Famous Disasters on the Map - Statistics

General Stats

Answers on the Map

Answers color-coded by a green-red scale on the quiz's map according to % correct below.

Answer Stats

Year	Death Toll	Disaster	% Correct
1986	31+	Chernobyl disaster	89%
79	16,000	Vesuvius eruption	86%
1912	~1,500	Titanic sinking	81%
2011	15,896	Tōhoku earthquake	77%
2005	1,836+	Hurricane Katrina	73%
1883	36,000+	Krakatoa eruption	70%
2010	160,000	Haiti earthquake	68%
1906	3,000+	San Francisco earthquake	60%
1980	57	Mount St. Helens eruption	57%
2020	218+	Beirut explosion	54%
2004	227,898	Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami	53%
1917	1,782	Halifax explosion	46%
1934-9	~7,000	Dust Bowl	39%
1984	3,787+	Bhopal disaster	31%
2015	2,000+	Mina stampede (Mecca)	31%
1900	~8,000	Galveston hurricane	29%
1989	0 (humans)	Exxon Valdez oil spill	28%
1915	1,198	Lusitania sinking	23%
1908	3?	Tunguska Event	22%
1986	7	Challenger disaster	20%
1938	~500,000	Yellow River flood	17%