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In what year and on what island in Indonesia did a volcano erupt so violently that nine giant tsunamis 60m high drown 36 000 people that lived on other islands in the area |
Year: 1883 Island: Krakatoa |
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What happened in the year 79AD in Italy? |
Mt. Vesivius's biggest explosion was nearly 2000 years ago. Huge amounts of hot ash and poisonous gasses instantly turned Pompeii into a ghost city. |
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In 1986 what happened in Cameroon? |
A cloud of carbon dioxide flowed down the side of a volcano and killed 1700 people as they slept and also killed 6000 cattle |
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What year and what country did a huge cloud of ask burst out of the sky and pollute skies across Europe and closed down airports for many days and cost airlines R10 Billion rand |
In Iceland in 2010 |
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In what year did a huge quake blow the top off of Mt. St Helens and shoot rock and ash into the air for 160km of forest and causing darkness and black rain |
In the year 1980 |
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What is the name of the crater that is filled with water that once erupted 50 times greater than Mt. St Helens and caused a change of sunsets around the world for 6 months. |
Lake Taupo |
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What happened in Pakistan in 2005? |
In pakistan in 2005 86000 people were killed and whole villages and 4 million people were left homeless. Landslides cut off the region for many days |
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What happened in Sumatra, Indonesia in 2004? |
250 000 people were killed and 1.7 million people were left homeless. The quake also caused a tsunami that caused destruction in 14 countries in Asia. |
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What happened in Alaska in 1964? |
The quake started landslides, Avalanches and a tsunami 70 meters high. 131 people were killed because not many people lived in the area and homes were mostly made of wood. |
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What happened in Japan in 2011? |
A tsunami drowned 24 000 million people and 4.4 million households were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water. Millions had to move from areas where nuclear power stations leaked deadly radiation |
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What happened in Haiti in 2010? |
220 000 people were killed and 3 million in need of emergency aid. |
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Where and in what year were 255000 people, and it was impossible to get numbers from rural areas where nothing remained? |
China, 1976 |
