What are the natural disasters that Stone City has suffered in its history?

One day in August 79 AD, Pompeii, the most prosperous city of the ancient Roman Empire, disappeared 18 hours later due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and 18 hours after the eruption, the volcanic debris buried the entire Pompeii, the deepest point was 19 meters, and Pompeii, which was once known as a beautiful paradise, was completely wiped off the face of the earth.

In 1348, the Black Death began to spread across Europe, a plague that had been rampant for three centuries and claimed the lives of more than 25 million people. Lost a quarter of Europe's population at that time.

In the autumn of 1845, an unknown disease afflicted Irish potatoes. The main farmer of the Irish of the potato. The potato disaster caused more than 1 million Irish people to die of famine.

In 1918, towards the end of World War I, an outbreak of influenza claimed the lives of nearly 50 million people, known as the Spanish flu, or 1918 flu. On October 5 of this year, scientists discovered that the Spanish flu is actually a mutation of avian flu.

In September 1923, the Great Kanto Dynasty of Japan**, at least 140,000 people died.

In May 1927, Nanchang, China, the death toll exceeded 200,000

In 1931, 33,600 people survived in the flood in Wuhan, when people and animals drifted and houses collapsed, and the city of Wuhan was flooded for two months, affecting more than 780,000 people in 160,000 households, and more than 230,000 people were to be relieved.

On December 4, 1952, London, England continued to be thick for nearly a week, and the whole city was shrouded in darkness, during which more than 4,700 people died of respiratory diseases, and more than 8,000 people died after the Wu dispersed, and the "Wu Disaster" shocked the world.

July 28, 1976, Tangshan Da**.

On December 26, 2004, a strong Richter scale occurred in the waters off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, causing a sea to affect more than a dozen countries along the Indian Ocean coast, killing or missing more than 200,000 people. Nearly 170,000 people are dead or missing in Indonesia.

On August 25, 2005, Category 5 Hurricane Katrina in the Caribbean Sea made landfall in the United States, and on August 29, it hit the coastal area of Mersey Song Bay, causing great damage to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama states, and the entire area of the disaster was almost the same size as the United Kingdom, which is considered one of the most costly natural disasters in the history of the United States, killing more than 1,000 people and causing more than 100 billion US dollars.

Tangshan**, the death toll is by far one of the highest in the world, the death toll is quite staggering, and part of the land is submerged.

Pompeii erupted: A large city and its inhabitants were submerged for nearly a thousand years, and entire cities were wiped off the map off the coast of Japan**, causing a tsunami that not only caused a rising death and missing toll, but also caused a near-devastating blow to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, resulting in a nuclear leak and a 30-kilometer radius of no man's land.

Hurricane Katrina in the United States became one of the most significant natural disasters in the country's history, paralyzing entire cities and strewn corpses in the aftermath of the hurricane. In the end, the army enters to control the situation, like a copy of the apocalypse.

Los Angeles Da**, which was once made into a movie, was quite tragic.

Tsunami, tornado,**, volcanic eruptions, mudslides, sandstorms.

Natural disasters are abnormal phenomena that occur in the natural world on which human beings depend, and the harm caused by natural disasters to human society is often shocking. Among them, there are sudden disasters such as volcanic eruptions, mudslides, tsunamis, typhoons, and floods; There are also land subsidence, land desertification, drought, and coastline changes that can gradually become apparent over a long period of time.

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A major natural event in Chinese history.

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The earthquake of the two Han Dynasty - the two Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) was a period of natural disasters in Chinese history, and some scholars called it the "Two Han Dynasty Universe Period". An important indication of this is that the frequency of ** has increased significantly. Deng Yunte said in "The History of China's Famine Relief":

In the 440 years of the Qin and Han dynasties, disasters occurred as many as 375 times. Eighty-one droughts, seventy-six floods, and sixty-eight floods. According to the Records of the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, there were two occurrences during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, in the fifteenth year of the reign of King Yingzheng of Qin (232 BC) and the seventeenth year (230 BC), both before Qin unified China.

Therefore, the 68 times ** counted by Deng Yunte are all in the Han and Han dynasties. In addition, according to the statistics in the first volume of the "Compilation of China's ** Historical Materials" edited by Wang Hui'an and Wen Liming, a total of 118 times occurred during the Han Dynasty, with an average of less than four years, which shows the frequency of the Han Dynasty. Among these many **, the more serious ones are the following.

On June 1, 70 B.C., there was a 7-level big ** in the area of Changle in Zhucheng, Shandong, and it was recorded in the "Hanshu Five Elements Chronicles" at that time that "Emperor Xuan was forty-nine in the first four years of the county, or landslides and waters." Beihai evil ancestral temple city outline, killing more than 6,000 people." After October 143, there was a 7-level ** in Ganguxi, Gansu Province, ** was tragic, and it was recorded in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Five Elements Chronicles" that "in the first month of the first year of Jiankang, the sixth ** of Liangzhou County, from September to April last year, all hundred and eighty **, the valley was cracked, the city temple was ruined, and the injured characters were injured in the second year of Gaohou 1949, Changzhou City, Yangzhou City, Yancheng City, Jiangyin City, Zhangjiagang City 199112 1995-09-20 (According to the determination of China's **Taiwan Network, Beijing time.

In fact, there are some natural and man-made disasters every year, and from a statistical point of view, it should be a normal distribution, but now people take these mantissa numbers alone are 8, in fact, the mantissa is 1 or other years.