Disasters

Hey again,
forgot an update that needed to be done! So here it is. We had to list some natural disasters, and then choose one that we wanted to research and find resources that we could use for reference.
So I found some really early natural disasters, and I'm just going to mention some and then post the link so if you want anymore then you can look them up.
- Earthquake in Egypt and Syria, in 1201 where approx. 1.1 million people were killed.
- The Black Death (disease) in Europe from 1347 to 1350, where about 25 million were killed.
- Earthquake in Chine, Shaanzi, in 1556, where about 830.000 people were killed.
- Typhoon in India 1737 killed about 300.000 people.
- Famine in India (again) in 1796, killed about 10 million people.
- Volcanic eruption in Iceland, in 1783 killed 25.000+ people in Iceland and caused 25% of the population to starve because of poisoning.
- In US, 1871, there was a forest fire in Wisconsin that destroyed 9 towns and killed 1.500 people.
- Drought in China, 1876 - 1879 killed 9 million people died, due to no water so many things died.
- In Italy, 1908, an earthquake started a tidal wave, that destroyed cities and land, and killed about 123.000 people.
- There was an earthquake resulted in serious landslides in Peru, in 1970, that killed about 66.000 people.
- In West Africa, 1996, meningites broke out and killed about 25.000 people.

Source: http://across.co.nz/WorldsWorstDisasters.html

So these are some of them, and I have decided to do some research on The Forest Fire in Wisconsin, 1871. There is another name for this fire, which is The Great Peshtigo Fire.

5 links that I have for this are:
- http://www.peshtigofire.info/
- http://www.boisestate.edu/history/ncasner/hy210/peshtigo.htm
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wioconto/Fire.htm
- http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=10463&term_type_id=3&term_type_text=things&letter=F
-http://www.essortment.com/all/peshtigofire_rixl.htm

p.s. It's a little late, but my internet wasn't working so I had to wait for it to work again.
Byeee!