Disasters
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Historic 1951 Kansas Flood
History making flood devastates Kansas on July 13, 1951. It was on the unluckiest of days, Friday the 13th, that some call Black Friday, when the flood swept down the Kansas River valley and into the Missouri River basin. 500,000 people were left homeless and 24 people died. The Midwestern United States had not seen such destruction from flooding as great as this, since record taking had begun. Above-average rainfall beginning in June and lasting through July 13th brought well over 25 inches to towns in eastern Kansas. Most affected major towns were Manhattan, Topeka and Lawrence. Also, 10,000 farms were destroyed as well. The crest of the flood exceeded…
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Pacific Ring of Fire a Volatile Place
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Top Ten Deadliest Tornadoes in Oklahoma History
Rank City Date Scale Fatalities Injuries 1 Woodward 4/9/1947 F5 116 782 2 Snyder 5/10/1905 F5 97* 58* 3 Peggs 5/2/1920 F4 71 100 4 Antlers 4/12/1945 F5 69 353 5 Pryor 4/27/1942 F4 52 350 6 (Bridge Creek-Newcastle-Moore-Oklahoma City) 5/3/1999 F5 36 583 7 Oklahoma City 6/12/1942 F4 35 100 8 Cleveland County 04/25/1893 F4 33 ~100 9 (Newcastle-South Oklahoma City-Moore) 5/20/2013 EF5 24 – 10 Bethany 11/19/1930 F4 23 150 Source: National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office, Norman, OK
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Tornado History
It has been confirmed that the Friday, May 31, 2013 tornado, that brought destruction and death to El Reno, OK, was the widest ever in recorded history. Per the National Weather Service and a leading researcher, Howard Bluestein, no other tornado has ever reached such a mammoth breadth. The El Reno tornado stretched a maximum width of 2.6 miles. Read More
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Pacific Ring of Fire a Volatile Place
These are the 15 countries included in the Ring of Fire: Indonesia, New Zealand, Papa New Guinea, Philippines, Japan, United States, Chile, Canada, Guatemala, Russia, Peru, Solomon Islands, Mexico and Antarctica. The Aleutian island chain, Andes mountains of South America and the Micronesia tropics make up the geographical region known as the “Ring of Fire.” Plates underlying these areas on the Earth are made up of subduction zones. These are zones where oceanic tectonic plate go under a continental plate or another oceanic plate. This results in the increased volcanic and earthquake activity we have seen throughout history in this aptly named “Pacific Ring of Fire”. The Solomon Islands are a part of this geographically volitile…
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Historic 1951 Kansas Flood
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Super Earthquakes in History
1. Chile 1960 05 22 9.5 -38.29 -73.05 Kanamori, 1977 2. Prince William Sound, Alaska 1964 03 28 9.2 61.02 -147.65 Kanamori, 1977 3. Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra 2004 12 26 9.1 3.30 95.78 Park et al., 2005 4. Near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan 2011 03 11 9.0 38.322 142.369 PDE 5. Kamchatka 1952 11 04 9.0 52.76 160.06 Kanamori, 1977 6. Offshore Maule, Chile 2010 02 27 8.8 -35.846 -72.719 PDE 7. Off the Coast of Ecuador 1906 01 31 8.8 1.0 -81.5 Kanamori, 1977 8. Rat Islands, Alaska 1965 02 04 8.7 51.21 178.50 Kanamori, 1977 9. Northern Sumatra, Indonesia 2005 03 28…
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Hindenburg Disaster
On May 6, 1937, the golden age of airship travel comes to an end. During a landing in severe thunderstorms at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, the Hindenburg bursts into flames and crashes. The tragedy brought an end to the popularity of Zeppelin airship travel and the common use of hydrogen as fuel. Hydrogen is now making a comeback as a component for cell phone towers, forklifts and even aircraft tugs. Source Hindenburg Facts At 803.8 feet in length and 135.1 feet in diameter, the German passenger airship Hindenburg (LZ-129) was the largest aircraft ever to fly. The commercial flights of Hindenburg, along with Graf Zeppelin, pioneered…
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The Top Ten US Killer Tornadoes
The Top Ten US Killer Tornadoes The United States gets about 1000 recorded tornadoes every year. Today, only a few are killers, but that has not always been so. About 200 US tornadoes have killed 18 or more people. Of those, about 150 occurred in the 70 year period between 1879 and 1949. There have been about 45 tornadoes since 1950 that have killed 18 or more people. In the 1950s, there were 18 tornadoes that killed 18 or more people. In the 1960s, there were 12 tornadoes that killed 18 or more people. In the 1970s,there were 11 tornadoes that killed 18 or more people. And in the 1980s,…
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Kids’ History Corner by 4th grader Lindsey
Hey kids, guess what i learned at school today! I learned about the dust bowl.It included parts of Colorado,Kansas,Oklahoma,New Mexico and Texas.
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Historic Earthquakes in Japan
Developing News: Tokyo, Monday 19:18 (PST, Monday 11:18 – GMT, Monday 10:19) It’s gone from bad to worse for Japan. The official death toll has now reached near 1,700, and there is news of 2,000 more dead bodies being found near the Miyagi Prefecture. The radiation threat is also becoming a scare among the people after the third explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, even though the authorities say that there has been no major radiation leak as of yet. The rescue operations continue, and by now more than 15,000 people have been rescued.
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Earthquakes from Another Time
The 8.9 earthquake that rocked Japan is comparable to the one that shook Japan in 1933 and was the same magnitude that shook Colombia and Equador in 1906. North America borders along the Pacific Rim where plates converge causing the earth to move. On Good Friday March 27, 1964 the largest earthquake struck America at Prince William Sound near Anchorage, Alaska measuring 8.5 on the Richter scale. A survivor of that terrifying experience now lives in Oklahoma City. Some 153 years earlier, the largest inland quake to strike was at New Madrid, Missouri was between December 16, 1811 and April, 1812 that Scientist believe would register at 8.0 had the…
