009 Cumbria floods. Record rainfall flooded Cockermouth and Workington in England's Lake District. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9b4868d2-cb51-4356-b8fb-13faed98ab6e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIZvhNBEzPc
### 2010
- **2010-01-01** — The emerald ash borer invasion. An invasive beetle from Asia has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees across North America since the 2000s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4f9df00f-a360-4a78-8474-3f6e39eda014) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79_-IsU5cu4
- **2010-01-01** — The mountain pine beetle epidemic. A beetle outbreak, fuelled by warming winters, has killed vast tracts of pine forest across western North America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8bd431c0-92d0-4cb1-ab4c-c7d5c418ae96) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrsBvvFGkY0
- **2010-01-01** — Mongolia's dzud disasters. The 'dzud' — a summer drought followed by a brutal winter — periodically kills millions of livestock and threatens nomadic herders. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a5d64676-18c5-4af9-8fd0-d67335054ed8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEBJz1CRes
- **2010-01-01** — The Sarisariñama sinkholes. Venezuela's remote tepui plateaus hold vast, near-perfect natural sinkholes with unique ecosystems on their floors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d709cb1e-d7c6-4379-b9ff-3db3d99555c6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWs-5ec0Om4
- **2010-01-05** — The Attabad landslide-avalanche. A massive landslide dammed Pakistan's Hunza River in 2010, forming a lake that drowned villages upstream. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/552feb1f-8847-4f34-8d53-747a3704d7c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2RD6GQboQM
- **2010-01-12** — The 2010 Haiti earthquake. A magnitude 7.0 quake struck near Port-au-Prince, killing an estimated 100,000-300,000 people and devastating the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6a20f863-29db-4731-92a0-62a50490e994) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhLUMNdO8ic
- **2010-01-12** — The 2010 Haiti earthquake. An earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, killing well over 100,000 in one of the deadliest disasters of the century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7033b2f1-bf18-4cbd-9513-3f64c9d6bce1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joHfSGBsOtg
- **2010-02-05** — The 2010 'Snowmageddon'. Back-to-back blizzards buried the U.S. Mid-Atlantic in record snow in February 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/add3d4ec-1e48-4f8a-b38f-b52e7c8ed4fd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITPkZEvoJoc
- **2010-02-27** — The 2010 Chile earthquake. A magnitude 8.8 quake and tsunami struck central Chile, killing over 500. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/325efeb3-4903-4ea9-9be6-e85eec1048ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Qgn48Q-_E
- **2010-02-27** — The 2010 Chile tsunami. The great 2010 Chile earthquake sent a tsunami that devastated coastal towns like Constitución and Dichato. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/aa2e47a5-0290-40d6-bda2-e1fb9b20088f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2VcVCqbEoc
- **2010-03-01** — The 2010 Bududa landslide. Landslides buried villages on the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda in 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5767c457-b4e9-4b50-8a1c-dda6f59f7a6a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUA8Bqht7PE
- **2010-03-19** — Asian dust storms. Vast spring dust storms from the Gobi routinely sweep across China, Korea and Japan, choking cities in yellow dust. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c3489c08-9f75-433a-9160-4d6fe9bf3a29) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWO_C3xa83U
- **2010-03-20** — The Tri-State Tornado. The deadliest tornado in U.S. history tore 219 miles across Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/beeb5c9e-50bf-455f-a32a-e8b013c205cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3dbojUnl5I
- **2010-04-14** — The 2010 Yushu earthquake. A quake struck the Tibetan plateau of Qinghai, China, killing around 2,700. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/55c93054-4465-4983-ae38-6e9cc5507c5e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xohQks_Wago
- **2010-04-14** — Eyjafjallajökull grounds Europe. An eruption under an Icelandic glacier sent ash across Europe, grounding air travel for a week — modern civilisation halted by a volcano. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7168ff24-a44a-4554-a964-4e97752785b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyZHZhYDWNk
- **2010-04-25** — Giant hailstorms. Hailstones the size of grapefruit have smashed through roofs and windshields — some of the largest ever recorded fell on the U.S. Plains. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3bbf9733-a340-45f1-b995-adfe60545457) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTXBVR3NFU
- **2010-05-01** — The 2010 South Asia heat. A brutal pre-monsoon heatwave pushed temperatures above 48°C across India and Pakistan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2529deb7-4adb-4a46-85c6-9a9c62f44368) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyAIX12T95I
- **2010-05-01** — The 2010 Nashville flood. Record rain flooded Nashville, Tennessee, submerging the Grand Ole Opry and downtown. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fd8d2d02-4e3c-4723-88bb-64a0014fe89f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6ikbBYN0s
- **2010-05-30** — The 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole. A near-perfect circular sinkhole 20 metres wide and 60 metres deep swallowed a three-storey building in Guatemala City. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/23325d8a-e0e8-4662-aaf3-b2f4901ba928) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udwm0Cajpcg
- **2010-06-08** — The 1984 Barneveld tornado. A nighttime F5 tornado nearly wiped the Wisconsin village of Barneveld off the map in 1984. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/31ae1b24-1bfb-4867-bc0f-8f061824693d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R47M3qRt_Lo
- **2010-07-01** — The 2010 Russian heatwave & fires. An unprecedented heatwave set Russia's peatlands ablaze, smothering Moscow in smoke and killing an estimated 55,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a61e1d11-aa83-40b9-be59-c9b409e52016) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEYrxCqsFZ0
- **2010-07-23** — The record Vivian, South Dakota hailstone. The largest hailstone ever recovered in the U.S. — 20 cm across — fell at Vivian, South Dakota, in 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b84da089-422b-4506-9d22-6be8b1cb7dfe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTNBahte73I
- **2010-08-01** — The 2010 Pakistan floods. Monsoon floods put a fifth of Pakistan underwater, affecting 20 million people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c2211e43-bc1d-4976-954d-efd752e76a20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzWVoXkVYaQ
- **2010-08-08** — The 2010 Zhouqu mudslide. A massive mudslide buried part of Zhouqu county in Gansu, China, killing over 1,700. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c63d4a28-cf1a-4298-b273-99167bdb6dd2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocareXfvJUg
- **2010-08-08** — The 2010 Zhouqu mudslide. Mudslides swept through Zhouqu in China's Gansu province, killing over 1,700. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/eeceeb97-a23e-44be-bb2e-cbb835b59079) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2TmLWnkX9I
- **2010-10-26** — The 2010 Merapi eruption. Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupted violently, killing over 350 including its guardian 'gatekeeper'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5efdb283-9f40-45db-882f-94788a3dedab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv0aVzjg2X4
- **2010-12-01** — The 2010 British big freeze. The coldest December in a century froze Britain, closing airports and stranding travellers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4b5c0ce6-4c4b-4fc2-b488-c4cdb4595aae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyqFGKKcGw
### 2011
- **2011-01-01** — Iceland's waiting volcanoes. Iceland sits on a rift of restless volcanoes — Katla, Grímsvötn, Bárðarbunga — whose eruptions can ground world aviation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d4c5ee1e-9455-41ed-8ff2-93fafb835487) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQCvoeqrMDw
- **2011-01-10** — The 2011 Queensland floods. An 'inland tsunami' of floodwater tore through Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, then swamped Brisbane. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2699ce4f-6c7d-4c83-83be-ba541e8c1982) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOxeA9m6t70
- **2011-01-11** — Blood rain and freak precipitation. History records rains of blood, fish and frogs — real phenomena caused by dust, waterspouts and updrafts lofting matter into the clouds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/85dec6f8-6446-4c37-a81c-bbea7184b38e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR05r6KfDKw
- **2011-01-11** — The 2011 Rio de Janeiro floods. Floods and mudslides in the mountains above Rio killed over 900, Brazil's worst weather disaster to that point. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bd0dd09b-ccd0-4cec-b849-4713cf15c5a1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue29ZRtVKqI
- **2011-02-22** — The 2011 Christchurch earthquake. A shallow quake devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 and destroying much of the city centre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6adcb69b-ff9c-42ac-90ae-f4e808e8ad5f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB_7pH1DFa8
- **2011-02-27** — The 2011 La Paz landslide. A massive slow-moving landslide destroyed neighbourhoods of La Paz, Bolivia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b8a4599d-86c4-443b-b17a-2dd0e2d05acc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY89Ahn3cMU
- **2011-03-11** — The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. The magnitude 9.0 quake off Japan — the most powerful in the country's history — shifted the Earth on its axis. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/528566b3-a62c-4d9a-94fe-2debcd688017) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLEK1LCHbnA
- **2011-03-11** — The 2011 Tōhoku tsunami. A magnitude 9.0 quake off Japan sent a wall of water over the coast, killing nearly 20,000 and triggering the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cb6721ac-f66d-4cab-8f5d-16917e8a43b1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je1lW4JTSWg
- **2011-04-27** — The 2011 Hackleburg tornado. The deadliest tornado of the 2011 Super Outbreak, an EF5, tore across northern Alabama, killing 72. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3b5597f1-e940-4fd0-905b-5c939e53938d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gU56kvh8hY
- **2011-04-27** — The Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado. A massive tornado tore through Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama, filmed live on television. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4678fa1e-49b3-400c-8153-25e21bdf84f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zueSXys1VtU
- **2011-04-27** — The 2011 Super Outbreak. The largest tornado outbreak in history spawned 360 tornadoes across the U.S. South in three days, killing over 320. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f4f82b53-e724-41ba-ad47-8d17068934a5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFe7eDK16fE
- **2011-05-22** — The 2011 Joplin tornado. An EF5 tornado tore directly through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 — the deadliest single U.S. tornado since modern records began. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9c780f48-d3dc-4113-9b48-7151dd81ccab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNVuCXVKkLQ
- **2011-06-04** — The 2011 Puyehue eruption. Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Caulle erupted in 2011, grounding flights across the southern hemisphere. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b6226d89-5085-4893-9efb-5f630a496c46) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpF1uZmhOhc
- **2011-06-12** — The 2011 Nabro eruption. A little-known volcano on the Eritrea–Ethiopia border erupted in 2011, one of the largest of the decade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/520f04b2-e5db-4993-b2de-739ad9809dd9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXDoeM2Mue8
- **2011-07-05** — The 2011 Phoenix haboob. A mile-high wall of dust engulfed Phoenix, Arizona, one of the most dramatic haboobs ever filmed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b8a9da28-342b-4674-8e84-66fcad0ce8db) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGXA3JaBhso
- **2011-07-05** — The 2011 Phoenix haboob. A towering wall of dust — a haboob — over 1.5 km high rolled over Phoenix, Arizona, swallowing the city in minutes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/dbf385d2-2fa1-47fd-bbb9-46654d78e8ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHmM5v9QmIk
- **2011-07-11** — The 1984 Ontake landslide. The 1984 Nagano earthquake triggered a huge debris avalanche off Mount Ontake in Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0607220c-374c-49c8-b497-adc2e22813b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls17-O7dovU
- **2011-07-20** — The 2011 Horn of Africa famine. The worst drought in 60 years caused famine across Somalia, killing an estimated 260,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/634b8e0b-316d-45d8-b21a-6b695892c259) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB7jUMJGycw
- **2011-07-27** — The 2011 Seoul floods. Record rain triggered floods and landslides across Seoul, South Korea, in 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/304850d1-645b-4201-979f-1781a517afc5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epEe7adZcQY
- **2011-08-01** — The 2011 Texas drought. The worst one-year drought in Texas history withered crops and fuelled record wildfires. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/52e55dc2-3285-44b1-b2d3-6e416d54c65f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKjVlANZCc0
- **2011-10-01** — The 2011 Thailand floods. Months of monsoon flooding inundated much of Thailand including Bangkok, killing over 800 and disrupting global electronics supply chains. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a451cd31-6f4e-43a9-a45b-f112ac705f75) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfQuNfadMzM
- **2011-11-10** — The American chestnut blight. A fungus wiped out billions of American chestnut trees in the early 20th century, remaking eastern forests. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d8b9c96a-feb6-4678-aafb-40cf4c4705d7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgbedXnbfw
### 2012
- **2012-01-01** — California's 2012-16 drought. A severe multi-year drought forced California's first-ever mandatory statewide water restrictions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/06e7de1d-8bd0-43f1-82b7-f0aeb7aafedb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OrzPKc34hg
- **2012-01-01** — The reef and the starfish. Crown-of-thorns starfish, fed by farm runoff, have chewed through vast stretches of Pacific reef. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/32e4ee54-0b87-4536-8641-48ea48737266) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tG60zUFW-A
- **2012-01-01** — White-nose syndrome in bats. A cold-loving fungus has killed millions of hibernating bats across North America since 2006. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4d597fe3-4512-4bd0-bca5-8aafaca2a6c7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8vGvNi4xGU
- **2012-01-01** — Collapsing salt and gypsum karst. Where water dissolves salt, gypsum or limestone underground, the surface can suddenly give way — a global hazard from Iraq to the Urals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ff4c3076-6d1a-470b-aa69-1cd0a1f51b66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMDJoaeOZ8w
- **2012-01-27** — The 2012 European cold wave. An extreme cold wave killed over 650 across Europe and froze the Danube and Venice's canals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/db25a18b-6b55-4f2b-9c8d-c8edfc740852) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxJUx3WWkF8
- **2012-04-21** — The 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville outbreak. A tornado outbreak devastated Tupelo, Mississippi (Elvis's hometown) and Gainesville, Georgia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2b7d6078-887e-4701-87ad-8b4b0878a209) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnK17-DjEgo
- **2012-04-21** — The 1965 Palm Sunday outbreak. An outbreak of 47 tornadoes struck the U.S. Midwest, killing over 250 and spurring modern warning systems. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d8e14068-ec86-4edb-b39d-05c551d0420f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Z99gnW2c8
- **2012-04-25** — The 1908 Tunguska event. A meteor air-burst flattened 2,000 square km of Siberian forest — the largest impact event in recorded history, though no crater was found. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0fe94e12-d081-4f2d-8363-b11f98d5f0fc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSA7KkhiDy4
- **2012-05-20** — The 2012 Emilia earthquakes. Quakes struck the Po Valley of northern Italy, killing 27 and toppling historic towers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/36659265-5c0e-4616-9e62-57faa6853806) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8nx9me0ADI
- **2012-06-29** — The 2012 Mid-Atlantic derecho. A derecho — a vast, fast wall of straight-line wind — raced from the Midwest to the Atlantic, leaving millions without power. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/26eb5bdd-61b7-43fa-868e-888bbc7944f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5GuUFTiLP0
- **2012-08-03** — The Bayou Corne sinkhole. A collapsing salt cavern created a growing, bubbling sinkhole in the Louisiana bayou that forced a community to evacuate for good. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/36bd094f-75f7-4530-988c-8284210cefb7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtlcRKoMQdU
- **2012-08-03** — The Bayou Corne sinkhole. A failed salt cavern opened a bubbling, tree-swallowing sinkhole in Louisiana that forced a town's evacuation for years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3bde5342-294c-44ae-b002-e9bf9af7abfc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juw4qh5oP78
- **2012-10-29** — Hurricane Sandy. Superstorm Sandy flooded New York City's subways and streets and battered the U.S. East Coast, a $70 billion warning about coastal cities. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/38560879-c9ec-4bde-9b3d-79fa7ffaef1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtb-OK4bEs4
- **2012-12-04** — Typhoon Bopha. devastated the southern Philippine island of Mindanao in 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7fd5f987-2ef6-4738-b6ba-7a952e955cfc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8LmiONE5v0
### 2013
- **2013-01-01** — Jellyfish blooms. Massive jellyfish blooms have clogged power-plant intakes and fishing nets worldwide, a growing marine disruption. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/51f170cb-8a4d-43a0-ab46-2f1bd9da0d9e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdZZ01VSync
- **2013-01-01** — China's factory-floor sinkholes. Rapid groundwater pumping and construction have opened deadly sinkholes beneath Chinese cities and workshops. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8892277e-3848-4d9d-869b-f35b7ccdc03e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8iCXbfenI
- **2013-01-01** — The Sahara's dust engine. The Bodélé Depression in Chad is the single largest source of dust on Earth, feeding storms worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d672fd28-8375-4577-875d-94abf0ecf804) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBExG9auoU
- **2013-01-01** — The Madagascar locust plague. A locust plague swept Madagascar in 2013, threatening the food of half the island's people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e5bce554-85a3-4b16-85a1-2295472ffea9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-A78Ya4krc
- **2013-02-28** — The Seffner sinkhole. A sinkhole opened beneath a house in Seffner, Florida, swallowing a sleeping man in one of the state's notorious sinkhole collapses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/55db1c7a-f709-45cc-a991-a83793804c6d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_tv_lGXwOQ
- **2013-03-22** — The 2013 Brahmanbaria tornado. A tornado struck the Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh, killing dozens. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/87dbdd6e-cd80-470b-b872-6daca527ccef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijt_2xN7lwg
- **2013-04-20** — The 2013 Lushan earthquake. An earthquake struck Sichuan, China, near the 2008 disaster zone, killing about 200. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a8b08c42-e16e-4b80-8ceb-1689d7de84bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQedYPy_exk
- **2013-05-20** — The 2013 Moore tornado. An EF5 tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, again, destroying two schools and killing 24. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1045ff16-a582-434a-9d74-84446ffbf886) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0rClQM8Rt4
- **2013-05-31** — The 2013 El Reno tornado. The widest tornado ever recorded — 4.2 km across — struck near El Reno, Oklahoma, killing storm chasers for the first time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/55978913-6958-4706-af07-63b42c926164) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06VeZFmFa-Q
- **2013-05-31** — The El Reno tornado. The widest tornado ever recorded — 2.6 miles across — struck near El Reno, Oklahoma, killing veteran storm chasers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f250ae88-30f1-4302-b2af-f64889ef7306) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsEYQjULO9g
- **2013-06-01** — Sea star wasting disease. From 2013 a mysterious wasting disease dissolved billions of starfish along North America's Pacific coast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5823e6f5-c4ba-4edc-b259-7c2336331bd7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_I_B6U0GtI
- **2013-06-01** — Sea star wasting disease. A mysterious wasting disease dissolved billions of starfish along the Pacific coast, collapsing kelp forests. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/772c376d-5e25-43d2-b34e-e1b7560545f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLi4ZavwTkg
