Statistics for California Disasters

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Date	Description	Disaster	% Correct
March 12, 1928	Dam break sends 140-foot wave down a canyon, killing around 450 people	Saint Francis Dam Collapse	100%
April 18, 1906	Earthquake and resultant fires destroy much of a city	San Francisco Earthquake	80%
2011-2016	12 months are recorded as the driest on record in the state	2010's California Drought	20%
1914-1921	Until 1980, this was the most recent volcanic eruption in the contiguous United States	Mt Lassen	20%
January 17, 1994	57 people die in the Los Angeles Area after this magnitude 6.4 earthquake	Northridge Earthquake	20%
August 2020	At 746,755 acres, this fire is the largest in recorded California history	August Fire	0%
January 9, 1857	San Andreas Fault ruptures, causing a magnitude 7.9 earthquake - the largest ever recorded in California	Fort Tejon Earthquake	0%
March 27, 1964	Alaskan earthquake triggers 21-foot tsunami, killing 12 people and severely damaging the town of Crescent City	Good Friday Tsunami	0%
1861	The entire Central Valley is flooded up to 30 feet in snowmelt and rainwater	Great Flood of 1861	0%
January 9, 2018	Debris flows triggered by intense rain on slopes denuded by wildfires kill 21 people in Santa Barbar County	Montecito Debris Flows	0%