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Famous Disasters on the Map
Each dot corresponds with a famous disaster, either a natural or manmade one. Use the dates to help you, too.
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| First submitted | October 5, 2018 |
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| Average score | 38.1% |
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The same year, London was in the midst of an episode of plague which killed 100,000 people, fully one quarter of London's population.
Although that actually survived the fire, and existed until the 1800s.
The Taiping Rebellion killed more people than World War One!
1931 - floods kill 4,000,000
1920 - landslide kills 100,000
1976 - earthquake kills up to 655,000
Three separate famines between 1876 and 1961 kill at least 10,000,000 people each.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
Johnstown Flood might be considered notable.
Or does that not fit with your definition of “disasters”, as I notice there are no other wars or military actions etc.?
Combine that with the foggy weather, lack of protocol, and yeah...
So while the terrorist attack failed at its original location, it still happened in a roundabout way :(
Great Lisbon?
1963 - Vajon Dam mega tsunami in Italy - Landslide triggered 250 meter high wave that overtopped the dam and killed 2,000
1871 Peshtigo wildfire in Wisconsin, USA - Deadliest wildfire in recorded history killing up to 2,500 people. Overshadowed by the great Chicago fire that occurred the same day.
Some were a bit variable to answer ie sometimes you just need the name of the city or country without needing to know what the disaster was. Or, if you do know what the disaster was, then trying to get the right place name or label.
I did wonder if a variation could be to yellow box it, and then ask for the type of disaster for each one.
But a good disaster could be the Coconut Grove Fire
Imagine a can of soda. It's got CO2 in it, hence the bubbles. When shaken, it spills out, releasing that, hence the fizz.
Now scale that up by a factor of millions. It's not clear what triggered it, but the CO2 balance in the lake was disturbed. A gigantic cloud of CO2 was released & descended upon villages, killing 1,746 people (& herds of livestock).
Tragic, but very interesting. Man 1986 was not a good year for this type of stuff!
Didn't remember the name of Tunguska Event, but knew what it referred to.
Didn't get the Challenger, because I always thought of it as happening during flight, therefore not a place on earth, but of course it was still close to or above Florida.
Tried "drought" for Dust Bowl, I think that should be accepted...
Maybe this quiz could be split into two categories:
Man-made disasters and natural disasters?
(For the latter one, I'd add earth quake in Chile 1906.
For the first one, could add Deepwater Horizon, Hindenburg, Concorde, maybe Kursk submarine.)
Africa having none is pretty weird as well, the Ethiopian famine or Rwandan genocide come to mind.
The quiz concept is really fun but i would like to see it be more world disasters rather than just US focused.
Also, strange that nothing bad happened south of the equator...or will that be a sequel?