- **2013-06-05** — The 2002 Central European floods. Record floods on the Elbe and Danube inundated Prague, Dresden and much of Central Europe in 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3d7598cf-5bb2-4d78-9a5e-2008cbf805b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGxT8ZOdFDI
- **2013-06-16** — The 2013 North India floods. Cloudbursts and flash floods devastated the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, killing over 5,000 pilgrims and locals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/93cf13eb-2575-48db-b7c4-d0b092889aeb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxz1hrG6F-I
- **2013-07-01** — The Andean cold snaps. Sudden 'friaje' cold snaps freeze the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia, killing livestock and children. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/81d04397-9ac1-452d-89c0-919e00b2cf82) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14cCq8uxwn8
- **2013-07-25** — Appalachian mine subsidence. A century of underground coal mining leaves Appalachian towns sinking into hidden voids. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8c0e6ccd-27d1-4411-93c0-5408d7ae3a7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGdn1FIO9CY
- **2013-08-12** — The Disney resort sinkhole. A sinkhole swallowed part of a resort near Disney World in Florida in 2013, filmed as it collapsed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/378737d1-bb4b-4b97-bb2b-5b9bc531f014) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z02coWd2ixI
- **2013-08-22** — The Siberian cold poles. In Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk, Siberia, winter temperatures plunge below -60°C, the coldest inhabited places on Earth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/36e9edd8-39d6-46b4-8f0f-a15239e822b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPbWfLb-uMA
- **2013-09-11** — The 2013 Colorado floods. A week of rain caused catastrophic flooding along Colorado's Front Range around Boulder. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/15b11cf6-a8e7-4fc6-b9dd-6793add761f0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAQy9MAWIm4
- **2013-10-09** — The 1998 Yangtze floods. Months of flooding along the Yangtze River affected 240 million people in China and killed over 3,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2d4effdd-c22f-4cca-b4ae-7001c56af009) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4RxzvWGSqI
- **2013-10-12** — Cyclone Phailin. A huge cyclone struck India's east coast, but a mass evacuation of a million people kept deaths low. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2ad1f1a4-9164-4cf4-aada-2db2f8e66f80) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOu0ES0tHD4
- **2013-10-15** — The 2013 Bohol earthquake. A quake struck the central Philippines, destroying centuries-old churches and killing over 220. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4868b812-7167-4ccb-9fa6-04f19bc71c9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jwFqf8atrw
- **2013-11-08** — Typhoon Haiyan. One of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, Haiyan devastated the central Philippines with a massive storm surge, killing over 6,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/700c0997-e257-4741-84d9-b2e2a4306abd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-kKckGfyhk
- **2013-11-08** — Surviving Typhoon Haiyan. Survivors filmed the storm surge tearing through Tacloban as they clung to rafters — some of the most harrowing disaster video ever. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/909d7608-2ee6-4f77-8a00-f6ebed752b43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxqVn-loOsc
- **2013-11-18** — The 2013 Sardinia floods. Cyclone Cleopatra caused deadly flash floods across the Italian island of Sardinia in 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1f45d0f2-e7c4-4767-ade8-fee61eed071b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ZDzQ5wnPI
### 2014
- **2014-01-01** — 'The Blob' marine heatwave. A vast patch of abnormally warm Pacific water — 'the Blob' — disrupted the food web from Alaska to California from 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6b011336-8bb4-41da-ba77-6c24cc7ea3a4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqjA1fehse8
- **2014-01-01** — The cane toad invasion. Introduced to Australia in 1935, cane toads spread as a poisonous plague, killing native predators. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ee4f6fe6-fca1-43bb-a7e7-43c10b63c1a3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYcl0xxU5_s
- **2014-01-06** — The 2014 polar vortex. A dip in the polar vortex plunged the U.S. into record-breaking cold in January 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cfa81f51-e9e2-4a85-a4b6-cde4d8047fa3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZdmDt5kD3Y
- **2014-01-28** — 'Snowmageddon' in Atlanta. A few centimetres of snow and ice paralysed Atlanta in 2014, stranding drivers on highways overnight. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/023f3fec-c8eb-4a60-91ee-b133d1e9b679) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5szd7HE4_o
- **2014-02-12** — The Corvette Museum sinkhole. A sinkhole opened inside the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky, swallowing eight cars on camera. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9cd0d87f-6e88-434b-bc8f-31402f7ebce0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkfJ6u0Zak
- **2014-03-22** — The 2014 Oso mudslide. A massive hillside collapse buried a rural neighbourhood near Oso, Washington, killing 43 — the deadliest landslide in U.S. history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3611a189-a187-4a65-97cd-d1132a1f189e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pRcgBkL57o
- **2014-03-25** — The 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami. A landslide into Lituya Bay, Alaska, generated the highest wave ever recorded — 524 metres — stripping the shoreline bare. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5d540694-5bb9-4752-8427-e67f5cb3ea17) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGilljSMtm4
- **2014-04-18** — The 2014 Everest avalanche. An ice avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall killed 16 Sherpas — the deadliest single day on Everest until the next year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f701d7db-486c-4c0e-94e4-fe1a22b6d196) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFvThMDwIZc
- **2014-04-27** — The 2014 Vilonia tornado. A violent tornado struck Vilonia and Mayflower, Arkansas, in 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a5720815-b190-425b-a1e9-beffc58b4559) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HTD3kTXP-w
- **2014-05-02** — The Badakhshan landslide. A landslide buried much of the village of Aab Barik in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province in 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8f0e6043-6039-4414-bb3b-21bcfffa4f5e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbA5TjGGnwk
- **2014-05-13** — The 2014 Balkan floods. Record rain flooded Bosnia and Serbia, triggering landslides that disturbed old war minefields. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c7f1724c-57d9-4177-85e1-d0f75103481f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F4GmQpZNAE
- **2014-06-15** — The 1997-98 super El Niño. One of the strongest El Niños on record reshaped weather worldwide and bleached reefs across the planet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c399ab24-f791-4efb-bb49-64e004c8b3c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kcyYsgAyvY
- **2014-06-16** — The Pilger twin tornadoes. Two violent tornadoes touched down side by side near Pilger, Nebraska, in 2014, a rare and dramatic sight. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1222e9f9-49a1-4114-a448-e38e84733a6a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWCmX34bN4A
- **2014-07-01** — The Siberian methane craters. Vast craters have blown open in the Siberian permafrost, apparently from methane bursting out of thawing ground. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/dee015b5-aed1-4663-910a-7d66944985fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzwM-aSBX4k
- **2014-08-20** — The 2014 Hiroshima landslides. Torrential rain triggered dozens of debris flows across the hills above Hiroshima, Japan, killing 74. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b33e654a-5151-4b44-b14b-756ac9fea1a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wT7PeNgvIs
- **2014-09-20** — The 1982-83 El Niño. One of the strongest El Niños on record caused droughts, floods and the first major recorded coral bleaching worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/761ba088-aefd-491d-b8fa-cc1cfbe8c345) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyVSca_oMQE
- **2014-09-27** — The Mount Ontake eruption. A sudden steam eruption of Japan's Mount Ontake killed 63 hikers on a clear autumn day, filmed as it happened. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c29e8461-35cd-4bcc-a7fb-411a45647dc5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtkoLxqUNQ
- **2014-10-25** — The Sahel drought & Ethiopian famine. Prolonged drought across the Sahel caused the 1983-85 Ethiopian famine that killed hundreds of thousands and inspired Live Aid. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a3c3361f-3e20-454b-9cf3-051e1b0e739d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SVByPiF6iQ
- **2014-11-25** — The Ourika Valley flood. A flash flood tore through Morocco's Ourika Valley in 1995, sweeping away tourists and villages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ab9be62f-57cb-4b69-a54b-cc498a3be2ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWkcFoIeGh8
### 2015
- **2015-01-01** — The São Paulo water crisis. A historic drought nearly emptied the reservoirs of São Paulo, Brazil's largest city, in 2014-15. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/00a73676-aaf6-46ba-b6ea-5e0426af19a5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAq3n3hHgM
- **2015-01-01** — The red imported fire ant. Invasive fire ants have spread across the U.S. South, Australia and China, delivering painful, sometimes deadly stings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1dfb0352-6a5c-4ffc-9416-0389064ba85c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctzt8BkS_O0
- **2015-01-01** — The varroa mite and colony collapse. disorder have devastated honeybee populations worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/65ca5f29-3684-4828-9613-2fa9811d290f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU7TWNZigCg
- **2015-01-01** — The Solikamsk sinkhole. A flooded potash mine keeps opening a growing sinkhole beside the Russian city of Solikamsk. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8fec509f-75b0-4024-b36f-b6b67558f604) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah__xs8mUG0
- **2015-01-01** — Marine die-offs and the warming sea. Warming oceans have driven mass die-offs of seabirds, sea lions, whales and fish along the Pacific coast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b39326e6-b7b0-4024-87ef-2544f157a627) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP6L5QPT2Z8
- **2015-01-01** — 'The Blob' marine heatwave. A vast patch of abnormally warm Pacific water — 'The Blob' — disrupted marine life from 2013-16, starving seabirds and sea lions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e1cc9a0d-95b9-4853-ba4f-a005cc49690c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiCyv4BTf_s
- **2015-01-01** — The sea lamprey invasion. Invasive sea lampreys nearly wiped out the Great Lakes fishery, latching onto fish and draining them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e9492b3f-41f3-450a-86fb-b68ed10e96b6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTKE3fFnU4Q
- **2015-01-01** — Tidal bores. In a few rivers worldwide — the Qiantang in China, the Severn in Britain — the incoming tide forms a wall of water racing upstream. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f1651980-c21e-47bb-87dc-1763774afe38) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ubsxUUB89A
- **2015-01-01** — Ocean acidification. As the sea absorbs carbon dioxide it turns more acidic, dissolving the shells of oysters, corals and plankton. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f8c6af61-5a86-4f3f-afaa-932bfd468aa9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77B4Tkj4jf0
- **2015-01-03** — The 1955 Udall tornado. A nighttime tornado destroyed Udall, Kansas, in 1955, the deadliest in the state's history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/636d7ecf-59e6-46bd-aa42-f2f36704d813) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYKvAX8H6OM
- **2015-01-27** — Thundersnow. A rare phenomenon where a snowstorm produces lightning and thunder, most often in intense winter blizzards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4e84b162-3bdb-488d-a09c-d946593512ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73sADGVoWpE
- **2015-01-27** — The winter of 2015 in Boston. A relentless series of blizzards buried Boston under nearly nine feet of snow in the winter of 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7102d339-8b8c-4e07-9682-f247f6f390ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0adMyuSQgNk
- **2015-02-24** — The 2015 Panjshir avalanches. A series of avalanches struck Afghanistan's Panjshir valley in 2015, killing over 300. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2c0fb8eb-4955-4a27-bbcb-4b1f21074fbc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIyIY7-o_fI
- **2015-03-13** — Cyclone Pam. One of the worst disasters in Pacific history, Cyclone Pam devastated the island nation of Vanuatu. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a45bc42d-37a2-46c1-ab1b-5035a4f26ebe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TM_JKgDELA
- **2015-04-22** — The 2015 Calbuco eruption. Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted spectacularly after decades of dormancy, its ash lit by lightning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a78caf05-cc27-4e4f-b41c-cec04d387599) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddv4DAWNErM
- **2015-04-25** — The 2015 Nepal earthquake. A 7.8 quake struck Nepal, killing nearly 9,000, flattening centuries-old temples in Kathmandu and triggering a deadly avalanche on Everest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1957d82e-f9fc-4b54-a260-66773051e82a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASeOSSD3uqw
- **2015-04-25** — The 2015 Everest base camp avalanche. The Nepal earthquake triggered an avalanche that swept Everest Base Camp, killing at least 22. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4c827dd1-0441-4b67-8b8f-cbb1a5b9fd7b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o03-IEhbaqE
- **2015-05-01** — The 2015 India heatwave. A brutal heatwave across India and Pakistan killed over 3,500, melting roads in Delhi. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/65287162-dc2c-4ede-b2be-f66919004f31) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKYgdugmTgA
- **2015-05-12** — The Nepal aftershock. A major aftershock struck Nepal weeks after the 2015 Gorkha quake, toppling already-weakened buildings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c4e2c883-a4b3-4953-8e37-8bcf0c464ec6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMMvsVHXy0I
- **2015-05-18** — The Salgar landslide. A pre-dawn debris flow buried part of Salgar in Colombia's Antioquia in 2015, killing nearly 100. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/50daafdd-e718-4ffb-830f-4b1670b43a5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwiEdmCKhXw
- **2015-06-01** — The 2015 North Korea drought. A severe drought hit North Korea in 2015, threatening its already fragile food supply. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/91bef4b9-c20e-4371-9d6c-54e126e8f7fe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHrijsYnNHA
- **2015-08-27** — Tropical Storm Erika. 's rains devastated the Caribbean island of Dominica in 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/71bd6936-e44f-4178-bd07-592e8dc9044d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYdsxxRxumI
- **2015-09-07** — The 2015 Middle East dust storm. A vast, unusual dust storm blanketed Syria, Lebanon and Israel in 2015 amid the region's conflict. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3a8dfb83-ce25-4925-9ea5-5ca066bdbf4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgFmcqdez1Q
- **2015-10-04** — The 1997 Indonesian fires. Vast peat and forest fires blanketed Southeast Asia in choking haze in 1997-98. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/67414cd9-7661-4446-a37f-7c2099638926) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQgcs3CJVyg
- **2015-10-24** — The 1990 Plainfield tornado. A rare August F5 struck near Plainfield, Illinois, with no warning, killing 29. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b4746ee5-3e66-4d4d-8564-9c033570a4fe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px3J3g3wXQk
- **2015-11-01** — The 2015-16 southern Africa drought. An El Niño drought scorched southern Africa in 2015-16, leaving millions hungry from Zimbabwe to Malawi. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bc2bad35-9e39-426d-8dd6-a94e9b2542e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHhSmAVTQIw
- **2015-12-01** — The 2015 Chennai floods. The worst floods in a century submerged the Indian city of Chennai in 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cad8f7bf-6f7f-4d1b-a851-f99b6d125a6a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP-yb5iqSR4
### 2016
- **2016-01-01** — The kelp forest collapse. Warming seas and exploding urchin populations have turned lush California kelp forests into barren 'urchin barrens'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/039f0fd8-f91c-4d3a-945c-704796126a34) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI8h23b8KAM
- **2016-01-01** — Florida's sinkhole country. Central Florida's limestone bedrock dissolves to open sinkholes that regularly swallow roads, pools and houses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1455f9ba-4578-4466-9786-a64d79901624) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmeEsgfl7BQ
- **2016-01-01** — The Tasman Sea marine heatwave. A record marine heatwave off Tasmania in 2016 wiped out kelp forests and disrupted fisheries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1aa2af84-7029-4cf9-a754-d8f83d119db9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN6FMuLd3mQ
- **2016-01-01** — Bird and starling superflocks. Enormous flocks — murmurations of starlings, or invasive quelea in Africa — can strip fields and darken skies. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/714fb2eb-a237-4d3b-bb3c-c188d9c20925) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLNDjftRERk
- **2016-01-01** — The Gauteng dolomite sinkholes. Mining and water have dissolved the dolomite under South Africa's Gauteng province, opening sinkholes that swallow homes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8b844f2c-c3ca-4782-99d7-a34cfbba45d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXbdZcmP0l0
- **2016-01-01** — The lionfish invasion. Venomous Indo-Pacific lionfish have invaded the Caribbean and Atlantic, devouring native reef fish. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9f1649d7-b4db-4e46-97ed-83a13401856b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1J2SpQIezs
- **2016-01-01** — The 2016 seabird die-offs. Warm water starved and killed hundreds of thousands of common murres and puffins across the North Pacific. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a87af62c-1490-4777-bbbe-fd61cc1868df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd959MfdmIM
- **2016-01-01** — The screwworm and livestock. The flesh-eating screwworm fly, once eradicated in the U.S., still threatens livestock across the Americas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c8adcb48-cf43-4031-bb11-580a430f371b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOGbSTDMo_g
- **2016-01-01** — Glacial lake outburst floods. As Himalayan glaciers melt, the lakes they leave behind can burst without warning, sending floods down the valleys. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d96d7aca-71fa-486c-9ccb-662384b0357c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ScHkS_cqk4
- **2016-01-01** — Crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks. Population explosions of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish periodically devastate Pacific reefs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e2badeb0-93b4-42eb-a308-ebd8b265cfc9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLEeIzEf0jA
- **2016-02-01** — The Fontmell Magna and UK sinkholes. Britain's chalk and limestone regularly opens sinkholes that swallow roads and gardens. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a4a9ccfb-23d9-406b-9e40-896f261a8879) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq5C90kiAMw
- **2016-02-03** — The 2016 Siachen miracle. A soldier was pulled alive from under 8 metres of avalanche snow on the Siachen glacier after six days in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/49511e72-a326-4dd7-8066-dfca867cde95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_hqnpxKo_w
- **2016-02-09** — The 1968 Arenal eruption. Costa Rica's Arenal roared back to life in 1968 after centuries of quiet, burying villages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/149ab0b7-a8b8-4cae-9bf4-618a8e03f1d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZxtHzkAy-c
- **2016-02-20** — Cyclone Winston. The strongest cyclone ever to strike Fiji, and the strongest in the Southern Hemisphere on record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/22c52dcb-b3de-43d4-9df9-21d01b6221d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5m3jhxBSYM
- **2016-03-01** — The Great Barrier Reef bleaching. Record ocean heat caused the worst-ever mass bleaching of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, killing vast stretches of coral. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/14ce6b34-d8f0-4518-a2d0-ae53415ab56d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xFH4wCF4zQ
- **2016-04-11** — The 2016 San Antonio hailstorm. A hailstorm pounded San Antonio, Texas, in 2016, one of the costliest in state history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bad68c3a-c79f-4857-b0b5-5fedb59ed006) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7AigNbNp4
- **2016-04-14** — The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes. A sequence of earthquakes struck Kumamoto on Kyushu, Japan, in 2016, damaging its historic castle. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/475d6230-d2c0-4ce5-b1cd-c4ea53214694) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eqMFuldex4
- **2016-04-16** — The 2016 Ecuador earthquake. A powerful earthquake struck Ecuador's coast, killing over 670 in Pedernales and Portoviejo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e82c6aaa-22d3-4885-8640-e98981e0c380) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR51HTP-oBU
