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-Bernard L. Cohen
University of Pittsburgh
> RTw 12/31 0757 Chronology of disasters through 1999
> LONDON, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Here is a chronology of the worst
> disasters, natural and man-made, in 1999:
> Jan 25 - A powerful earthquake rips through Colombia's central
> coffee-growing region killing at least 1,170 people. It measures 6.3 on
> the Richter scale.
> Feb 6 - More than 300 people missing after an Indonesian ferry
> sinks near Tambelan islands 800 km (500 miles) north of Jakarta.
> Feb 23-24 - Avalanches in the Austrian ski resort of Galtuer kill
> 38 people.
> Feb 24 - All 61 people aboard a Chinese Russian-built Tupolev
> Tu-154 airliner are killed when the plane crashes in eastern China after
> a mid-air explosion.
> Mar 22 - At least 150 people drown at sea off Sierra Leone when an
> overloaded motorised canoe capsizes off the town of Tasso.
> Mar 25 - Forty people are killed in a fire which traps at least 30
> vehicles in the tunnel under Mont Blanc, Europe's highest mountain.
> May 3 - More than 70 tornadoes rake Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and
> Tennessee, killing 54.
> May 20 - A tropical cyclone hits southern Pakistan killing at least
> 127 people and leaving about 1,200 missing.
> May 30 - At least 52 people are crushed to death when hundreds of
> fans at a rock concert into an underground railway station to escape a
> storm in the Belarussian capital Minsk.
> Jul 1 - A French cable car taking staff to an international Alpine
> observatory falls 80 metres (260 feet), killing 20.
> Jul 27 - In Switzerland 21 people are killed on a thrill-seeking
> "canyoning" expedition near the resort of Interlaken.
> Aug 2 - Two crowded trains collide head-on at a railway station in
> eastern India, killing 286 people.
> Aug 2-7 - The worst rains in decades slice across the Philippines,
> the Korean peninsula, Vietnam and China, killing almost 1,000 people.
> Aug 17 - An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale strikes
> Turkey's northwestern city of Izmit, some 90 km (55 miles) east of
> Istanbul, killing at least 17,110.
> Aug 31 - An Argentine Boeing 737 from private airline LAPA crashes
> on take-off from an airport near Buenos Aires' city centre, killing at
> least 71.
> Sept 7 - An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale strikes
> the Greek capital Athens killing at least 139 people.
> Sept 16 - Hurricane Floyd strikes the eastern United States,
> killing at least 48 people and causing widespread power outages and
> flooding from Florida to New England.
> Sept 21 - A major earthquake strikes Taiwan, killing 2,321 people.
> The quake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale.
> Sept 30 - In Japan, at least 69 people are exposed to radiation at
> a uranium reprocessing plant in Tokaimura.
> Oct 5 - Two trains collide outside London's Paddington station
> killing 31 people.
> Oct 29 - In India, a "super-cyclone" slams into northeast state of
> Orissa. At least 9,885 are killed.
> Oct 31 - A Cairo-bound EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes 60 miles (96 km)
> off Massachusetts killing all 217 aboard.
> Nov 11 - A six-storey apartment block collapses in Italy in the
> town of Foggia killing at least 62.
> Nov 12 - An earthquake strikes Turkey's province of Bolu killing at
> least 749 people. Tremor measured 7.2 on the Richter scale.
> Nov 25 - At least 280 people die when the car ferry Dashun founders
> and breaks up in stormy waters off the port city of Yantai on the
> Shandong peninsula in the east coast of China.
> Dec 8 - A four-storey apartment building collapses in Morocco's
> ancient city of Fes, killing 47 people.
> Dec 15/16 - In Venezuela huge mudslides and floods after a week of
> rain kill at least 30,000 and make thousands homeless.
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