https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_25
Holy Cow, Mother Nature on a rampage!!!
1343 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
1833 – A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2, rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
1839 – A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.
1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 impacts 22 American states, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and causing US$66.7 million in damages (1950 dollars).
1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
1996 – An ice storm strikes the central U.S., killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
We will often have one, maybe 2 events on this day in history that feature a storm or earthquake but today, there were 11!
Probably some of it has to do with whoever makes this list and what they pick but the most I remember seeing listed since doing this in August is 3. Even if it was as many as 5 previously, this is still more than double!
This number of fatalities on this one caught my eye:
1839 – A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.
At that time, there were only 1 billion humans on the planet. That many people dying from 1 storm represented .03% of the entire worlds population!!
300,000 divided by 1,000,000,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates
Was there ever anything like this in history?
Looks like there have been several worse natural disasters in history!
Note, that in the top 10 list below, all the extreme weather(flooding/cyclones) occurred well before human caused climate change would have been a factor. If there would be an extreme cyclone or flood with just a fraction of the fatalities today, you know that human caused climate change would get blamed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll
| Rank | Death toll (estimate) | Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1,000,000–4,000,000[2][nb 1] | 1931 China floods | China | July 1931 |
| 2. | 900,000–2,000,000[3] | 1887 Yellow River flood | China | September 1887 |
| 3. | 830,000[4] | 1556 Shaanxi earthquake | China | January 23, 1556 |
| 4. | ≥500,000[2] | 1970 Bhola cyclone | East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) | November 13, 1970 |
| 5. | 300,000 | 1839 India cyclone[5] | India | November 26, 1839 |
| 1737 Calcutta cyclone[6] | India | October 7, 1737 | ||
| 7. | 273,400[7] | 1920 Haiyuan earthquake | China | December 16, 1920 |
| 8. | 250,000–300,000[8] | 526 Antioch earthquake | Byzantine Empire (now Turkey) | May 526 |
| 9. | 242,769–655,000 | 1976 Tangshan earthquake | China | July 28, 1976 |
| 10. | 227,898 | 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami | Indian Ocean | December 26, 2004 |
Mike , after reading your posts about the disasters, anything I might select would be embarrassing.
I'll try not to hog the show so much for November 26th (-:
I got carried away with all that extreme stuff from the past.
Makes one appreciate just how great the present is that much more!