- **2016-05-01** — The 2016 Fort McMurray fire. A wildfire forced the evacuation of 88,000 people from Fort McMurray, Alberta, in Canada's costliest disaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/656b89e8-35d8-4069-b2a4-eb4fd1fffa59) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVssZGnWttQ
- **2016-05-12** — Deadly lightning in Bangladesh. Bangladesh suffers some of the world's deadliest lightning; a single day in 2016 killed dozens of farmers in the fields. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/92331c23-bf34-418a-bf45-af3d8f71027c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbY3MQ8GrUs
- **2016-05-21** — The Mount Sinabung eruptions. After centuries dormant, Indonesia's Sinabung roared back to life in the 2010s with deadly pyroclastic flows. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/95e97b1d-54a5-4f89-aa54-a1629471d4f4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C79QekHjH6U
- **2016** — Typhoon York. battered Hong Kong in 1999 with the longest hurricane-signal in decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fd919232-45fb-4dda-b0c5-ada522b8cfb2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbTl8qNbCaQ
- **2016-07-17** — The 2016 Aru glacier avalanche. A vast glacier suddenly collapsed and avalanched across a Tibetan valley in 2016, a rare and ominous event. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9c24f1b7-942b-4634-a6fa-74ec19fc6b51) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZytZxZSyz8
- **2016-07-21** — The 1995 Kobe earthquake. The Great Hanshin earthquake struck Kobe, Japan, killing over 6,400 and shattering the myth that modern Japanese infrastructure was quake-proof. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6372d9e5-5e7d-4ba6-a804-e1a2a3f2341c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uplu6DL9DoI
- **2016-08-24** — The 2016 central Italy earthquakes. A sequence of earthquakes destroyed Amatrice, Norcia and other medieval towns in central Italy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/42153f45-b69c-4791-8779-a66056550627) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWdLb066Nz0
- **2016-08-24** — The 2016 Central Italy earthquake. A quake destroyed the town of Amatrice and villages in the Apennines, killing nearly 300. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cc056541-557d-4b8a-bfba-5fd7588425cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QWyPPAGQ6I
- **2016-09-17** — The Mulberry phosphate sinkhole. A 15-storey-deep sinkhole opened under a Florida phosphate-gypsum stack, threatening the aquifer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8e24f9a5-6d44-43c1-9b07-36733958eff5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jGE2uC1Uo8
- **2016-09-21** — The Indian Ocean reef die-off. The 1998 bleaching killed most shallow coral across the Maldives, Sri Lanka and the western Indian Ocean. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/016b8ff5-7090-4910-af56-74a8b655c01f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI33ur-ExZU
- **2016-10-04** — Hurricane Matthew. devastated Haiti's Tiburon peninsula in 2016 before striking the U.S. Southeast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e256631e-3924-45d9-8fb4-64e6178b1f66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hupbZXOAjUU
- **2016-10-21** — The 1966 Aberfan disaster. A colliery spoil tip collapsed onto a school in the Welsh village of Aberfan, killing 116 children and 28 adults. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/73738349-effc-4d5b-864c-e91155906836) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZns_Cj0aY
- **2016-11-08** — The 2016 Fukuoka sinkhole. A giant sinkhole swallowed a downtown Fukuoka street in Japan in 2016 — and was repaired within a week. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/aec596e5-8ee7-44bb-975c-f16ab1f7f37a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBjHJCH-tJE
- **2016-11-21** — Thunderstorm asthma. A freak 2016 Melbourne storm burst pollen into breathable fragments, triggering a wave of asthma that killed 10. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/df035fd2-048e-4b74-a9e4-a2f8cce6eabd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSqLj-IZusA
- **2016-11-24** — The 1992 Nicaragua tsunami. A 'tsunami earthquake' — barely felt but deadly — sent waves into Nicaragua's Pacific coast in 1992. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6f222a3c-68dc-40ce-a252-5d3a45a90b8f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OTOBH1eQEM
- **2016-11-28** — The 2016 Gatlinburg fires. Wildfires driven by drought and wind swept into the tourist town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, killing 14. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b5d21478-496c-4e39-bc38-aed530057d11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPz9cLiG3ac
- **2016-12-24** — The Lake Nyos disaster. A cloud of carbon dioxide erupted from Cameroon's Lake Nyos and silently suffocated over 1,700 people and their livestock. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/853eb026-71fe-4b1e-93c6-8ff7b7796a16) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kw4i6n-vt0
### 2017
- **2017-01-01** — Jellyfish and the salmon farms. Jellyfish blooms have wiped out entire salmon farms and shut down power stations from Scotland to the Philippines. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/80b2da10-1c52-4524-9baa-b432ecb70ee4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-EIlbpyefg
- **2017-01-01** — The volcanoes that make lightning. Ash-charged eruptions from Anak Krakatau to Sakurajima spit continuous lightning through their plumes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/86932691-69b5-431b-bb7a-ed35dadbf5bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoCFt-00Vn0
- **2017-01-01** — The fall armyworm invasion. The fall armyworm spread across Africa and Asia from 2016, devastating maize crops and threatening food security for millions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9e1b9b2c-bb59-48d2-b889-892afa44e827) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DWT0RyvNZ8
- **2017-01-18** — The 2017 Rigopiano avalanche. An avalanche buried the Hotel Rigopiano in the Italian Apennines after an earthquake, killing 29. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e8c15a6b-b170-43e9-af37-b3388ff53491) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaEZSFbk5xQ
- **2017-01-25** — The 2017 Kashmir avalanches. A series of avalanches struck Indian-administered Kashmir, burying soldiers and villagers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e2135bfc-8d75-40df-b068-b1eceb1ef1cc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLuWNd0hVzI
- **2017-02-01** — Central Asian avalanche country. The Tien Shan and Pamir ranges of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan see deadly avalanches every winter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/77d37c44-c377-45ee-a739-b3ebd97e7601) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFLNLAURJz0
- **2017-02-01** — The Tajikistan highway avalanches. Avalanches regularly bury the high mountain highways of Tajikistan, cutting off remote valleys and killing travellers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8ed97178-1437-4068-88e4-2e5c76aab60b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEGHAE14KAs
- **2017-02-06** — The 1967 Black Tuesday fires. Bushfires swept Tasmania on Black Tuesday 1967, killing 62 in and around Hobart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b59cba38-d810-43f5-9cb6-488505a1ceff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eFsvi1juFw
- **2017-03-27** — The 2017 Nasu avalanche. An avalanche killed high-school students on a mountaineering training exercise in Japan in 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f02d3389-6f3c-4047-b4a6-51215b9c611d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPdF0oMCzM8
- **2017-03-31** — The Mocoa landslide. A midnight debris flow buried much of Mocoa in southern Colombia in 2017, killing over 300. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2a495308-6f15-40c2-826b-ca523009a28f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00IGG2dtLf4
- **2017-06-17** — The 2017 Greenland tsunami. A landslide into a fjord sent a tsunami into the village of Nuugaatsiaq in Greenland in 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0978996c-8a21-4017-925e-31ebd1bdec32) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrY95x5KN7I
- **2017-06-17** — The 2017 Portugal wildfires. Wildfires swept central Portugal, trapping people in their cars on a road near Pedrógão Grande, killing 66. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fafd07f0-34e5-4405-958b-63abf1099a61) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2ckytzyHo
- **2017-07-07** — The 1900 Galveston hurricane. A hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, with a storm surge that killed an estimated 6,000-12,000 — still the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3299ca89-d70c-442c-aead-d9de36c31dd2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbNkKy2j4eE
- **2017-08-01** — Ocean dead zones. Fertiliser runoff creates vast oxygen-starved 'dead zones', like the one the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/dcb08456-1415-4598-8a84-88735d3f2e7f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LwbeK-QXNs
- **2017-08-14** — The 2017 Freetown mudslide. After days of rain, a mountainside collapsed onto Freetown, Sierra Leone, killing over 1,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9ea2ec93-b893-4592-bcb8-9a59132b9782) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7tFirm5PbE
- **2017-08-23** — Typhoon Hato. flooded Macau and Hong Kong in 2017, killing people trapped in basements and garages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7d63cb12-2c98-486f-8b64-dba8f9ce9e48) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVr50NHorVc
- **2017-08-25** — Hurricane Harvey. Harvey stalled over Houston and dropped over a metre of rain, causing catastrophic flooding across Texas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/52a992a4-e407-4950-9e12-ff5b1405bbc2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF_Dn23tw6Q
- **2017-09-06** — Hurricane Irma. One of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever, Irma devastated Barbuda and the Caribbean before hitting Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/17fe8f55-1949-4472-9375-e26ee25eb44a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTfUUBW2Rsg
- **2017-09-19** — The 2017 Puebla earthquake. A quake struck central Mexico exactly 32 years after the 1985 disaster, killing over 370. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/68ca0902-d62c-498a-9816-65b1e13ca8d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY223kEByPw
- **2017-09-20** — Hurricane Maria. Maria devastated Puerto Rico, knocking out power for months and causing an estimated 3,000 deaths in the storm and its long aftermath. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1d923a03-41d0-4022-bee2-65edf66d5b99) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_BU-bxha_k
- **2017-09-20** — The 1953 North Sea flood. A storm surge broke the sea defences of the Netherlands and eastern England, drowning over 2,500 and prompting the Dutch Delta Works. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/30e89e69-8b32-44f4-8ea8-3f2605a30a5c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyitsaZ-YPY
- **2017-09-24** — The 2002 Nyiragongo eruption. Lava from Mount Nyiragongo flowed into the city of Goma, DR Congo, destroying much of it and displacing hundreds of thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ec33c434-bdc4-4a4b-a989-e2adf186ddd9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUvwH0zjBks
- **2017-09-29** — The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Mount St. Helens blew out its entire north flank in the most famous eruption in U.S. history, flattening 600 square km of forest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7e2a8085-d219-4181-b97b-9c39f1fb5f5b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYla6q3is6w
- **2017-10-08** — The 2017 Tubbs Fire. A wind-driven fire tore into Santa Rosa, California, destroying whole neighbourhoods overnight. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4c788b11-938c-4fc7-8410-00b51e3a9e57) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ccatwudu-Y
- **2017-10-08** — The 1963 Mount Agung eruption. An eruption of Bali's sacred Mount Agung killed over 1,000 and cooled the global climate. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c56b70bc-ea10-4b65-8664-e0bd6358e6a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATW18Rrb-I
- **2017-11-03** — The Vassdalen avalanche. An avalanche killed 16 Norwegian soldiers on a NATO exercise at Vassdalen in 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8c8ad7b8-1dc6-48a9-b754-239421224156) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUwDCSUnn2s
- **2017-11-10** — The 2001 Bab El Oued flood. A flash flood and mudslides devastated the Bab El Oued district of Algiers in 2001, killing over 700. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8f5ee3c6-f8d8-4416-a575-80252e94e7cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BccotMRcrwc
- **2017-11-12** — The 2017 Iran–Iraq earthquake. An earthquake on the Iran–Iraq border in 2017 killed over 600 and destroyed new government housing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/789d5ea4-226b-4eca-aa77-6acbfd46f8e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBHPVE3AI6Y
- **2017-11-19** — The 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake. An earthquake devastated the Iranian provinces of Gilan and Zanjan in 1990, killing some 40,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3f7dbf06-4bd7-44ea-8038-04a590ea6a22) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYFObiXv-qA
- **2017-11-25** — The Holodomor. A man-made famine killed millions in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-33, its scars still felt today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a08c823e-bf58-4ce9-a594-b173cdbcf7b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_F1kYQlcSs
- **2017-12-04** — The 2017 Thomas Fire. One of California's largest fires burned into December across Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d96cf510-7aa7-4720-9523-fc994c66996a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuK9hyxZ7uQ
### 2018
- **2018-01-01** — The Dead Sea sinkholes. As the Dead Sea shrinks, thousands of sinkholes are swallowing its shoreline, roads and buildings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/21b5cd16-5a35-44e7-af04-cfdd7e4350b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x2JlBctc7Y
- **2018-01-01** — Seiches — the standing waves. Wind and pressure can set a whole lake or bay sloshing back and forth in a 'seiche', flooding one shore then the other. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2afdf65f-c3c8-4f7e-b351-8de0ba44f394) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSzWqy4hubE
- **2018-01-01** — Cape Town's 'Day Zero' drought. A multi-year drought nearly forced Cape Town to shut off municipal water for four million people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4ce93f75-0a12-46be-9b94-26a41a1ce202) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df6F-l-HWuM
- **2018-01-01** — The Baltic Sea dead zones. The Baltic holds some of the largest human-caused oxygen-dead zones in the world's oceans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/76d14ff2-2f31-4086-a5cd-56df91f894a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qji2r6WKEgY
- **2018-01-01** — The invasive ant plagues. Invasive 'crazy ants' and fire ants swarm homes and short out electronics across the warming world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/823fbc20-41aa-4cc0-8f60-31468689d796) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqnauxtCX6I
- **2018-01-01** — The ocean plastic crisis. Millions of tonnes of plastic now choke the sea each year, killing turtles, whales and seabirds worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8d74fe63-6654-4dc5-948b-21989727d597) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQ_AqiKz-w
- **2018-01-01** — Volcanic lightning. Ash plumes generate their own storms, strobing volcanic lightning through columns of smoke and ash. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a8ba16c9-c75c-42ed-b6d9-9fdfa809400d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLuAnXR_SA
- **2018-01-01** — The sinkholes of Naples and Rome. Ancient quarries and aqueducts riddle the ground beneath Rome and Naples, opening 'voragini' in the streets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bb6d4062-c8d0-4053-b50b-848dc904918d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PWYKC13B7A
- **2018-01-04** — Bomb cyclones. When a storm's pressure crashes fast enough it 'bombs out' — an explosive cyclogenesis that whips up blizzards and floods. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/36e2aad9-e39f-4abb-a174-1ca08235f6da) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF1zZKtjluc
- **2018-01-09** — The Montecito debris flow. After the Thomas Fire stripped the hills, a downpour sent a deadly debris flow through Montecito, California. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3b088826-7815-4b0e-99a7-a684e8d67153) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ_wi5AUl8E
- **2018-01-19** — Snow in the Sahara. In a genuine freak of weather, snow occasionally dusts the dunes of the Algerian Sahara at Aïn Séfra. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f7937691-9c28-4921-8404-d8bf9fbf661f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi9rw9APhdo
- **2018-01-22** — The 2018 Zermatt cutoff. Heavy snow and avalanche danger cut off the Swiss resort of Zermatt in January 2018, stranding thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/973193be-10b0-4d89-8bb1-e4f8c6c4ddeb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTA1oPih7so
- **2018-01-26** — The Gujarat earthquake on Republic Day. The 2001 Bhuj quake struck as India celebrated Republic Day, killing around 20,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b7cf81e7-7015-4bae-ac50-2589e394130b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDos6WCsP1Y
- **2018-02-01** — Middle East dust storms. Vast dust storms sweep across Iraq, Iran and the Gulf, choking cities and grounding flights. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b4b97b74-eb26-4361-9146-04a1edfdbdc7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dJ2T21pgCM
- **2018-02-06** — The 2018 Fukui snow crisis. A record snowfall stranded over 1,000 cars for days on a highway in Fukui, Japan, in 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/989e3f0c-7cb8-45e1-87cf-305972662c13) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0r69SEd4w4
- **2018-02-08** — The Villa Carlos Paz gargantuan hail. A hailstone that may have exceeded any on record fell in Argentina in 2018, coining the term 'gargantuan hail'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/71b12b66-30bd-4d5e-9464-f8bfa995af6c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbQ_WCgAzk8
- **2018-02-26** — The 'Beast from the East'. A blast of Siberian air buried Britain and Europe in snow and paralysed transport. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/dd5808e7-114c-434d-a10c-4641d13c54f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlvoLAFza70
- **2018-03-01** — The 2018 Beast from the East in Ireland. 'Storm Emma' met the Beast from the East to bury Britain and Ireland in snow in March 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/00755727-8bd0-4d4a-ba04-e455dd30919e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq2ufeWXrXc
- **2018-04-16** — The 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The great quake and the three-day firestorm that followed levelled much of San Francisco, killing some 3,000 and leaving 200,000 homeless. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/49b2c0ee-1759-412c-a768-269d002f40bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiR7LnOkKug
- **2018-05-01** — The Rotorua and Earthquake Flat sinkholes. New Zealand's geothermal ground and old volcanic ash open enormous sinkholes on North Island farms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/392861c2-bf2a-4565-aab4-7dc12739330c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8HB9BXZk3A
- **2018-05-02** — The 2018 India dust storms. Violent pre-monsoon dust storms killed over 100 people across northern India in 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e9d1c8fc-6dc8-4b03-aa6b-ada4f5cfca4f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3zySU9QKo
- **2018-05-03** — The 2018 Kīlauea eruption. Hawaii's Kīlauea sent lava fountains and rivers through neighbourhoods on the Big Island for months. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/70abaa58-e714-4943-be2c-9feb2b562046) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpEJp28FQo8
- **2018-06-01** — Gustnadoes and landspouts. Weak, short-lived whirlwinds spin up along storm gust fronts — tornado-like but born from a different mechanism. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1599bf83-d170-4882-93d5-9c6d86b91e71) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_snSzlcIx8
- **2018-06-01** — The great Atlantic sargassum belt. A vast belt of sargassum seaweed now blooms across the Atlantic each year, rotting on Caribbean beaches. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ef375453-f474-43e9-b28d-73d589644d92) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQ_9c_0C5A
- **2018-06-03** — The 2018 Fuego eruption. Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego erupted with deadly pyroclastic flows that buried villages, killing around 200. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9d196b61-ed97-409d-87a4-1b08cfecec6a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqAV1pypX7k
- **2018-06-15** — The destruction of Pompeii. Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and pyroclastic flows in 79 AD, freezing a Roman city in time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/63b2b162-0408-4962-a3c0-cda78e4f5747) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU4GxfzvCcA
- **2018-06-15** — The 1362 Öræfajökull eruption. Iceland's largest explosive eruption of historic times destroyed a whole district in 1362. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f0d1270c-cd1d-441f-ae34-4945b14089f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLnayRZ67Dw
- **2018-06-25** — The great Asian dust events. Dust from the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts has swept East Asia for millennia, recorded in Chinese chronicles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b71f9cad-18d8-4e4f-9c94-7962b1c1a1f5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixsx4SYZACg
- **2018-06-29** — The Cloquet Fire. A wildfire swept through Cloquet, Minnesota, in 1918, one of the deadliest in U.S. history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e12826d5-d567-4b6c-89e5-24c8f80c0e6a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntJJTOCz5tQ
