Statistics for Types of Disasters

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Hint	Disaster	% Correct
What destroyed Pompeii in 79AD	Volcano	98%
Really big wave, often caused by the above	Tsunami	96%
Katrina, Camille, Andrew, e.g.	Hurricane	93%
Water, water everywhere	Flood	91%
It's not love, but you'll be all shook up	Earthquake	90%
One of these took Dorothy to Oz	Tornado	90%
One of these probably killed the dinosaurs	Asteroid	87%
Uncontrollable spread of disease	Epidemic/Pandemic	85%
Chernobyl or Fukushima, e.g.	Nuclear Accident	85%
Prolonged period of little rain	Drought	79%
Ireland suffered one in 1845-1849	Famine / Crop Failure	79%
Like the above, but with snow	Avalanche	76%
Loose or wet soil can cause this	Mudslide/Landslide	74%
If you don't have AC, this may be unpleasant	Heat Wave	70%
The eventual result of greenhouse gas buildup	Global Warming	67%
Biblical crop-eaters	Locusts	67%
A disaster of Titanic proportions	Shipwreck	67%
The ultimate failure of diplomacy	War	64%
Exxon Valdez, e.g.	Oil Spill	60%
Like the above, but in the northwest Pacific	Typhoon	58%
Canadian geese were to blame for at least one of these incidents	Plane Crash	51%
Australia's "Black Saturday" in 2009 was a deadly example of this	Wildfire	50%
Time-bomb lurking under Yellowstone	Supervolcano	36%