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Lake Toba is in the middle of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Known locally as a caldera, or the crater formed by a volcanic eruption, Lake Toba is big, measuring eighteen by sixty miles across and as ...

Lake Okeechobee hurricane

Events; Disasters

Also called hurricane San Felipe Segundo, named after the saint's day on which the storm did so much damage to Puerto Rico, the Okeechobee Hurricane was the first recorded hurricane to reach category ...

Rome fire

Events; Disasters

On July 19, 64, the same date four and a half centuries earlier when the Gauls set fire to Rome, a fire broke out near the Circus Maximus and quickly spread all over the city of Rome. At the time, ...

Mona Passage earthquake

Events; Disasters

On the morning of October 11, 1918, Puerto Rico was devastated by one of the most severe earthquakes it had ever experienced in modern times. The initial earthquake measured a magnitude of 7.5 and ...

Thalidomide drug tragedy

Events; Disasters

Thalidomide was launched in Germany on October 1, 1957 by Celgene Corporation to help pregnant women with pregnancy related symptoms. It was promoted as a drug that was nontoxic, with no side ...

Hurricane Agnes

Events; Disasters

Hurricane Agnes was considered an early hurricane because most hurricanes hit the United States after the month of July. The storm made landfall in Florida on June 19, 1972, where its impact was ...

Persian Gulf oil inferno

Events; Disasters

In August 1990, Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait in order to turn it into a province of Iraq and to gain control of its oilfields. The United Nations immediately condemned this action and, when diplomatic ...