- **2018-07-01** — The 2018 Scandinavian wildfires. Even the Arctic Circle burned in 2018 as wildfires spread across Sweden during a record heatwave. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2a816b51-4c1a-4365-9cbb-e371ea1bb983) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ePC-Lrydo
- **2018-07-01** — The 2018 European heatwave & drought. A hot, dry summer scorched northern Europe, revealing 'hunger stones' in Germany's rivers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4f18c01f-2ef7-4ec0-b469-5cd22684821e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLWb_CXk6tk
- **2018-07-01** — Fire whirls (fire tornadoes). Intense wildfires can spin up 'fire whirls' or true fire tornadoes — rotating columns of flame, like the deadly 2018 Carr Fire vortex. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/83c7fc02-4ed8-4455-9bd6-2138eceb8680) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaVnUM9JWCk
- **2018-07-01** — The 2018 Japan heatwave. A deadly heatwave in the summer of 2018 sent tens of thousands of Japanese to hospital. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8c40c3a6-6c3a-473f-907c-2190aa768b12) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1AjMAPtmtQ
- **2018-07-01** — Microbursts. A microburst is a sudden, violent downdraft of air that slams into the ground and blasts outward, downing planes and trees. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d7f6ef32-74e3-427c-8f36-84a9cbfbee38) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSFgUFXUCs
- **2018-07-01** — The Phoenix monsoon dust walls. Every summer monsoon, towering haboobs roll across Phoenix and the Arizona desert. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e43a0668-d36f-4a3a-bbec-87b59159286a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo4SX-fKvm4
- **2018-07-06** — The 2018 western Japan floods. Record rain caused floods and landslides across western Japan in 2018, killing over 200. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/dc7af0a6-e068-4bf2-a893-7c131561c936) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0qYogIZ2tk
- **2018-07-07** — The 1918 influenza pandemic. The deadliest pandemic of the 20th century, the 1918 flu killed perhaps 50 million people worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/52d0995a-e176-46f3-86e4-b2724e82fa42) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ9WX4qVxEo
- **2018-07-23** — The 2018 Carr and Mendocino fires. A summer of record fires — including a fire tornado in Redding — scorched California in 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/502e60f1-e5ba-4f96-ac56-7b13b9680e80) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzvwg4CL400
- **2018-07-23** — The 2018 Attica wildfires. Fast-moving wildfires trapped people against the sea near Athens, killing over 100 in Greece's worst fire disaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f9b76eeb-3744-4891-adaa-193fc734eb47) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSCQgtxSxHk
- **2018-08-01** — The 2018 Florida red tide. A months-long toxic algal bloom killed tons of fish, turtles and manatees along Florida's Gulf coast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/01882b13-5254-4e17-87e5-3c52c530c99f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8YnXYdzrY
- **2018-08-01** — The 2018 Kerala floods. The worst floods in a century hit the Indian state of Kerala, killing over 480 and displacing a million. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/605a9085-8117-4510-ad78-b5a1993d957f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-y_gTiq4v8
- **2018-08-01** — The Florida manatee die-off. Warm-water losses and algae have driven record manatee deaths along Florida's coast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f81303a6-8ba5-40fc-b8cc-08fd15018b1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmHkkcy4i3c
- **2018-08-05** — The 2018 Lombok earthquakes. A series of quakes struck the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing over 500. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/78ac7848-a05f-4e76-9930-f13b78af9018) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8BMV2wb1IA
- **2018-08-06** — The Colorado Springs zoo hailstorm. A sudden hailstorm at a Colorado zoo killed animals and injured visitors, caught on terrifying video. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ac78bf9f-21c4-46ef-8479-01fd6739578b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_0ElTjD-bk
- **2018-08-26** — The Manam Island eruption. An eruption of Papua New Guinea's Manam volcano forced the evacuation of the whole island. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/41fbb9d7-4c21-49b4-9182-c5f5a0b78f83) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbjaeTcXYzs
- **2018-09-14** — Hurricane Florence. Florence stalled over the Carolinas, dropping record rainfall and causing catastrophic inland flooding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/486d2aaa-309d-40ad-a9d2-ae7bbe19a298) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFJGsS2YUR4
- **2018-09-15** — Typhoon Mangkhut. Super Typhoon Mangkhut struck the Philippines and then battered Hong Kong and Macau in 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/898f19eb-5f05-42de-b292-f6f6ddebdb7a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmAng9H0vI
- **2018-09-28** — The 2018 Palu earthquake. An earthquake, tsunami and rare soil liquefaction devastated Palu on Sulawesi, Indonesia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/33737a43-465b-43e6-9a92-a1bcb170e0b4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_GShpD5SA8
- **2018-09-28** — The 2018 Palu tsunami. A quake and a fast, unexpected tsunami struck Palu on Sulawesi, Indonesia, killing over 4,000 — worsened by ground liquefaction that swallowed neighbourhoods. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4699e9c3-17c3-4dc2-bfb1-41bf97b16088) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZylSvWAc2_Q
- **2018-09-30** — The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. A magnitude 9.1 quake off Sumatra sent tsunamis across the Indian Ocean, killing around 227,000 people in 14 countries — the deadliest tsunami in recorded history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/88a4d665-70f3-4f60-9e75-9ea652c3a0cc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYdg6CoRfQg
- **2018-10-10** — Hurricane Michael. A Category 5 hurricane obliterated Mexico Beach in the Florida Panhandle. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c231657e-7dbf-4957-93f8-938f2bc0c7f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9EPIRbbHXQ
- **2018-10-11** — The 2018 Bududa landslides. Landslides again buried villages on Uganda's Mount Elgon in 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/10019b9a-907e-4684-80cb-c7708d87b8b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeiuJEwR8kw
- **2018-11-08** — The Camp Fire. The deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history destroyed the town of Paradise, killing 85. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6ef3e960-a81c-47ce-bfa5-e9331894ce0f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oURlWKdYtnA
- **2018-11-08** — The 2018 Camp Fire. California's deadliest wildfire destroyed the town of Paradise in hours, killing 85 people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9b74d07f-6fc8-4d87-8048-7dcd512b71e9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9r4hlk1_Zg
- **2018-11-30** — The 1970 Great Peruvian earthquake. Peru's worst disaster killed about 70,000, including 20,000 buried by an avalanche off Huascarán. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/eba40fd4-d926-4ab0-876d-ded187423472) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB6AKMIg9JE
- **2018-12-18** — The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. A quake and firestorm destroyed Tokyo and Yokohama, killing over 105,000 in Japan's deadliest earthquake. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e8ca0b18-0ec5-47b3-a652-e28f2f44e594) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmwXmsx_YZw
- **2018-12-22** — The 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami. A flank collapse of Anak Krakatau sent a tsunami with no warning onto Java and Sumatra, killing over 400. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3fca08c3-4407-4855-aa81-e24ae01267ad) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_SmIX1xo8w
- **2018-12-28** — The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. A hurricane pushed Lake Okeechobee over its dike, drowning about 2,500, mostly Black farmworkers in Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d1654843-c516-40bb-a1fc-39ec092e1a63) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRy2aAdQ5wY
### 2019
- **2019-01-01** — The Pacific oyster die-offs. Acidifying, warming seawater has killed billions of oyster larvae in Pacific Northwest hatcheries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1e041956-36e4-4032-812c-fa0f8984b66b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aizrSs_hGk
- **2019-01-01** — The lightning capital of the world. Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela and the Congo basin see more lightning than anywhere else on the planet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/29a4348c-d8ed-4bda-b8d1-c9092a6b49b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw2tSrQ8cHU
- **2019-01-01** — The Alaska snow crab collapse. Billions of snow crabs vanished from the warming Bering Sea, forcing an unprecedented fishery closure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/40dafbf5-cfa8-4f1a-9e86-8ac98ae27dbf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXEPYnORJ-Q
- **2019-01-01** — Sprites and upper-atmosphere lightning. High above thunderstorms, red sprites and blue jets flash upward toward space — lightning's mysterious mirror. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6a464e32-23a4-4e4b-ba70-4494569d897a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVwtWIRxH_w
- **2019-01-01** — The 2019 Alps snow crisis. Record snowfall in January 2019 triggered deadly avalanches and cut off alpine villages across Austria and Germany. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7102f06c-49c2-49c5-a309-43990520adc5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU5Nue83S1E
- **2019-01-01** — The gray whale die-off. Starving gray whales began washing up dead along the Pacific coast in 2019 in an 'unusual mortality event'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/74b86fb1-44d9-482d-8ff2-50a590657b07) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAC3hRWrI8U
- **2019-01-01** — Heat bursts. A rare nighttime 'heat burst' can send temperatures spiking and winds roaring as a dying storm collapses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/85e55fe4-654a-4e6a-b9f5-fd427bee2e99) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--DeqbRVR8M
- **2019-01-01** — The abandoned-mine collapses. Old undocumented coal and salt mines keep collapsing under towns across Appalachia and the Ruhr. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a906e3c8-0e25-41f9-b5ef-43be27dc381f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuBVn_7MJVI
- **2019-01-01** — Shelf clouds and roll clouds. An advancing storm's shelf cloud or a rolling 'morning glory' cloud makes some of the most dramatic skies on Earth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bbaa1bde-eceb-4e7c-94d8-fa5750fde298) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx6YCXW_uek
- **2019-01-01** — King tides and sunny-day floods. The highest tides of the year now routinely flood streets in Miami, Venice and the Pacific islands even on clear days. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e625f93f-823b-4ad8-8273-0183c64925e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omXnXbTxZjU
- **2019-01-01** — The thawing permafrost. As Arctic permafrost thaws, the ground slumps and collapses, tearing apart roads, homes and coastlines. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/eb982796-fe02-4635-816e-52acff9f80ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUOrPJz-uUk
- **2019-01-25** — The Brumadinho dam disaster. A mining tailings dam collapsed at Brumadinho, Brazil, in 2019, burying workers under a wave of mud, filmed as it happened. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/72684668-a1ed-44f7-b8fc-188b4d24a5dd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNOxXfxAKGA
- **2019-01-25** — The 1999 Galtür avalanche. An avalanche struck the Austrian ski village of Galtür, killing 31 in one of the Alps' worst modern avalanche disasters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/727d1eb1-2db7-4479-a97a-3581c3264946) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Azy1WYQoA
- **2019-01-27** — The 2019 Havana tornado. A rare, powerful tornado tore through Havana, Cuba, in 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9d4605de-7707-4b8a-b86e-0f4ed3539ad4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C61YiD3kIDE
- **2019-02-02** — The Soufrière Hills eruption. Montserrat's Soufrière Hills began erupting, burying the capital Plymouth and rendering half the island uninhabitable. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3e27aaf6-3486-4c3a-8fdc-b5f247768e72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxcfSYBmgew
- **2019-03-14** — Cyclone Idai. devastated Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, flooding the city of Beira and killing over 1,300. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/27a1de0c-349c-4e86-9c5c-e52a076b8b29) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBXXbycO1u0
- **2019-05-01** — Great Plains haboobs. Towering haboobs — wind-driven dust walls — roll across the U.S. Southwest and Plains, especially West Texas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/263279e7-7051-4e5e-9c6a-523fc6be475c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou2MCqNLHC8
- **2019-05-01** — Dust devils. Whirlwinds of dust spin up on hot, dry days worldwide — usually harmless but sometimes strong enough to cause damage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/493e8dca-f4f7-49a7-a2cd-6afb1f689f42) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnU1lFRp5IM
- **2019-05-01** — The 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado. This Oklahoma F5 produced the highest wind speed ever measured on Earth — 486 km/h — as it tore through the Moore suburbs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bd8dfc99-20ad-488c-ab1d-3bab4bd4f65e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACgzaUH3zk
- **2019-05-03** — Cyclone Fani. struck Odisha, India, in 2019; a massive evacuation kept the death toll low. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/354fd82d-8d3a-42c0-b1cb-22aa173a4b3a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOlWEM_zan4
- **2019-05-09** — The 1902 eruption of Mont Pelée. A pyroclastic flow from Mont Pelée destroyed the city of Saint-Pierre, Martinique, killing about 28,000 in minutes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1b198ae4-2332-4339-b260-eb29854381b6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnXaw5ZF3q0
- **2019-05-15** — The 1939 Erzincan earthquake. Turkey's deadliest recorded earthquake killed some 33,000 people in the depth of winter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5be2544d-13b9-464d-b154-1de28d5273c5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwB-5ST1Ys
- **2019-05-15** — The 1950 Assam–Tibet earthquake. One of the largest continental earthquakes ever recorded devastated the Assam-Tibet border. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e519442b-47fb-43cb-9060-c6cca839b370) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWp-FNdlBrk
- **2019-06-01** — The 2019 European heatwaves. Two extreme heatwaves in 2019 set all-time records across France, Germany and Britain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5630a441-637e-4cb6-8c69-db3310659d93) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlsqCBVft0k
- **2019-06-01** — The Chennai water crisis. In 2019 the Indian megacity of Chennai's reservoirs ran dry, and water arrived by train. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6054d4ca-740a-4f0c-827a-97a570e61e1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ZJ6as2sp4
- **2019-06-01** — The 2019-21 desert locust upsurge. The largest desert-locust upsurge in decades swept from East Africa across the Middle East to India. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b108fcae-19a6-4bdb-98ef-bd1256a525b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwR7MMDYp74
- **2019-06-01** — Supercell mothership storms. The rotating 'mothership' supercells of the Great Plains are among the most spectacular and dangerous storm structures on Earth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e848f683-2819-46b5-a577-0128dad4aef0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQEtR15cTjE
- **2019-06-07** — The Chinese famine of 1928-30. Drought and warlord conflict caused a famine that killed millions in northern China from 1928. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8d271cd1-d637-4e9f-a843-6b587dada5ca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xar4oZ9eOv8
- **2019-06-24** — The record Bethune, Colorado hail. Enormous hail up to grapefruit size regularly bombards the U.S. High Plains through spring and summer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f678ca77-fddd-4ee4-8ad3-02eb81e1326b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX5_oTfRyz8
- **2019-07-01** — The 2019 Siberian megafires. Vast wildfires burned across the Russian Arctic in 2019, so large the smoke was visible from space. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/653156cb-bc94-4719-89c0-9aa362f36bb7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-G7gvObAfY
- **2019-07-03** — Stromboli's paroxysms. Italy's Stromboli, in near-constant eruption for millennia, periodically erupts violently over the Tyrrhenian Sea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/da01d8cb-235c-4464-aed2-cfdf041cf8fc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NskW61WwrY
- **2019-07-15** — Hurricane Hazel. raked the Carolinas and struck Toronto, Canada, with deadly inland flooding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8e1d1b1d-16a6-427e-891e-72942e883cd9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBs1-vt_uBc
- **2019-08-01** — The 2019 Amazon fires. A surge of deliberate deforestation fires burned across the Amazon in 2019, drawing global alarm over the rainforest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7c63fe5b-10c9-4cb2-998b-e10f0865283e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=568WcdbVRP8
- **2019-08-01** — The 2019 Chiquitano fires. Fires burned millions of hectares of Bolivia's Chiquitano dry forest in 2019, alongside the Amazon blazes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8ca6e60d-cde8-46a5-bc5e-2399f2763992) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUfOsXppirU
- **2019-08-28** — Hurricane Camille. One of only a handful of Category 5 hurricanes to strike the U.S., Camille devastated the Mississippi coast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f983e951-c038-406c-9ecc-0c9e02bb9979) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOLSKRBhcGM
- **2019-08-29** — The 1929 Grand Banks tsunami. A quake-triggered submarine landslide sent a tsunami to Newfoundland, killing 28 — the deadliest in Canadian history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5712a1b6-5ba8-41d9-b031-457d5084d8cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOn6EB5qM2w
- **2019-09-01** — Hurricane Dorian. Dorian stalled over the Bahamas as a Category 5 for over a day, devastating Abaco and Grand Bahama. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2816d2e3-7db4-4908-a393-83b97d77f93f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kcPFAIESBA
- **2019-10-20** — The 2019 Dallas tornado. A nighttime tornado carved a path through Dallas, Texas, in 2019, though remarkably no one died. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/59657b3a-73f8-4310-99df-ceeebd0c6536) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUnFg1wC3Jo
- **2019-11-01** — Italy's waterspout tornadoes. Tornadoes and waterspouts strike Italy's coasts more often than many realise, damaging ports and towns. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cbeb8f92-17cd-4f41-917f-127b6c9d0331) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87FQ8JNXoI
- **2019-11-12** — The 2019 Venice acqua alta. The worst flooding in half a century submerged Venice in 2019, drowning St Mark's Basilica. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1c5abf39-a51d-49b6-9623-7505fd0d7b7c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lILGA5u_KZQ
- **2019-11-15** — The 1935 Labor Day hurricane. The most intense hurricane ever to hit the U.S. destroyed the Florida Keys, killing hundreds of war veterans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1df6b615-0a35-4d77-a48f-ad229c3e261c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4EBwXfZMsQ
- **2019-11-26** — The 2019 Albania earthquake. An earthquake struck Durrës and Thumanë in Albania in 2019, the country's deadliest in decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f16f8660-c714-4f66-a3c2-4e983800242f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ejt7TbfyI
- **2019-12-01** — Australia's Black Summer. The 2019-20 bushfires burned 24 million hectares, killed or displaced 3 billion animals and turned skies red across Australia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5d120a1e-0358-485d-99b1-71c404d04b12) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HCSD2coBW8
- **2019-12-09** — The 2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption. New Zealand's White Island volcano erupted while tourists stood on it, killing 22. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b3a4c0ed-476f-4935-9261-042a0c41424d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPeWY5OrQ6Y
- **2019-12-16** — The 2003 Boumerdès earthquake. A quake struck northern Algeria near Algiers, killing over 2,200. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/90c351a9-906e-41e0-8915-fd65278f7093) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laIRsbdaNAY
### 2020
- **2020-01-01** — The 2020 East Africa locust plague. The worst desert-locust upsurge in 70 years swept across East Africa and South Asia, swarms devouring crops across a dozen countries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1e98266c-88d8-43fa-af02-f392dbe206e9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rKZlRxFGgo
- **2020-01-01** — The 2020 Jakarta floods. New Year floods submerged much of Jakarta, Indonesia, one of the world's fastest-sinking cities. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3384998e-1324-4d2d-ab40-c7bcebf385b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pph6sYcOtVo
- **2020-01-01** — The vanishing coasts. Rising seas and stronger storms are eating away coastlines from Louisiana to West Africa, swallowing whole villages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/575ff2d8-ff9a-4ca5-96e0-8bd5188e31e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW3dSWkhog0
