Disasters in Europe

Answer these questions about natural and man-made disasters that struck Europe in the past 4000 years.

Wars, terrorist attacks and pandemics are excluded from this list

Various sources including: Nature Science Direct Volcano Café Science Daily history.com Naval Technology The History Press Encyclopedia Britannica Reuters France 3 Wikipedia NDR Municipality of Galtür BBC National Geographic

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Year	Deaths	Hint	Answer
17th or 16th century BC	unknown	Name of the eruption on the Greek island of Santorini that heavily affects the then dominant civiiization	Minoan eruption
79	2,000 - 16,000	This volcano in Southern Italy erupts and destroys the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum	Vesuvius
1775	12,000-35,000	This city - then the wealthiest in Europe - is devastated by an earthquake and a tsunami	Lisbon
1783/84	unknown	Tens of thousands may have starved to death as consequence of the eruption of this volcano in Iceland	Laki
1908	60,000 - 200,000	An earthquake in this strait between mainland Italy and Sicily is the deadliest disaster in Europe in the 20th century.	Messina
1917	700	These train components fail in Europe's worst rail disaster in St-Michel-de-Maurienne (Eastern France)	Brakes
1944	4,100	The SS Oria transporting Italian POWs sinks off Patroklos Island in this country	Greece
1953	2,500	A spring tide and a storm over this sea cause the deadliest flood in Europe in the 20th century	North Sea
1974	346	A Turkish Airlines flight crashes after takeoff from this Paris airport	Orly
1986	31 (official)	This nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union explodes	Chernobyl
1988	70	Three military jets collide and crash in the spectator area during an airshow on this US Air Force base in Germany	Ramstein
1994	852	This ferry sinks on its way from Estonia to Sweden	MS Estonia
1998	101	This German high speed train derails near Eschede in the North of the country	ICE
1999	31	Tyrolean village Galtür is hit by this natural phenomenon on Feb 23	Avalanche
2003	70,000 +	This meteorological situation in the first half of August contributes to an excess mortality in several countries	Heat wave
2015	675 - 800	This category of people is on board of a vessel sinking on its way from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa	Migrants/Refugees

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