Thursday, April 8, 2010

Typhoon-1737,India

First it was thought to be an earthquake, but more recent scientific studies have re-classified it as a typhoon - this tragedy killed some 300,000 in Calcutta.This was reported to be one of the disastrous natural calamity happened on South Asia in the decade

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Earthquake-Japan, 1730

The second largest island of Japan, Hokkaido, was hit by a massive earthquake in 1730 which killed 137,000 people. The Magnitude for that earthquake is still unknown. This was one of the deadly natural disaster occurred in the face of Earth