- **2020-01-01** — Straight-line winds and 'plow winds'. Not every wind disaster is a tornado — straight-line downbursts flatten forests and towns just as violently. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/732beef1-969f-4288-8076-ac82a08c709c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Er8ndPngEY
- **2020-01-01** — Superbolts and megaflashes. Some lightning 'megaflashes' stretch hundreds of kilometres, and rare 'superbolts' are thousands of times brighter than normal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8ee06759-f738-492b-8fdf-22b447115f6e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdwsF2niBTY
- **2020-01-01** — The Caspian seal die-offs. Mass die-offs periodically wash thousands of endangered Caspian seals onto the shores of the landlocked sea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9c18e2b2-5e2d-4cfd-ad70-09efd13484e6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKjzcfKz6PQ
- **2020-01-01** — Mass whale strandings. Hundreds of whales sometimes beach themselves together, as when 470 pilot whales stranded in Tasmania in 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c6772a33-f2a4-4b49-8900-0cd5a8cf2623) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBlB0JGmCAs
- **2020-01-01** — Guatemala's recurring sinkholes. Poor drainage over volcanic ash keeps opening deep, cylindrical sinkholes in Guatemala City's streets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ca409dae-3a80-44c9-839e-96f20c36e90b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muvVDvm9rRI
- **2020-01-01** — The East Africa locust invasion. Vast desert-locust swarms invaded Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia in 2020, the worst in 70 years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fba0577c-2130-4a53-8ce9-2216b2c1cddf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkbUFxUDNzE
- **2020-01-13** — The Xining bus sinkhole. A sinkhole opened beneath a city bus in Xining, China, swallowing it and pedestrians on camera. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7e6f83f6-16db-4a37-8174-aa867fe1f6cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDdPOI6vfdg
- **2020-01-17** — The 2020 Snowmageddon in St. John's. A record blizzard buried St. John's, Newfoundland, in 2020, prompting a state of emergency and army help. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b3441619-8e8d-471b-9663-6455b9960281) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRHJ1JL3YoY
- **2020-01-20** — The 2020 Melbourne–Sydney hail. Giant hail smashed cars and skylights across Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney in January 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8cad36bf-cbd9-4c9e-9934-34147f9c45c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VPa2naRTQ4
- **2020-01-30** — The 2003 Bam earthquake. A quake destroyed the ancient mud-brick citadel city of Bam, Iran, killing over 26,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/71ea3e4c-5710-45b2-b059-13024e748e7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V1iQGLnbGQ
- **2020-02-05** — The 2020 Van avalanches. A second avalanche struck rescuers digging out victims of a first near Van, Turkey, killing over 40. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2ae9a4e8-d91f-4f88-93d1-b70fbad73fa5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgJx8VBEJBI
- **2020-03-01** — The 2020 Great Barrier Reef bleaching. The most widespread bleaching event yet recorded on the Great Barrier Reef, hitting even its southern reefs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3f039f03-a776-436e-8a27-ba494f8b4ca9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4tybYSOG5Y
- **2020-03-03** — The 2020 Nashville tornado. A tornado tore through downtown Nashville and Cookeville, Tennessee, at night in 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/aff15eaf-dfa0-4093-ad57-9975cd739bee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2sEUG3iRs0
- **2020-05-01** — The 'murder hornet' arrival. The invasive Asian giant hornet, dubbed the 'murder hornet', appeared in North America in 2020, threatening honeybees. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/27750885-aa62-4099-be20-edc183c82e84) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfACg2f_dyM
- **2020-05-20** — Cyclone Amphan. devastated the Bengal delta and Kolkata in 2020, one of the costliest storms in the region. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/14b2dd83-44f7-47bd-81db-3b4f1c1b9c01) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unxtYg5k_UA
- **2020-06-01** — The 2020 China floods. Months of flooding along the Yangtze tested the Three Gorges Dam and displaced millions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/23e0a3cd-4fdb-4373-b32d-8ddc6fa0aebd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3NWfRIZxa0
- **2020-06-01** — Anvil crawlers and spider lightning. The vast, branching lightning that crawls along the underside of a storm's anvil is among the sky's great spectacles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/96e2d8ff-e29a-4902-9676-7ed88c832f73) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1DyQwZO16c
- **2020-06-01** — Saharan dust plumes. Giant plumes of Saharan dust cross the Atlantic each year, reddening Caribbean and American skies. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/beba3e1d-4f84-4bcc-8388-6b5de0a4475c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkVzDEzVQ0
- **2020-06-13** — The 2020 Calgary hailstorm. A hailstorm pounded Calgary in 2020, one of the costliest hail disasters in Canadian history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7722ce77-b5de-4799-8f2c-25fadcccaa89) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyjK_3UWFhs
- **2020-07-02** — The 2020 Hpakant jade mine disaster. A landslide at a jade mine in Myanmar buried scavenging miners, killing over 170. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2baa26ef-3136-4a24-a265-dab13134efc8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3nZeTblwdk
- **2020-07-15** — The 1988 Bangladesh floods. Monsoon floods submerged three-quarters of Bangladesh, leaving tens of millions homeless. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/861aef25-03ee-4498-9399-b51eefcccd09) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o75KSDVroGs
- **2020-07-16** — The 1990 Luzon earthquake. A powerful earthquake struck the Philippines' Luzon island, collapsing a Baguio hotel with people inside. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7dab4dd5-b210-4845-9275-ed8010272372) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rwz1VcLtDE
- **2020-07-23** — The Aurora, Nebraska hailstone. A record hailstone nearly 18 cm across fell at Aurora, Nebraska, in 2003. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7cc2fd88-6bb5-49f8-b6a6-532c43ec39ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j3S34P9OIE
- **2020-08-01** — California's 2020 fire siege. A record fire season turned California's skies orange and burned over 1.6 million hectares. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f807bc1e-851d-4fb7-9d77-1ce15b6861c7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzojxuIoCC0
- **2020-08-07** — The 1912 Novarupta eruption. The largest eruption of the 20th century, in Alaska, created the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6f6a0064-cea1-4e9d-9bdf-3412442f16d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JFWkNvUV4Q
- **2020-08-10** — The 2020 Midwest derecho. A derecho — a vast, fast wall of straight-line winds — tore across the U.S. Midwest at up to 200 km/h, flattening Iowa's corn crop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4cbe7308-e331-443b-9cab-43202d457cd6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZCEoMBZabU
- **2020-08-10** — The 2020 Iowa derecho. A powerful derecho flattened crops and cities across Iowa with hurricane-force winds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c8af3ba9-e2c9-4b04-832e-b269eb9ea4a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euqY9Ochn5c
- **2020-08-12** — The 1986 Izu Ōshima eruption. An eruption of Japan's Izu Ōshima volcano forced the evacuation of the island's entire population by sea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/15e2222b-04ab-4cd5-8f74-f931fa10cca9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcTolbLI3Lw
- **2020-08-15** — The Loyalton fire tornado. A wildfire near Loyalton, California, spun up a fire tornado so strong the weather service issued a tornado warning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/548deb24-8d0e-495d-b4b8-50f061aa364a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PerGAeGA0Wk
- **2020-08-27** — Hurricane Laura. A powerful Category 4 hurricane struck southwestern Louisiana with a devastating surge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bc1e83a9-fa27-4c02-8820-a0b6930a3671) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-mkKx1V-38
- **2020-09-01** — The 2020 Sahel and Sudan floods. Record Nile and Sahel rains flooded Sudan, Niger and Nigeria in 2020, displacing hundreds of thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2def59d0-c554-4dbb-9f49-c2241e08ec8f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7vN5RaAITw
- **2020-09-03** — The Millennium Drought. A decade-long drought gripped southeastern Australia through the 2000s, draining rivers and reservoirs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d10b409d-8095-4476-a63f-b3650c84ce9f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOolFyzqswc
- **2020-09-04** — The 1903 Frank Slide. A massive rockslide buried part of the mining town of Frank in Alberta, Canada, in 90 seconds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c3675f90-0a19-4fce-a52e-689538e903d7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVT8TpFBHWU
- **2020-09-07** — The 2020 Oregon fires. Wind-driven fires destroyed whole Oregon towns and turned West Coast skies apocalyptic orange. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/025b4e6f-0310-425b-9af7-b72b2378a8c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYhzSyLHqYE
- **2020-09-18** — Medicanes — Mediterranean hurricanes. The Mediterranean occasionally spins up rare hurricane-like storms called 'medicanes', such as Ianos in 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cb66b390-b81f-4b09-bb9f-dc0480a8cf2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPDxGQ-QGL8
- **2020-10-02** — The 1993 Storm of the Century. A colossal cyclone struck the entire U.S. East Coast with blizzards, tornadoes and record low pressure, affecting 40% of Americans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/631beeb4-bd1b-4cd9-bff4-41a2453dc311) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRSG2BNTrgc
- **2020-10-27** — The 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm. A firestorm swept the Oakland Hills of California, destroying 3,000 homes in hours. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b54e7de0-6bcc-4640-9538-6aa689f889af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCu-oj2NsU
- **2020-10-30** — The 2020 Aegean earthquake. An earthquake in the Aegean toppled buildings in İzmir, Turkey, and sent a small tsunami into Samos in 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3a76fe84-e30f-4d6c-9a16-c3429675477e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLZYL9Eu2gM
- **2020-11-01** — Typhoon Goni. Super Typhoon Goni, one of the strongest landfalls ever recorded, struck the Philippines in 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/63aeb0a0-9ada-40ce-b750-e96fbaddde4b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9ri9qGVIY
- **2020-11-17** — Rogue waves. Freak walls of water twice the height of surrounding seas — long dismissed as sailors' myth — are now confirmed to sink ships without warning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d276951d-611c-492f-bcbd-32b330e920e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbTC3HCrpkU
- **2020-12-17** — Cyclone Yasa. one of the strongest on record in the South Pacific, struck Fiji in 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5bffbb85-4675-4432-b10f-c9adbb76fd1e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvyKSliNm8g
- **2020-12-29** — The 2020 Petrinja earthquake. An earthquake devastated the town of Petrinja in Croatia at the end of 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/47152815-0e34-4f98-ba4e-1eedf52c9823) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UilBPFA_Wc
- **2020-12-30** — The Gjerdrum quick-clay slide. A quick-clay landslide swallowed homes in Gjerdrum, Norway, in 2020, killing ten. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6f42cacf-ab31-418b-bb77-8c7eb146a31a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd6goYLB3Gs
### 2021
- **2021-01-01** — Freezing rain and ice disasters. Freezing rain glazes everything in ice, snapping power lines and trees across whole regions in silent, crushing storms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/03154341-b77c-419b-8aec-eae0dec578ff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggqZb8BdXPo
- **2021-01-01** — Centralia and the burning ground. A coal-seam fire has burned under Centralia, Pennsylvania, since 1962, opening steaming sinkholes and emptying the town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/086c9812-a032-4a60-90e1-08b577cf6205) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcDbPf4pkCA
- **2021-01-01** — Japan's record snowfalls. Record lake-effect and sea-of-Japan snowfalls regularly bury Japanese towns under metres of snow each winter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/20d54389-d162-48df-9a46-2b502de6fc7f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8pt5sAL40w
- **2021-01-01** — The manatee starvation crisis. Seagrass die-offs in Florida's polluted lagoons starved record numbers of manatees from 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9f7ab076-d45d-4548-acb5-30a99daefc39) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxuulZ3nycQ
- **2021-01-01** — The Mečenčani sinkhole swarm. After the 2020 Petrinja earthquake, dozens of sinkholes opened around the Croatian village of Mečenčani. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ffe4403b-c1ae-4b98-a93a-51eb1999f4cc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxKsMzOWVS4
- **2021-01-08** — Storm Filomena. buried Madrid under its heaviest snow in decades in January 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f613126f-8e43-4d83-9fda-aa4bf6b847f9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xa3jwBYmxc
- **2021-01-11** — The 'Sanpachi' snow disaster. Record snow buried the Hokuriku coast of Japan in 1963 in the disaster remembered as 'Sanpachi'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fcfda6b7-fd39-4980-98f7-8327f3fe8db0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f57w2C25u4U
- **2021-02-01** — The 2021 European deep freeze. Arctic air spilled south in February 2021, bringing snow to Greece and record cold across Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c31e6539-06c3-44ab-8071-064ce9153ee6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B_PeddmNUc
- **2021-02-02** — The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. New Zealand's deadliest earthquake destroyed Napier and Hastings, killing 256. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/dd87e534-4501-4b8d-a297-abc6173ab32e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCbvvGI1vUk
- **2021-02-07** — The Chamoli glacier disaster. A rock-and-ice avalanche off a Himalayan peak sent a deadly flood down the Rishiganga, destroying dams and killing 200. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/32318b5c-1cc1-4d1a-8728-d45f6b0027e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnwmIOgfiCM
- **2021-02-13** — The 2021 Texas cold wave. A polar-vortex cold wave froze Texas, collapsing its power grid and leaving millions without heat, killing hundreds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1afc14c7-8195-42c7-9faf-17756d245cf2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqGNa4p3zxs
- **2021-02-13** — The 2021 Texas freeze. A polar outbreak crashed the Texas power grid, leaving millions without heat for days and killing over 200. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5d22a277-4e59-40e7-99a8-5537f236a746) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDIoYOA8Pzk
- **2021-02-16** — The 2021 Etna paroxysms. Mount Etna put on a months-long fireworks show of lava fountains in 2021, dusting Sicily in ash. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a47a7a5f-2da1-4b24-9a68-c7ecb674c224) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWFFEN4Oqbg
- **2021-03-03** — The Winter of Terror, 1951. Hundreds of avalanches struck the Alps over three weeks in 1951, killing over 250 across Austria and Switzerland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/51aaf133-af06-4553-82e9-09cd70417471) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iNZ2LdNZUU
- **2021-03-08** — The 1946 Aleutian tsunami. A quake in the Aleutians sent a tsunami that killed 159 in Hilo, Hawaii, leading to the Pacific Tsunami Warning System. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bbf2c1a3-c8fd-48a7-9e1f-3b1bade360e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nXSrUOfpZ8
- **2021-03-14** — The 2021 Mongolia dust storm. A deadly dust storm swept Mongolia and northern China in March 2021, killing herders and turning skies black. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7226e4f1-db40-4869-9936-40fa12280ac4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8y1T4cYO8
- **2021-03-15** — The 2021 Beijing dust storm. The worst sandstorm in a decade turned Beijing's sky orange, blowing in from the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e4f2da15-7d1f-484d-a00f-1415f70dfebb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJeO6bukfrI
- **2021-03-19** — The Fagradalsfjall eruptions. After 800 years, Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula reawakened, drawing crowds to glowing lava fields near Reykjavik. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/723d2764-4dbd-41d8-be92-8d4d63793699) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaQZcwEAZck
- **2021-03-29** — Asia's yellow dust seasons. Each spring 'yellow dust' from the Gobi sweeps across Korea and Japan, choking cities. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9d28a4bc-14cb-4d59-8ca0-65cc49405355) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRLu7oAynKA
- **2021-04-21** — The 1966 Topeka tornado. An F5 tornado tore through Topeka, Kansas, in 1966, defying a local legend that a hill would protect the city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6fdac5ec-c823-4081-ba2b-0912379e0331) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1OqjpEtSwk
- **2021-05-01** — The 2021 Australian mouse plague. A biblical plague of mice overran farms and towns across eastern Australia, chewing through crops and infrastructure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/758f28c5-5108-4c82-afd3-15dfb295f371) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vK56GurgA
- **2021-05-01** — The Marmara 'sea snot'. A vast blanket of mucilage — 'sea snot' — smothered Turkey's Sea of Marmara in 2021, choking marine life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8cc20942-7e72-44c2-a314-57906ffca8b1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWOu69Gy_Tc
- **2021-05-12** — The Central Asian mudflows. Spring meltwater and quakes send deadly mudflows down the valleys of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan every year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/23dbe6f9-5a41-464d-b7a8-ed6f02b254cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WviFN51b2I8
- **2021-05-14** — The 2021 Wuhan and Suzhou tornadoes. Two tornadoes struck central and eastern China on the same day in 2021, killing over a dozen. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7be97a58-5dc7-415f-86b1-e0de766a247e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3K0z_1F4J4
- **2021-05-22** — The 2021 Nyiragongo eruption. Congo's Nyiragongo erupted without warning, sending lava into the outskirts of the city of Goma. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/235b2002-f857-4065-8abb-72e7f21baad3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZjFRT-lHsk
- **2021-05-29** — The Puebla mega-sinkhole. A sinkhole near Puebla, Mexico, grew for weeks in 2021, swallowing a house and edging toward more. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9c4715a2-9ae6-4570-829e-ea4ced34ef46) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4T6WGv8_9s
- **2021-06-01** — The mothership supercell. Rotating 'mothership' supercells — vast wall-like storm structures over the Great Plains — are among the most awesome sights in weather. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/66ebb5fa-e0c0-4712-9bfc-f1d3838d05d7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKsYINqR1fo
- **2021-06-24** — The 2021 South Moravia tornado. A rare, violent tornado tore through villages in the Czech Republic, killing 6 in one of Europe's worst. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a7c8ff30-f5a0-4f45-bb7d-203f26d0fa03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1cqpVTvqeU
- **2021-06-25** — The 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome. An unprecedented heat dome sent temperatures to 49.6°C in Canada, killing over 600 and destroying the village of Lytton. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2928f48f-e153-4486-b32d-00d6759dd502) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdWlM7kdLqU
- **2021-07-01** — The Western megadrought. The American West's 2000s-2020s drought is the driest 22-year stretch in over 1,200 years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3b928ddd-eb2f-410e-8609-f4485bce9238) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4k9Fm_OG8s
- **2021-07-01** — The Konya plain sinkholes. Over-pumping of groundwater for farming has pockmarked Turkey's Konya plain with hundreds of sinkholes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4c6809be-c565-4b48-9abc-dadb272821ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRrp_9oRNts
- **2021-07-01** — The Iranian water crisis. Years of drought have dried Iran's lakes and rivers, sparking protests over water in 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/571d87e8-17df-4bae-8eb2-8f944d5edd98) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yo-ODh8ZbA
- **2021-07-01** — The 2021 Siberian wildfires. Record wildfires burned across Siberia's boreal forests and permafrost, larger than all other fires combined that year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/691278d5-4006-4350-85ff-c75e1b4f62ca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvC4oHRUrqU
- **2021-07-03** — The 1919 Kelud eruption. An eruption of Java's Kelud volcano blasted out its crater lake, sending lahars that killed over 5,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6c986b11-6811-4dc9-b8b7-5689cebac112) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfkbuhavl_w
- **2021-07-03** — The 2021 Atami mudslide. A debris flow tore through the Japanese resort town of Atami, captured live on video. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cc84e913-485b-4362-83dc-230c859b4da9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=821aLwmKyfM
