Statistics for Disasters in History

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Year	Deaths	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1912	1,500	This ship hits an iceberg and sinks	RMS Titanic	92%
1986	31 (direct)	This Soviet nuclear power plant explodes	Chernobyl	89%
2005	1,833	This hurricane strikes New Orleans	Katrina	85%
2004	230,000	Communities on the Indian Ocean are devastated by this type of disaster	Tsunami	81%
79	16,000	Pompeii and Herculaneum are buried after the eruption of this volcano	Vesuvius	80%
1666	6 (official)	Much of this city burns due to a bakery fire on Pudding Lane	London	79%
2009	173	This country is struck by bush fires on "Black Saturday"	Australia	78%
2010	> 100,000	This impoverished country is struck by a 7.0 earthquake	Haiti	78%
1937	36	This zeppelin bursts into flames	Hindenburg	73%
2011	185	This New Zealand city is severely damaged by an earthquake	Christchurch	62%
1931	> 1 million	The flooding of this river, the longest in Asia, is generally considered to be the deadliest natural disaster of all time	Yangtze	61%
1883	36,000	This Indonesia volcano spectacularly erupts	Krakatoa	60%
65 Million B.C.	0	An asteroid strikes this Mexican peninsula, eventually causing the extinction of the dinosaurs	Yucatan	60%
1980	57	This volcano erupts in Washington state	St. Helens	58%
2013	6,352	This country is devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm in history at landfall	Philippines	56%
1906	3,000	This city is burned to the ground following a major earthquake	San Francisco	55%
1871	300	This city is destroyed by fire after a cow kicks over a lantern	Chicago	45%
2006	346	People are crushed to death while "stoning the devil" in this city	Mecca	36%
1992	26	This hurricane strikes Miami	Andrew	31%
1917	2,000	This city is rocked when a cargo ship full of wartime explosives blows up (Until the atomic bomb, it was the largest man-made explosion ever)	Halifax	20%