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• It is a record that in 2004 there were 61,000 people on the death toll but the most interesting fact was that out of these 50,000 people died because of the Pakistan earthquake measuring 7.6 Richter scale in October.

• In Indonesia the deadliest volcano ever erupted in 1815. Named as Tambora it killed more than 92,000 citizens.

• It has been recorded that NO ONE has ever "escaped a Volcano".

• A volcano's effect can last more that a hundred years. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius had affected its people for more than 121 years.

• A tornado at an average lasts only for only 3-10 minutes.

• There are exactly 1,511 'active' volcanoes around the world.

• If an earthquake happened in Los Angeles, a resulting tsunami could hit Tokyo quicker than you could fly between the cities by jet.

• Britain has an average of 33 tornadoes every year.

• Only 10% of the world population lives in "danger from volcanoes" areas.

• Floods are generally the worst of nature's fury but the most deadliest flood was of the Yellow River in china in which the death toll reached to 1,00,000- 3,50,000.

• The worst out epidemic took place from 1918-1919. Named the "Great Influenza" it killed more than 50 - 100 million people. This might be not a very great number but at that time the population was only 1.8 billion in the world. If this would have happened today an estimated 350 MILLION people could have died.

• The deadliest land slides took place in Kahait, Tajikistan in 1949 killed 12,000 people.