- **2021-07-14** — The 2021 European floods. Extreme rainfall sent catastrophic flash floods through Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, killing over 240. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1773e573-1899-469f-861d-576d6f2f88c2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGwuw-Pt1Es
- **2021-07-14** — The 2021 European floods. Catastrophic flash floods swept through Germany's Ahr valley and Belgium, killing over 220. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fe661bd8-1b0f-4c20-a469-fe9c1e3bc43d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrRz6USX-hI
- **2021-07-20** — The 2021 Henan floods. A year's rain fell in days on Zhengzhou, China, flooding a subway line and killing over 300. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/51f14115-d092-4f27-a181-48ca62c98ff5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mwl-Uua2w8
- **2021-07-27** — The 1993 Black Storm of the Gobi. A colossal dust storm swept China's northwest in 1993, killing dozens in a black wall of sand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/481cc2c1-f548-46fa-9bb8-21923c172376) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7jCBbHw0ag
- **2021-07-28** — The 2021 Turkey wildfires. Wildfires swept Turkey's Mediterranean coast during a record heatwave in 2021, forcing tourists to flee by boat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/057daea8-20c3-419f-9fe7-310c94b145be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wLhfpa01LY
- **2021-07-28** — The 2021 Mediterranean wildfires. Extreme heat drove wildfires across Turkey, Greece and the Mediterranean in a record summer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d0d0f4e9-a663-4f73-b3f9-d8b514dbff7b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrM63wiY6_c
- **2021-08-03** — The 2021 Greek wildfires. Wildfires swept Evia and the outskirts of Athens during a record heatwave in 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/dbab1fc1-6ca2-48b5-a4c6-d940fc97ca6f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kAfHQanlA4
- **2021-08-05** — Nevado del Ruiz eruption. The eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz melted its glacier and buried Armero, killing 23,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/02ecb456-1994-4002-97b3-c847d4dac439) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukB_EYoP20o
- **2021-08-19** — Giant hail — the deadliest on record. The heaviest hailstones ever recorded — up to 1 kg — killed 92 in Gopalganj, Bangladesh in 1986; giant hail like this still smashes roofs and cars worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8dcccf37-a241-4f84-97fd-739dc69a9262) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8PZtY3kVk
- **2021-08-21** — The 2021 Waverly flash flood. A record cloudburst sent a flash flood through Waverly, Tennessee, killing 20. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f91c9675-820f-4291-b84a-b4f5bb67f6cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPXP4Ba1GmQ
- **2021-08-29** — Hurricane Ida. struck Louisiana on Katrina's anniversary, then drowned basements as far as New York City. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/05bb6a75-3dc5-4627-8a25-65bcbdc8bada) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzucjcLsyxE
- **2021-09-11** — The 1936 North American heat wave. The most intense heat wave in North American history killed thousands amid the Dust Bowl in 1936. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/93e0b76a-234a-4398-a2e5-f8c80b25822c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8VH5Ba9IWE
- **2021-09-19** — The 2021 La Palma eruption. The Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted for months on La Palma in the Canary Islands, its lava destroying thousands of homes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/958a2be0-e058-4f36-961a-4c4c18951856) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PovnqYAt8I8
- **2021-12-04** — The 2021 Semeru eruption. Java's Semeru erupted with pyroclastic flows and lahars that buried villages, killing over 50. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0d3efd37-ccfd-478f-99d5-66aca8a30623) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT8m15Q09Fw
- **2021-12-05** — The Rapid City flood. A flash flood tore through Rapid City, South Dakota, killing 238 after a dam failed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a3f9f788-df29-42ee-8cfc-9713cb1b2336) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68rbvkFOuTU
- **2021-12-10** — The Quad-State tornado. A single supercell spawned a tornado family that tracked for over 160 miles across four states in December 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/083ca068-6e4a-490a-b05f-911b09c80632) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzzvLkTbPI
- **2021-12-10** — The 2021 Mayfield tornado. A long-track December tornado devastated Mayfield, Kentucky, part of a deadly out-of-season outbreak. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b21b9554-d075-4c99-b222-99a12229ba21) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbPFf2-h0UE
- **2021-12-19** — The 1902 Santa María eruption. One of the largest eruptions of the 20th century struck Guatemala, killing thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/24a1eb0f-1039-435d-b40b-6b1e9d45676e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBXkmUBAJmw
### 2022
- **2022-01-01** — The Harmattan. Each winter the dry, dusty Harmattan wind blows off the Sahara across West Africa, hazing the sky for months. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/111f9f0b-d366-434f-8b1d-5768f4175f07) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtcWW8qbjyg
- **2022-01-01** — The Horn of Africa drought. The worst drought in 40 years struck the Horn of Africa, threatening millions with famine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9b5f2be9-f057-4b8f-a0c1-a88f9e99e847) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbYe0lFadg
- **2022-01-01** — Snow squalls. Sudden, blinding bursts of heavy snow and wind cause instant whiteouts and deadly highway pile-ups. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e2577187-9385-4085-a17f-a06d6ee1f5e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgvUBeX-eQ
- **2022-01-01** — The Red Sea urchin die-off. A mystery disease wiped out sea urchins across the Red Sea and Mediterranean from 2022, threatening reefs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e3bcd131-aea1-4c16-8475-1cc71d8455e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ1x64eQuf8
- **2022-01-15** — The 2022 Tonga eruption & tsunami. The Hunga Tonga volcano erupted with the force of a huge bomb, sending a tsunami and a pressure wave around the entire planet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2aeca07d-0f2d-4775-bf56-4f69d8966ac3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TewQm8Zxew4
- **2022-01-15** — The Hunga Tonga eruption. An undersea volcano near Tonga produced the most powerful explosion in over a century and a global pressure wave. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9c4bbd13-ae73-4dac-a578-f5aaa308648b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6tSDlfV-BM
- **2022-01-25** — The Knickerbocker Storm. A blizzard collapsed the roof of Washington's Knickerbocker Theatre in 1922, killing 98. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b1c80af3-7186-496f-aaa9-0c8d57923fd2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKMD5jkdF94
- **2022-01-26** — The 1967 Chicago blizzard. A blizzard dumped record snow on Chicago in 1967, stranding thousands of cars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d98175ce-70f1-4f5c-b6ce-0a3fee62eb58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mdnI7TLus
- **2022-01-31** — The 2022 Quito landslide. A mudslide swept through a district of Quito, Ecuador, in 2022 after record rain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8cd4ae6c-bbce-4e30-9447-5e574b5e0a7b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7XUS3sHXKE
- **2022-02-01** — The 2022 Corrientes fires. Fires driven by a historic drought burned a tenth of Argentina's Corrientes province in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/acabb2c7-ee3e-4107-9e07-4b4bb6d5f4ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b1Eo4ZX8T4
- **2022-02-05** — Cyclone Batsirai. struck Madagascar in 2022, weeks after another storm had already flooded the island. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ba7785f5-c72b-4a14-a5ae-dd85364b13d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTdeoSiE2N0
- **2022-02-11** — The 1970 Val d'Isère avalanche. An avalanche struck a youth hostel at Val d'Isère in the French Alps in 1970, killing 39. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1398d006-ea96-4b55-999b-38b0297de729) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q-v_-PB6Ww
- **2022-02-15** — The 2022 Petrópolis landslides. Torrential rain triggered landslides that buried parts of Petrópolis, Brazil, killing over 230. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4ae5d4f7-4d96-480c-8205-0b293ee2f28c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGOktHnZros
- **2022-02-18** — Storm Eunice. tore across Britain, Ireland and northwest Europe in 2022 with record gusts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/52acc346-def2-4e29-bc9c-07e0f1a18fc7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP7AdYRSys0
- **2022-03-01** — The 2022 La Niña bleaching. For the first time, the Great Barrier Reef bleached during a cool La Niña year in 2022 — a grim milestone. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/be348a59-2689-45bb-8534-c200c154c37e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8FNx_rkbc
- **2022-04-04** — The 1905 Kangra earthquake. An earthquake in the Indian Himalayas killed some 20,000 and destroyed the town of Kangra. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e8adfa04-bb34-4a1a-bd36-27ceb8d596ad) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usn9rxKm_S0
- **2022-04-06** — The 2022 New Mexico fires. The largest wildfire in New Mexico history, partly sparked by a botched controlled burn, raged in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b561d6c4-e236-4771-b555-2abb551da731) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKUQGDFSxrQ
- **2022-04-11** — The 2022 KwaZulu-Natal floods. Record rain caused catastrophic floods and landslides around Durban, South Africa, in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8c15786e-4de9-49da-923f-b52b4a892473) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UBOQFCuVkI
- **2022-05-02** — The 1970 Ancash earthquake. Peru's deadliest natural disaster; the quake killed about 70,000, including 20,000 buried by the Huascarán avalanche. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4f1f4698-d2e2-45db-971a-0ff60aaacbae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLjQ7djyLjU
- **2022-05-11** — The hailstorms of Hail Alley. The high plains where Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming meet get more giant hail than anywhere in North America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5f5ebdc6-687a-480c-8eeb-4a71e3740f26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAqbZvYcLMo
- **2022-06-01** — The drying of the Po. Italy's longest river shrank to a trickle in the 2022 drought, exposing wartime wrecks and starving rice fields. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f342a1fa-916b-4121-a832-2417c12b3299) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAMvfterWnM
- **2022-06-18** — The 1980 More Trees derecho. A powerful derecho raced across the U.S. in 1980, one of the events that defined the phenomenon. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0769c898-e19f-4d24-b76e-042e81103bd1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-dMEXJ62O8
- **2022-06-22** — The 2022 Afghanistan earthquake. A quake struck rural eastern Afghanistan, killing over 1,000 in remote mountain villages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/18403cf8-283e-4d44-956b-89098e6bc4ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPumWX3w4iE
- **2022-07-01** — The 2022 European heatwave & drought. Europe's worst drought in 500 years dried rivers to their beds and drove record heat, with over 60,000 heat-related deaths. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0523726c-e76d-4d0c-88e7-fc19715c811d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaRChK-9g4w
- **2022-07-01** — The Mediterranean marine heatwaves. Record sea heat is now cooking the Mediterranean each summer, killing seagrass, corals and shellfish. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4a2a989b-1464-4fa6-b93e-c1ab78ef6ced) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbjg8g9CV2o
- **2022-07-01** — The 2022 Spain and Portugal fires. A brutal summer of heat drove huge wildfires across Spain and Portugal in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c3e228c1-13b1-426c-beb0-f39822b4c6b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_aE4MJoA4
- **2022-07-03** — The 2022 Marmolada serac collapse. A chunk of glacier broke loose on Italy's Marmolada in a summer heatwave, killing 11 hikers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/43c610ca-ab74-4a9b-b2e5-36ff5cb46d20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWHVHfh7jx4
- **2022-07-05** — Green skies and severe storms. When a storm turns the sky an eerie green, it often signals a violent hailstorm or derecho — as over South Dakota in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5f633cf7-472b-48c0-9f18-1189e23cf0fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXL-f62_R-k
- **2022-07-21** — The 1952 Kamchatka tsunami. A great earthquake off Kamchatka sent a Pacific-wide tsunami that struck Hawaii and the Kuril Islands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ee372f13-ebab-445e-a7b6-dde084a870d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UYMv0OvQOw
- **2022-07-28** — The 2022 Kentucky floods. Flash floods tore through the hollows of eastern Kentucky in 2022, killing dozens in Appalachia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bb3ea77d-8992-4d46-b51d-b9c355b716c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynt0aoNQjG8
- **2022-08-01** — The 1976 Big Thompson flash flood. A flash flood roared down a Colorado canyon packed with holiday-makers, killing 144. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5fc46916-110e-4b30-9fe7-0ee4ff8e5aa8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sfWmoEO8C8
- **2022-08-01** — The 2022 Pakistan floods. Record monsoon rains and glacial melt put a third of Pakistan underwater, killing over 1,700 and displacing 33 million. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/65a27dd4-a1a2-47ba-ac65-7a02eb3d9b26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THMkzr09O-A
- **2022-08-01** — The drying of the Colorado River. By 2022 the megadrought had dropped Lakes Mead and Powell so low that the Colorado's water deliveries were cut. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6e420a79-44c2-4fc4-ad68-c477d92faf53) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkkPL6VV4U
- **2022-08-01** — The 2022 China heat and drought. A record heatwave dried up stretches of the Yangtze and forced factory shutdowns across China. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d72db652-dde2-4474-b458-ef302b33fa03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeL7tKcaadw
- **2022-08-24** — The 1987 Edmonton tornado. 'Black Friday' — an F4 tornado tore through Edmonton, Canada, killing 27. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f145ebb5-92ad-4d6d-b524-53fd4616f8dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuSu58cJuZ0
- **2022-08-30** — The 2022 Girona hailstorm. Grapefruit-sized hail killed a toddler and injured dozens in Girona, Spain, in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/16606616-28a1-4d38-ac00-a52bf19d5ff5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COUO1DVZaSE
- **2022-09-01** — The 2022 Nigeria floods. The worst floods in a decade submerged much of Nigeria, killing over 600 and displacing 1.4 million. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/20fa7724-bda4-4313-af4a-de504401c382) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFLY633g0WI
- **2022-09-19** — The 2022 Michoacán earthquake. An earthquake struck western Mexico in 2022 on the anniversary of the 1985 and 2017 quakes — a chilling coincidence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5a912600-8afd-4d8b-b0b1-7f0afc580d1b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVuNoKBtT8
- **2022-09-28** — Hurricane Ian. A powerful Category 4 hurricane devastated southwest Florida with a catastrophic surge, killing over 150. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4d47f1e3-90e2-445f-b46f-cd0c606c2ab8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6usf1rLBtpo
- **2022-10-04** — The 1963 Vajont Dam disaster. A landslide into the reservoir behind Italy's Vajont Dam sent a wave over the top that destroyed villages below, killing about 2,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4922ad45-aea6-4301-8c6b-930494fd272a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dou2r4fUFwg
- **2022-10-26** — Hurricane Gloria. the 'storm of the century' hype of 1985, raked the U.S. Northeast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/75ac914b-7f5a-4402-b89d-3cc3703b09f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LzWDpzviYw
- **2022-11-10** — Hurricane Nicole. collapsed beachfront homes into the sea along Florida's coast in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4d1bb055-86b1-4e16-b8a0-44fa3fbd14d8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN09CwTcq4k
- **2022-11-21** — The 2022 Cianjur earthquake. A shallow earthquake struck Cianjur on Java, Indonesia, in 2022, killing over 600, many of them children. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d4dbd98a-dad6-4d3b-9d42-c7536fe620c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HrqfCtpEI
- **2022-12-01** — The 2022-23 South American drought. A three-year drought devastated crops across Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8445d152-3b1d-44bd-a94c-c1a4450f3871) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ng6GeWY9U
- **2022-12-23** — The 2022 Buffalo blizzard. A ferocious lake-effect blizzard buried Buffalo, New York, over Christmas, killing dozens trapped in their cars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/706a7bfc-d171-4b49-bda4-acd205c7753b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2i39iKlFVs
- **2022-12-29** — The tsunami hits Thailand. Tourists on Thai beaches filmed the sea withdraw and return as a wall of water on Boxing Day 2004. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8847dd61-569c-4e0d-82d2-f5c3c326da66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ_sYtBWYFs
### 2023
- **2023-01-01** — The cover-collapse sinkholes. 'Cover-collapse' sinkholes open abruptly under roads, homes and cars across the karst belts of the world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4db75897-1fce-450f-83ef-0a99a5d20a72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGvp-BGIrNM
- **2023-01-01** — The North African water crisis. Multi-year drought has emptied reservoirs across Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, forcing water rationing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b9172d97-89b8-4142-b8c7-30eeb10d0734) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cG0eKG_AeM
- **2023-01-01** — The Bering Sea fishery collapses. Warming has crashed one Bering Sea fishery after another, from snow crab to Pacific cod. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/baef7e4b-1c3b-4096-b171-16bdff8c2fbd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hpUrPOkkoQ
- **2023-01-01** — The Peruvian anchovy collapse. El Niño warmth periodically collapses the vast Peruvian anchovy fishery, the world's largest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bb8f49af-ec4c-48aa-b414-d331a72989aa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBu-yqf_Ots
- **2023-01-08** — The 1989 Daulatpur-Saturia tornado. The deadliest tornado in world history killed roughly 1,300 people in Bangladesh's Manikganj district. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/304daf55-78a8-4ebd-b99a-244cbe278eb1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auD0NXEekDI
- **2023-01-10** — The 2023 Afghanistan cold wave. An extreme cold snap killed over 160 people and countless livestock across Afghanistan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/37f1cee1-bd5f-4872-a09d-73029775f4e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mezuAsxikvU
- **2023-01-18** — The 2003 Canberra bushfires. Firestorms swept into the Australian capital, destroying 500 homes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ce2c828f-3fe1-475a-b075-289b48855ba7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daCpgpLBsXo
- **2023-01-21** — The Malpasset Dam disaster. France's Malpasset Dam burst in 1959, sending a wave through Fréjus that killed over 400. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2b03201f-c58d-4c95-b034-65a09c0173f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T59-NVMqz-g
- **2023-01-24** — The 2023 Nathu La avalanche. An avalanche struck tourists near the Nathu La pass in Sikkim, India, in early 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/afb3fa0f-74b0-496f-bb56-2e73535c8a1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Ob14bqipE
- **2023-01-27** — The 2023 Auckland floods. Auckland's wettest day on record flooded New Zealand's largest city in January 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/352e2920-d1fb-4d3d-adb6-d95bb659b805) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtURSCu8nys
- **2023-02-01** — Cyclone Freddy. The longest-lived tropical cyclone on record crossed the entire Indian Ocean and devastated Malawi and Mozambique. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/44dd4021-3b70-47af-8ce7-f9d9f01c7065) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFiI3wMqLk
- **2023-02-06** — The 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes. Twin quakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 struck southern Turkey and Syria, killing more than 55,000 in one of the region's worst disasters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0f44976d-f77e-490e-8900-9c47893401ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g3T2vTTdw4
- **2023-02-16** — The 1931 China floods. The Yangtze and Huai river floods of 1931 killed an estimated 1-4 million people — likely the deadliest natural disaster in recorded history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/62538fe7-5fed-40e7-94ce-c89291e20a43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqWjGjTEbos
- **2023-03-21** — The great Indian hailstorms. Deadly hailstorms strike the Indian subcontinent each year, killing farm workers caught in the open. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ad4ae2e4-9688-4d45-9d67-0da2e7f913c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73i7c4LEXXo
