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10 Epic Natural Disasters From Throughout History

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Peshtigo Fire

Ch’ing-yang event

Calcutta cyclone

Dadu river landslide dam

Coringa cyclones

Krakatoa volcanic eruption of 1883

Shaanxi earthquake

Yellow River floods of China

The great European famine

Plague of Justitian

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@julieortega44614 years ago Simon's delivery of the information he reads is always so smooth. I think I'd be content listening to him reading his grocery list 😁🥰 20
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@nicholascropp56314 years ago Simon you should totally do a Top Ten of your favorite Top Tenz!! 4
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@grapeshot4 years ago I would say the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. 28
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@javankipp4 years ago Dude.. your videos are crazy awesome Simon
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@ShoalBear4 years ago You still need to be wary of staying in a fire area in water. That water will becoming too hot to keep you safe... 6
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@johntakolander86134 years ago About the Justinian plague: Procopius of Cesarea wrote that in travelling through Libya( it`s North Africa) he could travel for days without seeing a living human being! 8
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@benangel68314 years ago As I recall from earthquake engineering class, the critical thing about the Shaanxi Earthquake was that most of the local population at that time lived in caves dug out of the loess soil formations - when the quake hit these, the formerly very solid walls of these "yaodong" caves literally turned to liquid and buried the people inside them, hence the very large death toll. ... 1
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@ajaxthegreatest21914 years ago At and is the same picture for two different cyclones 5
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@jameskidd87334 years ago Awesome video as always, the Krakotoa explosion was heard around the world not once but some say two or three times 1
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@hectorsmommy17174 years ago Fun fact about the Peshtigo fire: William Ogden, former mayor of Chicago and one of its founding fathers, owned a large tract of land and a lumber mill in Peshtigo. He lost millions as Chicago burned but also as Peshtigo burned. He continued to pay his lumber workers as they rebuilt and is considered a hero in Peshtigo to this day, in addition to having streets, etc named after him in Chicago. ... 1
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@randallpetroelje39134 years ago Sir Whistler, an honor to hear your narration. I never knew about Westigo. The disasters that are occurring not might heard world round too (war I mean by that). Excellent show ‘ol boy! Natural disasters will always occur, but the report has opened my eyes. I knew about a few of them. Thanks again for your show. ...
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@penni0064 years ago It's interesting that no hurricanes/typhoons made this list. I live in the Bahamas so the nightmare of Dorian is still fresh.
I look at these and realize it could have been worse but somehow that doesn't make me feel better about the horrors 2 major islands of my country went through. ... 1
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@christinebicanic7513 years ago Well done, Simon. The Peshtigo fire was a horrific fire storm that was overshadowed by Chicago. An "A" for your research. I believe there is a museum in Peshtigo regarding the fire.
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@janssenja44 years ago I would say justinian is mainly know for his codex. One of the most famous legal sources in history 1
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@ernestbywater4114 years ago I'm very surprised the April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora which caused the 1816 event known as 'The Year Without Summer' and major food shortages in the northern hemisphere didn't rate a mention due to the hundreds of thousands of people who died in the famine caused by the crop failures. ... 2
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@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache4 years ago These natural disasters may have been epic, but they were also quite tragic 3
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@murzagildin4 years ago Helps put the Russian Taiga fire, Amazon fire and Australia fire in context 😬😬 3
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@christophermerlot33664 years ago An earthquake levelled Lisbon a few hundred years ago, around 1750. 9
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@trimblephillip4 years ago Watching this vid and low and behold..... patrick steward commercial! Are you having patrick steward open for you now? Cheers and keep the trivia info rolling. Actually answered a few questions before from just your vids!
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@kolochesk14 years ago Listing to this I walk across Green Bay at 10pm so the peshtigo fire is tough to see on here
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@BaddBadger4 years ago ... Is that a still from the film ''Knowing'' ?
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@mississippiensis4 years ago My in laws live in Peshtigo, Wisconsin and there is a museum there about the fire. I had never heard of the Peshtigo fire until I visited the town.
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@jamesp41323 years ago The Justinian plague also coincided with multiple volcanoes erupting and 4 hours of sunlight per day.
