Each state is familiar with some sort of unfortunate disaster, but only one catastrophic event has been devastating enough to earn the title of the worst natural disaster to ever occur there.

It killed some 200,000 people, making it the deadliest ... the tallest tsunami ever documented. When the wave ran ashore, it snapped trees 1,700 feet upslope. Five deaths were recorded, but ...

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the deadliest in history ... Valdivia earthquake in Chile is the strongest earthquake ever recorded, with a magnitude of 9.5. It triggered a powerful ...

The biggest and most powerful earthquake to ever be recorded ... deadliest natural disasters in history. The 9.1 magnitude quake not only caused devastation in Sumatra, it also caused a huge ...

The biggest tsunami ever recorded was in Lituya Bay, Alaska, reaching an astonishing 1,724 feet in the air. On July 9, 1958, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake caused 90 million tons of rock and ice to ...

Natural Resources Canada reported in 2010 that, on average, at least one tsunami has affected Canada every 15 to 20 years ...

she had no idea that she would be caught up in one of the deadliest natural disasters the world has ever known. On the beaches of Phuket when the Tsunami hit, Amber owes her life to a very ...