- **2023-03-24** — The 2023 Rolling Fork tornado. A violent tornado nearly wiped out Rolling Fork, Mississippi, in 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5cd05ee7-710f-450e-80e5-943ab162e284) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMQgNfuuxRE
- **2023-03-24** — The 1964 Alaska tsunamis. The Good Friday quake's tsunamis destroyed Alaskan and Pacific coast towns from Valdez to Crescent City. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/794b6d28-f855-454c-93de-d1fad76e825f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxgj3OBJHYM
- **2023-04-03** — The Bengal famine of 1943. Wartime policy, hoarding and a cyclone caused a famine that killed up to three million in Bengal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cf72d903-445f-499c-a79e-0645f9ff8721) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amV_XKaiTKE
- **2023-04-11** — The 2023 Beijing sandstorms. A series of sandstorms turned Beijing's sky yellow again in the spring of 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/07f63dfd-bb14-4674-943b-7f52dcf3f15b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A17QjiqtFk
- **2023-04-11** — The 2023 Shiveluch eruption. Russia's Kamchatka volcano Shiveluch erupted in 2023, burying villages in the deepest ashfall in decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4608e9db-dad9-4a4e-9b6e-828d4ce82516) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzKDthkeQEg
- **2023-04-18** — The 1983 Thistle landslide. A slow landslide dammed a river and buried the town of Thistle, Utah — the costliest U.S. landslide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/172a267a-f5ad-46b1-96fa-22b15c4b60f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLnjnLzsOI0
- **2023-04-19** — The Great Chinese Famine. The world's deadliest famine, driven by policy and drought, killed tens of millions in China from 1959. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/eb291d7c-35cb-4f8b-96ff-ae3758aa218a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9H8pxLe74I
- **2023-05-11** — The 2003 Oklahoma City tornado. A tornado struck the Oklahoma City area again in 2003, four years after the record 1999 storm. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/42ff9b4f-a396-4e6c-9511-60103b39ac7d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0qC8_bhK7Q
- **2023-05-14** — Cyclone Mocha. One of the strongest cyclones on record in the Bay of Bengal battered Myanmar and Bangladesh's Rohingya camps. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/be10a528-1c16-4536-8215-576bfdbe36e7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10mTSHYZoVI
- **2023-06-01** — The 2023-24 global coral bleaching. The fourth global mass-bleaching event, driven by record ocean temperatures, hit reefs across all three ocean basins. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/02320174-f99b-49c1-9c8c-b2957f2bf00e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xChllNiZdHk
- **2023-06-01** — Mormon cricket infestations. Periodic swarms of flightless Mormon crickets carpet roads and towns across the American West, a recurring biblical-scale infestation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4beb3b54-0a3c-4d78-9045-12b25b638ba6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7vkvMFdm0o
- **2023-06-01** — Volcanic and storm lightning shows. Some of the most intense lightning storms on Earth strobe continuously through supercells and volcanic ash clouds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/64bac949-2c4b-4a06-804b-59d35a7fcde9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVD-9GCHO18
- **2023-06-01** — The 2023 Canadian wildfires. Canada's worst-ever wildfire season burned 18 million hectares and blanketed North American cities in smoke. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/72aad3d1-4911-4824-ae3b-159ff1e48ab0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hucw1XsUlLM
- **2023-06-09** — The 1953 Worcester tornado. An F4 tornado struck Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94 in one of New England's rare violent tornadoes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5bcf4681-3631-4539-ac69-3f0b903c31e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkBBokAel3Y
- **2023-06-14** — The 1903 Heppner flash flood. A flash flood roared down a canyon into Heppner, Oregon, killing about 250 in minutes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6f9fd0cc-a52b-43de-847e-aee7402e090f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfw35kfunqE
- **2023-06-15** — The Miramichi Fire. One of the largest recorded forest fires in North America burned much of New Brunswick, Canada, in 1825. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/244338b6-2dee-465b-9df3-8a1fb36513c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FxQOG6zHNA
- **2023-06-15** — The 1998 global bleaching event. The first global mass-bleaching event, driven by a strong El Niño, killed reefs around the world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/addf69b3-92ec-4f93-82c0-6f83486a6a1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enneEAWv1pQ
- **2023-07-01** — The 2023 Florida ocean heat. Ocean temperatures off Florida hit hot-tub levels above 38°C, bleaching and killing coral in the Keys. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9179f749-02b0-4943-bdb6-ec0f7ce64281) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz7u0wu-X1A
- **2023-07-01** — The Stava dam disaster. The collapse of two mine-tailings dams above Stava in Italy sent a wave of mud that killed 268 in 1985. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d5694e9c-6272-4e4c-9467-5024983af0e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaLTcqNwuYc
- **2023-07-19** — The 2023 northern Italy hailstorms. Supercells dropped record-breaking hail — up to 19 cm — across northern Italy, the largest ever measured in Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0aa0f3f3-847b-45aa-8ee0-4db11bd359a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bEfmBG8_rE
- **2023-07-24** — The Florida coral rescue. As 2023's ocean heat bleached the Florida reef, scientists raced to pull coral into tanks to save it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1d707f82-e275-4e63-aa3a-24ffc61f6cd4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAsbtD3HFEg
- **2023-07-24** — The 1937 Hong Kong typhoon. A typhoon drove a deadly surge into Hong Kong in 1937, killing some 11,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b8a6d425-1350-4abd-b204-64f904d4b545) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS0ikk2YxWE
- **2023-08-01** — The 2023 Slovenia floods. Slovenia's worst floods in a century inundated much of the country in August 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/588369d2-c345-4c47-bf91-085aeac71c16) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8PS0YlgcRw
- **2023-08-08** — The 2023 Maui fires. A wind-driven wildfire destroyed the historic town of Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii, killing at least 100. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d35cf49b-4f1f-453f-9c86-7e9d2ee60a35) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew4MHxGLs3M
- **2023-08-20** — Hurricane Hilary. A rare tropical storm, Hilary, brought flooding rains to Southern California and the desert in 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/58404f3c-d695-4e91-a89f-ef8a9c967413) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1WHNv7isWs
- **2023-08-31** — The 1993 Okushiri tsunami. A tsunami struck the small Japanese island of Okushiri within minutes of an earthquake, killing about 200. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ae6aa155-a689-44fe-bef9-5c48e7c92dfe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIrMJk9Dbxs
- **2023-09-02** — The Armero tragedy. Melting ice from an eruption of Nevado del Ruiz sent lahars into Armero, Colombia, killing 23,000 — most famously the girl Omayra Sánchez. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4c450eea-069c-4916-90a2-31946c73fa31) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpD16effFiQ
- **2023-09-05** — Storm Daniel floods Greece. Before it burst Libya's dams, Storm Daniel dropped record rain on Thessaly, Greece, in 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c11c19e9-ddd3-4190-999b-f07b95424d86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfzADISic_0
- **2023-09-07** — The 2023 Hong Kong deluge. Hong Kong's heaviest rain since records began in 1884 turned streets and metro stations into rivers in 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a6e0c655-c215-4025-8b35-7bd228f78a2c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwRnMFXG46c
- **2023-09-08** — The 2023 Morocco earthquake. A magnitude 6.8 quake struck the High Atlas mountains near Marrakesh, killing nearly 3,000 in remote villages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/10ef9aa3-8527-4e02-a056-86715a05509e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sBHIJaxx6Y
- **2023-09-10** — The 2023 Derna dam flood. Storm Daniel burst two dams above Derna, Libya, sending a flood that swept a quarter of the city into the sea, killing over 11,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/026550fc-b1db-4176-a644-112c52b4ddbe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CEID76uTFc
- **2023-10-01** — The 2023 Amazon drought. A historic drought dropped Amazon rivers to record lows, stranding communities and killing river dolphins. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2b4cd865-4cc4-4c49-a66d-99b6810a7b48) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv4ifRGXN1c
- **2023-10-07** — The 2023 Herat earthquakes. A series of earthquakes flattened villages near Herat, Afghanistan, killing thousands, most of them women and children. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d5593fe2-54ad-4884-a20e-a527839c4750) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPdnBo8i5wo
- **2023-10-25** — Hurricane Otis. Otis explosively intensified into a Category 5 and devastated Acapulco, Mexico, with almost no warning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2d7cb710-4a45-4489-9dce-38c48655c564) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pb9iq4cbS8
- **2023-11-11** — The 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard. An unforecast blizzard trapped duck hunters and travellers across the U.S. Midwest, killing 145. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7045b117-36c4-4ee1-b1c9-477896ffcdbd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jne2kumI6k
- **2023-11-23** — The Black Friday bushfires. Bushfires burned nearly two million hectares of Victoria, Australia, on 'Black Friday' 1939. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e48442c1-f86a-4baf-bf32-cd3c902c772b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUbtI2ciBLI
- **2023-12-03** — The 2023 Marapi eruption. A sudden eruption of Indonesia's Marapi volcano in 2023 killed climbers on its slopes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e1b09d15-b6d1-498e-a1c0-778c2baaf8fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ewZBKf98Qo
- **2023-12-13** — The White Friday avalanches, 1916. During WWI, avalanches — some triggered deliberately — killed thousands of soldiers in the Italian Alps in a single week. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/efb68b80-4d45-4c0e-9421-af6da44c694c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUWKReAOP9M
- **2023-12-19** — The 1927 Gulang earthquake. A powerful earthquake struck Gansu, China, killing an estimated 40,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a939e292-f5d2-4efd-99f9-c22457aea9db) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u6JWGZtBQM
### 2024
- **2024-01-01** — The 2024 Noto earthquake. A magnitude 7.6 quake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day, triggering a tsunami and fires. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/106d213e-5916-4773-b598-d1506db72a1c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEWy8ONFl4k
- **2024-01-01** — The recurring locust threat. Warming and rain keep re-igniting desert-locust breeding, a standing threat to Africa and South Asia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7c942f47-5a11-408a-bcf1-f88c8ee5387b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFJzlX6U3Tc
- **2024-01-03** — The 2024 Nordic deep freeze. Temperatures plunged below -40°C across Scandinavia in early 2024 in a historic cold snap. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9b85d78f-3617-4599-88a5-19b013f0b6b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHGBN_3ZEOY
- **2024-01-14** — The Grindavík eruptions. Eruptions on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula from late 2023 forced the evacuation of the town of Grindavík. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/56248324-28d6-4fc4-95a3-72fe7b73d87f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VT2xqWP8zY
- **2024-01-15** — The Matheson Fire. A firestorm swept through northern Ontario in 1916, killing over 200 in one of Canada's deadliest fires. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/686b753a-4e53-4152-95b4-09def7b6f671) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7LEzbAxzrY
- **2024-01-16** — The 1974 Super Outbreak. In 18 hours, 148 tornadoes tore across 13 U.S. states, the most violent tornado outbreak ever recorded until 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/92aa4778-0a15-440a-8a10-ca08238f69f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMnuLOf9mSg
- **2024-01-22** — The 2024 Yunnan landslide. A landslide buried a village in China's Yunnan province in the depth of winter in 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/0ee99d10-d3a6-4cdc-84e3-c5e5f5eee478) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBspYUuGCNk
- **2024-02-02** — The 2024 Chile wildfires. Fast-moving fires swept into Viña del Mar and Valparaíso, killing over 130 in Chile's worst fire disaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bc0f105c-fe9a-452d-9664-ae9c617fe1e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ZmbY1dbAg
- **2024-02-03** — The 1972 Iran blizzard. The deadliest blizzard in history buried villages in southern Iran under metres of snow, killing about 4,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/134d62f0-2906-4203-a6bf-cde466be3f4b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq7qUMvyyKo
- **2024-02-26** — The Smokehouse Creek Fire. The largest wildfire in Texas history burned across the Panhandle in early 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/bca4329f-eb13-4f18-b0b6-97994225ec15) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UklhBF-qKW4
- **2024-03-01** — The 1954 Yangtze floods. The 1954 Yangtze River floods were among the worst of the century, killing over 30,000 in China. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/07ae6c86-a8e4-4c53-aa61-a168acb293b7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzsXwALu4AU
- **2024-03-01** — The 1910 Wellington avalanche. An avalanche swept two trains off the tracks near Wellington, Washington, killing 96 — the deadliest in U.S. history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a4d9b5c9-92ed-4a47-a755-5a89c710a29a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJfCSVkOBnM
- **2024-03-01** — The 2024 global bleaching event. The fourth global mass-bleaching event, declared in 2024, hit reefs across every ocean at once. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c191c8e0-5310-4304-b838-cd573e08624a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME9Cf8mXUWw
- **2024-04-01** — The 2024 East Africa floods. Heavy rains and flooding devastated Kenya, Tanzania and the region, killing hundreds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/78b62169-12a2-48c9-99b8-2e7089ea1f43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw2PvQ_bZWo
- **2024-04-03** — The 2024 Hualien earthquake. Taiwan's strongest quake in 25 years struck near Hualien, toppling buildings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/af203265-8db5-4ed7-9260-680540c0d6b7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npJsNzC0pr8
- **2024-04-16** — The 2024 Dubai floods. A year's rain fell in a day on the UAE, flooding Dubai's malls, roads and airport in a desert deluge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6b277c7a-f7e2-4b7d-b24d-3b7e9c5a890e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMKfCIhHaoY
- **2024-04-17** — The 2024 Ruang eruption. Indonesia's Ruang volcano erupted explosively in 2024, forcing mass evacuations and closing airports. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c4901d3e-8675-470e-8829-1f37d6287ed3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFwr229xWg
- **2024-05-01** — The 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods. Catastrophic floods submerged Porto Alegre and much of southern Brazil in the state's worst disaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/15c967df-af50-47df-a13e-aa9ec1a49a19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i91grMIJtXA
- **2024-05-01** — The 2024 South Asia heatwave. A prolonged, deadly heatwave gripped India and Pakistan, with Delhi hitting record temperatures. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7ce9afbd-beaa-4855-bb0b-2751a45b7a24) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWhKe0VRbI
- **2024-05-01** — The 2024 Mexico heat and water crisis. A brutal heatwave and drought dried reservoirs and killed howler monkeys across Mexico in 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ab50d4ce-cdd1-4269-961e-75a5ae5ed0c5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czH2eayd0lg
- **2024-05-01** — The 2024 double cicada emergence. Two periodical cicada broods — one 13-year, one 17-year — emerged together across the U.S. for the first time since 1803, in the trillions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c6b84634-f465-4ecf-a324-6c6b2fd17cd9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUwG9VN2YPk
- **2024-05-06** — The 2024 tornado super-season. The spring of 2024 brought one of the most active severe-storm seasons on record across the U.S. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/48d88a12-cfb1-4bd3-aa36-4dd27b006fbb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjO55_bNHKo
- **2024-05-12** — The 1970 Lubbock tornado. A tornado tore through downtown Lubbock, Texas, reshaping how scientists rate tornado damage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b7c4c98e-e1b7-4250-849b-275dee834d9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CIyUsbNLSQ
- **2024-05-18** — The 1908 Messina tsunami. The great Messina earthquake sent a tsunami up to 12 metres high into the Strait, adding to the catastrophe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d8900cb7-d449-4712-a1f0-eae55e062440) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKOZ7ky4U9o
- **2024-06-03** — The 2024 Kanlaon eruption. The Philippines' Kanlaon volcano erupted explosively in 2024, dusting towns and forcing evacuations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f0cd70a2-c384-4719-b593-664de8d460fe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk6k0CcJbFs
- **2024-06-09** — The 1993 Galeras eruption. Colombia's Galeras erupted while scientists stood in its crater, killing nine of them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7861c8ce-a15f-4726-abe8-e925ae3749a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWqXtX2i-W8
- **2024-06-15** — The Indian famine of 1899-1900. One of the worst famines in Indian history followed the failure of the monsoon in 1899. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/83a36e61-5c08-457f-b1a7-6f3f12e15e44) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSnhCjOfHaQ
- **2024-07-01** — Hurricane Beryl. The earliest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane on record devastated the Windward Islands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2e14e440-b89e-408c-8b1b-6c9e4c9f0fd7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYPJsPIqk8
- **2024-07-01** — The 2024 Sicily and Sardinia drought. Sicily declared a state of emergency as reservoirs ran dry in the 2024 Mediterranean drought. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f24f49c5-b269-4480-96bd-1adfd01ff3be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icb0onHHGU0
- **2024-07-02** — The 1951 Mount Lamington eruption. A pyroclastic eruption of Papua New Guinea's Mount Lamington killed about 3,000 in 1951. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/81e929bb-953f-4272-897f-3c655a04c147) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrS3OsuKFwg
- **2024-07-10** — Cyclones of the smaller islands. Small island nations from the Caribbean to the Pacific are repeatedly devastated by cyclones far beyond their means to recover. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5bee7c18-41ec-48f5-a99e-0d31c9174e25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozX6236YI5g
- **2024-07-22** — The Jasper wildfire. A wildfire tore into the townsite of Jasper in the Canadian Rockies in 2024, destroying a third of the town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a359e7ad-928a-4807-adc6-2efdcb873eaa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3hqJcMvH3s
- **2024-07-30** — The 2024 Wayanad landslides. Massive landslides buried villages in Wayanad, Kerala, India, in 2024, killing hundreds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8a3cca88-1c65-4481-b446-434d28eb60bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reRIfvINUSI
- **2024-08-15** — The Banqiao Dam failure. A typhoon caused China's Banqiao and other dams to fail in a cascade, killing an estimated 170,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/71d9ca07-1939-4a14-b17a-efb50499ba2d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ktytjKI9I
- **2024-09-06** — Typhoon Yagi. 2024's most powerful storm, devastated Vietnam, the Philippines and southern China. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/792ce8e1-785b-4b35-aa62-c0d983402e7c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WL6ZhAjRyk
- **2024-09-10** — The 2024 Maiduguri flood. A dam collapse flooded Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria in 2024, displacing over a million people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/83f02092-c515-4709-93c5-b3752f2f93e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEuuoiE2_3c
- **2024-09-16** — The 2024 Portugal wildfires. Wildfires swept northern and central Portugal in September 2024, killing several. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c832011e-e3cc-4ad5-8349-343bd6e8525b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeLKWyUn3-Y
- **2024-09-26** — Hurricane Helene. Helene's rains caused catastrophic flooding far inland in the Appalachians, devastating western North Carolina. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/69646761-091f-4ad5-8c52-e6379475ddbc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KteLvGfBnw
- **2024-10-09** — Hurricane Milton. Milton rapidly intensified and struck Florida weeks after Helene, spawning a deadly tornado outbreak. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/45987061-4d02-4ec3-9943-e61ce8008b3a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgq7vIRAxKE
- **2024-10-29** — The 2024 Valencia floods. A year's rain fell in hours over eastern Spain, sending flash floods through Valencia that killed over 220 — Spain's deadliest flood in decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ddabf4be-627d-4a0d-a5b7-bc5a61e198e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgLtqI4KHiY
- **2024-10-31** — Diverting the lava of Etna. In 1992 engineers used explosives and barriers to divert Mount Etna's lava away from the town of Zafferana. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6d83bf1d-a49e-46b2-846d-24ecca8cfa1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2XLccPBcQ
- **2024-12-03** — The 'December Giant' sinkhole. One of the largest natural sinkholes in the U.S. suddenly opened in Alabama in 1972. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/638a6bad-64d5-482d-b1b3-0fd7eea059ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaPVgRDzgGM
- **2024-12-03** — The Catatumbo lightning. Where Venezuela's Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo, lightning storms rage up to 300 nights a year — the most electric place on Earth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/be885d30-146c-4cbc-8bae-0b813c8a4a64) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp9fv43Lubo
- **2024-12-14** — Cyclone Chido. devastated the French island of Mayotte, flattening shantytowns in the archipelago's worst disaster in decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/60cd464a-4395-48eb-8c43-99820453c126) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OgZLdz-164
- **2024-12-18** — The 1999 Vanuatu tsunami. An earthquake sent a tsunami into Pentecost Island in Vanuatu in 1999, a warning acted on by local knowledge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b70efa51-a29d-4745-ace5-b4625857a7e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxlaq19MPM0
- **2024-12-25** — Cyclone Tracy. destroyed the Australian city of Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974, flattening most of its buildings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ce3c6ebd-dc6c-45eb-8057-4d53f09cda5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iegbCJHnGo8
### 2025
- **2025-01-01** — Lightning and the skyscraper. Tall towers like the Empire State Building are struck by lightning dozens of times a year, filmed in spectacular strikes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7270bf67-f3b6-49d9-a4db-d214cb5c6b03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7luwitusW0s
- **2025-01-01** — The recurring Brazil deluges. Southern and southeastern Brazil now flood catastrophically almost every year as rainfall intensifies. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d7287699-3c7b-46ad-aa61-da6b53ed4131) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0l0EfJUSqw
- **2025-01-06** — Australia's rabbit plagues. Rabbits, introduced in 1859, bred into a plague that stripped the Australian landscape before myxomatosis was released. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/55c5caf0-b39f-4f42-a34b-cd7b16d12a1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6E5sQ2dQg
- **2025-01-07** — The Great Chilean earthquake. The most powerful earthquake ever recorded — magnitude 9.5 — struck Valdivia, Chile, and sent a tsunami across the Pacific. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/65eb802b-a523-4ce0-8e0d-3c6c87da6dcb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZwBbn6Yrug
- **2025-01-07** — The 2025 Los Angeles fires. Wind-driven fires destroyed thousands of homes across Pacific Palisades and Altadena in a Los Angeles firestorm. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b1b5f6f1-2cc3-4320-a544-96ba96725fcc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noXHTfuY-yU
- **2025-01-07** — The 2025 Los Angeles fires. Hurricane-force winds drove wildfires through Pacific Palisades and Altadena, destroying thousands of homes in one of California's costliest fire disasters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ca50a7ea-b475-4732-93fa-b8f547a7b1f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UHSfJHc6H8
- **2025-01-15** — The St. Francis Dam disaster. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam sent a flood down to the sea in California, killing over 400 and ending an engineer's career. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/acae15c5-e23e-4266-b46a-0cbec49d09f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDS8a1zeSk
- **2025-01-21** — The 2025 Gulf Coast snowstorm. A rare, record snowstorm blanketed the U.S. Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida in January 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ee0149b8-6961-4a46-aebe-81487be3d3dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7DCCrIRJbM
- **2025-01-23** — Typhoon Tip. in 1979 remains the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/78827ac7-30b3-4ada-8a20-2999c7ed3b0d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QJ_DRtrl1k
- **2025-02-01** — The 2025 Arctic outbreaks. Repeated Arctic outbreaks in early 2025 brought record cold and snow deep into the U.S. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/27050f49-f8e9-4521-b042-0817a8c1a9d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZISn92j33M
- **2025-02-10** — The 1956 Amorgos tsunami. An earthquake in the Aegean sent a tsunami into the Greek Cyclades islands in 1956. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/849472a7-f4e7-460f-9fee-b8bbed33f70b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1T_TNgubmo
- **2025-03-08** — The 1966 flood of Florence. The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, drowning the city and damaging priceless Renaissance art and books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7aeb4d2d-ce3f-40d6-bf27-2ae18cdfe231) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUAjzRKDQIk
- **2025-03-18** — The 1925 Tri-State Tornado. The deadliest tornado in U.S. history tore 350 km across Missouri, Illinois and Indiana in over three hours, killing 695. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8e6e5e61-6a07-447d-aee9-8e139590cea5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObVJtVUuW6k
- **2025-03-22** — The 2025 South Korea wildfires. The worst wildfires in South Korea's history swept Uiseong and Andong, destroying an ancient temple. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ba1b7652-4bde-4e84-a156-52954bde3349) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FkGCm0zFeE
- **2025-03-28** — The 2025 Myanmar earthquake. A powerful magnitude 7.7 quake struck central Myanmar near Mandalay, causing catastrophic damage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/e6270100-4bf5-4a0f-99c3-83d7b61e0c6f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN1e1J1EpNM
- **2025-04-23** — The 1953 Waco tornado. A tornado tore through downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114 and helping launch modern tornado warnings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f48e50c9-5f1e-4dec-8b90-068d2ea62e9b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuafL-kuhkQ
- **2025-05-04** — The 1941 Huaraz outburst. A glacial lake outburst destroyed a third of Huaraz, Peru, in 1941, killing thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/9f093844-8286-462b-9f37-7f19edff7ddb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNjZ3D4tUdE
- **2025-05-06** — The 1976 Friuli earthquake. A quake devastated the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, killing nearly 1,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8fb05eeb-0d64-4ebd-9018-945afedc2e5c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG0prQ8ONQM
- **2025-05-12** — The 1996 Tangail tornado. One of the deadliest tornadoes in history struck the Tangail district of Bangladesh, killing around 700. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1b512902-f44a-43b0-b3b2-794dc0f55b66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBS4STk_wk
- **2025-06-13** — The abandonment of Plymouth. Repeated eruptions of the Soufrière Hills buried Montserrat's capital Plymouth, a modern Pompeii. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d0ce6ddf-c9c6-4c05-9c18-38f6cfc22dca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5U2dmXQKuY
- **2025-06-15** — The 1642 Kaifeng flood. Defenders deliberately breached the Yellow River's dikes to stop an army, drowning the city of Kaifeng. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1d814377-670c-4d3d-a284-a5f60eba73dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F2GheD3Vx4
- **2025-06-15** — The Antonine Plague. A pandemic, probably smallpox, swept the Roman Empire from 165 AD, killing millions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2edb7e6a-25a3-4f4d-aa82-7c806d31ee20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtg_JuuR21U
- **2025-06-15** — The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. The second-largest eruption of the 20th century, Pinatubo in the Philippines cooled global temperatures by half a degree for two years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5e8b0d00-a01a-4b00-9f6f-093a38865b84) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLX41NgGvc8
- **2025-06-18** — The 1911 Taal eruption. A violent eruption of the Philippines' Taal volcano in 1911 killed over 1,300. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/022ed87c-1ee0-46e3-a051-c2d40c3f18e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQU_wG9OXrA
- **2025-06-18** — The 2003 European heatwave. A record heatwave across Europe killed more than 70,000 people, most of them elderly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/92509913-0cab-455a-9a57-1b705818b8e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YLWCLcL4Wo
- **2025-06-25** — The 1945 Makran earthquake. A megathrust earthquake off Pakistan's Makran coast triggered a tsunami across the Arabian Sea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b30e9c3e-1d67-454a-8162-84d1b7b769e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1crmX3HMXA
- **2025-06-26** — The 2025 Mediterranean fires. Extreme heat drove wildfires across Turkey, Greece and the Mediterranean again in 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/836d6673-172a-4a18-9236-7da764c62be2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6wlP0g95SA
- **2025-07-01** — The 2025 European heatwaves. Extreme heat again gripped Europe in the summer of 2025, breaking records and fuelling wildfires. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/943be4f6-1a3b-4051-ad9a-8d78c9ff024d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4qGrFxFU7M
- **2025-07-09** — Ball lightning — the freak phenomenon. For centuries, witnesses have reported glowing balls of light drifting through storms — a rare, still-unexplained atmospheric mystery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/93ebb373-f8e3-411b-b06a-9b5fac2d7691) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMsGHmGxyxo
- **2025-07-09** — The El Chichón eruption. A surprise eruption of Mexico's El Chichón killed some 2,000 and injected a cooling haze worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c1593621-610b-4c3f-bc24-b70dbba76935) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcPH-Cz1ns
- **2025-07-12** — The 1990 Denver hailstorm. A hailstorm battered Denver in 1990, one of the costliest in U.S. history at the time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3438c7c1-283c-4502-8aa1-9cfa9c19327d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoW8zYwZBd8
- **2025-07-23** — The 1995 Chicago heatwave. A brutal heatwave killed over 700 people in Chicago in a week, mostly isolated elderly residents. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/42368fbb-a174-4bf3-828f-b89076c9cf80) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gek4Y4DeyX8
- **2025-07-24** — The 1920 Haiyuan landslides. China's Haiyuan earthquake triggered enormous loess landslides that buried villages, killing over 200,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/6dc5e07b-0c86-4e61-9361-3865bdf3ddc2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mNOJesNDhc
- **2025-07-24** — The 1946 Nankaidō tsunami. A great earthquake off southern Japan sent a tsunami along the coast just after the war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fedc6991-31d5-4155-8762-7f1cd81ed3c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQWUGuWwIqw
- **2025-07-28** — The 1957 Golden Angel earthquake. An earthquake toppled Mexico City's landmark Angel of Independence statue in 1957. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c770af47-c3de-482f-8a65-22dc4fdd76a4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKlgSiMSObs
- **2025-08-14** — The Armero tragedy (Nevado del Ruiz). A small eruption of Nevado del Ruiz melted its glacier, sending a lahar that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing 23,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c990c0a9-4e6a-4579-85b2-cc430826b145) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTH_v-u1boM
- **2025-08-15** — The 1946 Aleutian tsunami at Scotch Cap. The tsunami that destroyed Hawaii in 1946 first swept away the Scotch Cap lighthouse in Alaska. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/d302f0dc-0e64-469d-8174-6ec185e4a610) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXnWp1xZPcQ
- **2025-09-07** — Hurricane Iniki. devastated the Hawaiian island of Kauai, the strongest to hit Hawaii in recorded history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4e5d52b0-4a5a-4615-a9f1-397677cfad3b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ2fzg4MDs0
- **2025-09-16** — Hurricane Floyd. caused catastrophic flooding across the U.S. East Coast and one of its largest evacuations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/fbd05418-7f88-48e0-a648-fda377e19fb7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6342VQXMmxA
- **2025-09-21** — The 1994 Rabaul eruption. Twin eruptions buried much of the town of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea in 1994. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a1ec5664-bfe5-4456-89f3-50cad7ab9006) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCJaXUJH68
- **2025-09-29** — The İzmit tsunami. The 1999 İzmit earthquake in Turkey generated a local tsunami in the Sea of Marmara. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3d7c7469-89f5-4ea0-8e22-a669c0095743) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QePFFI_zC0o
- **2025-10-16** — Himalayan avalanches. Avalanches regularly sweep the high Himalayan valleys, burying villages, roads and mountaineers under snow and ice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cd4c9e85-03a6-4d97-925b-96e1e18a84f8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz7dbFrgtSw
- **2025-10-18** — The Wichita Falls tornado. 'Terrible Tuesday' — a huge tornado tore through Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1979. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ba688228-3b85-4ae0-a58d-2ead7eaa324c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZvVqZt8S-0
- **2025-10-20** — Hurricane David. devastated the Dominican Republic and Dominica before striking the U.S. in 1979. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b5cb9e5c-68a8-42e2-9b28-607bde8d3dff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZjp8s5o6Ec
- **2025-11-18** — The North Korean famine. Floods, drought and policy caused a famine that killed hundreds of thousands in North Korea in the 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/dff8aa09-0d9e-45f8-b3bd-674c7db3a6ae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yslh-FUH1Jg
- **2025-11-19** — The Woodward tornado. One of the deadliest tornadoes in Oklahoma history destroyed much of Woodward in 1947. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a3642785-fece-49a4-9236-98b96cd4b522) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xgqqlVuS0k
- **2025-11-22** — The Guin tornado. One of the Super Outbreak's most violent tornadoes obliterated the town of Guin, Alabama, in 1974. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/15216def-48f1-4ae9-864e-78441ef481e7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-T6NC7q0UI
- **2025-12-27** — The 1930 Merapi eruption. An eruption of Java's Merapi volcano in 1930 sent pyroclastic flows that killed some 1,300. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2572ae8b-4dcd-4a80-a4fb-7f87ef94bb6d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-kLU0Ujcls
### 2026
- **2026-01-10** — The 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami. A submarine landslide sent a tsunami into Papua New Guinea's coast, killing over 2,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b2da150b-b83a-43df-9b85-8a7cabf21aac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6tBGZs7avY
- **2026-01-14** — The 1960 Valdivia earthquake. The most powerful earthquake ever recorded, magnitude 9.5, struck southern Chile and sent tsunamis across the Pacific. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a4469464-06f9-4739-9282-bf1494e6bd07) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPc-6AF4LU
- **2026-01-28** — The Agrigento landslide. A slow ground collapse in Agrigento, Sicily, wrecked a whole modern neighbourhood built on unstable clay in 1966. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/5372db47-2b6d-496b-8265-68fc6084afb4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SSc9sdDr_c
- **2026-01-29** — The 2000 Mozambique floods. Cyclone-driven floods submerged much of Mozambique; a woman famously gave birth in a tree awaiting rescue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b433fc8d-46d3-4f79-8038-3481b8e57c71) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYXlr4bEofY
- **2026-02-10** — The 1987 Black Dragon Fire. One of the largest wildfires of the 20th century burned across China and the Soviet Union in 1987. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/4ac95aaf-0c39-4827-8c92-c0c02a2958ae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZg9YCsnII4
- **2026-02-11** — The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake. A quake levelled Ashgabat in Soviet Turkmenistan, killing an estimated 110,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/c03588b2-7bd2-4182-ae25-f002a311059b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI0hFXEfzuA
- **2026-02-19** — The 1962 Val Parghera avalanche. Avalanches repeatedly threaten the road and rail links through the Swiss and Austrian Alps. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2a62579b-d93a-4586-b2b5-3c1285bd5538) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV3LnSM37mo
- **2026-03-01** — The 1956 cold wave in Europe. A brutal February cold wave froze rivers and killed thousands across Europe in 1956. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/650b5b36-e9ba-4acf-ac77-1ac08551978d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYlpLxrQbxk
- **2026-03-05** — The Great Lakes Storm of 1913. A blizzard and hurricane-force winds sank a dozen ships on the Great Lakes in 1913, killing over 250 sailors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/096e6f4b-3cbf-455d-9e3d-f567f51a1085) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySuJ3s3ZZ9E
- **2026-03-06** — The 1938 Yellow River flood. Chinese forces deliberately breached the Yellow River dikes to slow the Japanese advance, killing up to 800,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/03adc525-58dc-4033-9270-5f27ecb3bd5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTPgmML2AQA
- **2026-05-01** — The 1999 Vargas tragedy. Torrential rain triggered flash floods and debris flows down the mountains onto Venezuela's coast, killing an estimated 10,000-30,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/43ad7e24-3f8c-471c-9c91-c2d6b2aadf74) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTL43P1fzAo
- **2026-05-12** — The 1957 Valencia flood. The Turia river flooded Valencia, Spain, in 1957, leading the city to divert the river around itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/02fa8c2f-0097-4f92-9943-bcaee526ea45) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--7IvmTnq1g
- **2026-05-30** — The 1935 Quetta earthquake. An earthquake destroyed Quetta in British India (now Pakistan), killing tens of thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/2562acb7-1415-47bc-a834-ebb413bb33a4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkT-xcMhhN8
- **2026-06-08** — The 1953 Flint–Beecher tornado. The last single U.S. tornado to kill over 100 people struck Flint, Michigan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/3d5a0d47-ab2a-4d09-bfbe-3b57d5649531) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW0ILnb1Ix0
- **2026-06-08** — The 1976 Moro Gulf earthquake. An earthquake and tsunami struck the Moro Gulf in the southern Philippines in 1976, killing thousands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/f57f56ee-d588-409d-9dce-1ec25c685c1b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3sbQfXWhPE
- **2026-07-02** — Black Sunday, 1935. On 'Black Sunday' a colossal wall of dust rolled across the American Plains, the worst black blizzard of the Dust Bowl. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/8421f446-69c9-450e-89a9-49a8c5cfe29a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWB5_NSEdx4
- **2026-07-07** — The 1970 Huascarán avalanche. A quake shook loose a massive rock-and-ice avalanche from Peru's Mount Huascarán that buried the town of Yungay, killing over 20,000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/a04ffbb2-cee7-417c-ab6b-5a1524b5f282) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyVlBZL3D-c
- **2026-07-07** — The Great Kantō firestorm. The 1923 quake's true horror was fire — firestorms and a fire tornado in Tokyo killed tens of thousands in minutes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/b9edbf2a-28bf-4a30-929b-ab93afc8d7b6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S81cQTNFMFE
- **2026-07-11** — The 1932 Cuba hurricane. The deadliest hurricane in Cuban history drove a huge surge into Santa Cruz del Sur in 1932. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/cf0659ef-2f4d-4e2b-9fe0-a1a7ef7d2bce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMekuAdAN_Q
- **2026-07-12** — The 1993 Hokkaido earthquake. The Hokkaido earthquake and its tsunami devastated the island of Okushiri in Japan in 1993. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/ba01d946-c6d1-47b3-a344-4ebdf7b851b6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4qQ1w2dI8s
- **2026-07-13** — Hail as a weapon of ruin. Giant hail has smashed crops and killed people for centuries; deadly hailstorms still strike China and India. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/7935ed0d-d46f-4915-afc3-11745c94a79c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYS1FJhdt5Y
- **2026-07-14** — The 1998 Bangladesh floods. Monsoon floods submerged two-thirds of Bangladesh for months, displacing 30 million people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/natural-disasters/scene/1c435e9f-e4cb-435e-b44b-c67fed1c45c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bySP85_Vfg

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