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@briandavy-taefu8184 years ago Justinian is also known for the Hagia Sophia just on the positive side. 5
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@halonothing14 years ago You show the exact same picture here for the aftermath of the Calcutta cyclone as you show at for the aftermath of the Coringa cyclone. ... 2
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@buxeessingh25714 years ago Peshtigo? Why wasn't this mentioned in "Caroline in the City"?
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@longjohnsilver96154 years ago I would have thought the Christmas Tsunami in the Indian Ocean would have at least rated an honorable mention.
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@suna59604 years ago Dude, the current Aus bushfires are worse RIGHT NOW! Your first entry should be the Aus bushfire instead 1
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@Lobo00114 years ago Just think people still name their kids justin 4
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@dolphinimpostor52374 years ago There is give, and there is take, this is life
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@aksharnarayanan4 years ago You used the same picture for the Calcutta and the Coringa cyclones. 1
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@AurochsHorn4 years ago If the peshtigo fire was started by rail workers, how is it a natural disaster? 3
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@Sir_Uncle_Ned4 years ago Only 1.2 million acres burned? How quaint. Australia's fires burning as I type this have already broken 10.5 million acres 1
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@treed59532 years ago Too bad you couldn't fit the tri-state tornado in there, it was pretty impressive
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@gregoriit87973 years ago This video seems oddly prophetic looking back on 2020...
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@tinakeller75694 years ago I'm surprised the Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011 aren't on here.
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@patmullarkey76594 years ago Eruption in 535-536 of Krakatoa (again the culprit)? Icelandic volcano? Central America?caused several years without the sun/cold summers. Bad to no harvests, starvation. And many say it set up the perfect storm for Justinian's plague. ...
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@lemonsky53784 years ago You could just do a list on Chinese disasters. China has suffered from some truly horrific, very large scale disasters with deaths on an unimaginable scale. 1
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@jessicacanfield54084 years ago These are horrible and some I have never heard of. But as always you did your homework. Thank you
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@infinitesentient35454 years ago This really defines the term "first world problems" in an impactful way. Thanks Simon!
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@cuttwice39054 years ago What about the Justinian Code? We still live under the influence of its laws. 1
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@Jedonai4 years ago For Americans, the term "Cyclone" is what we call a hurricane. 3
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@mitchellskene81764 years ago Surprised the Year Without A Summer wasn't on the list 2
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@lemonsky53784 years ago The subtitles consistently misspell Justinian as Justitian.
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@LauriesLegacy4 years ago I love these videos, but the odd, hodgepodge way your books are placed behind you makes my O.C.D. twitch. 🤣
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@rchuso4 years ago Not mentioned: the bolide impact that formed the Burckle crater in the Indian Ocean that sent a wall of water probably 500 feet high into Iraq and other surrounding countries - the effect of which is still evident in the chevrons eroded into surrounding land. As it happened about the year 2850, all we have for records are the subsequent myths recorded in the Eridu Genesis, the Epic of Atrahasis, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and eventually the flood of Noah. Death toll? Everyone except [Ziusudra | Atrahasis | Utnapishtim | Noah] and his wife. :-) ...
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@callabeth2584 years ago The current fires here in Australia are devastating our country to the point we could be in the running to make this list. Australia has been burning since November and its only getting worse, they are now estimating that over a billion animals have been killed, and just today another firefighter lost his life trying to save his country. ...
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@jennybean19984 years ago I wonder if June 1st, 1976 is Simon’s Birthday 😂
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@Eric_Hutton.19804 years ago Wasn't this one released last year, or was I having a vision of the future? 1
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@vexile124 years ago Number 7... 1976? But the paper said 1786
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@meowjmeowington90764 years ago My mom always warned me about railroad workers and their carelessness
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@amandajones6613 years ago We humans are super fragile against.... everything else.
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@jongee22304 years ago Simon did you say 1976 instead of 1776. It's OK your still my fav.
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@shreyassrinivasan53584 years ago I was expecting the earthquake, tsunami, and fire of Lisbon to be a part of this video, as its ramifications include the fall of the Portuguese's colonial ambitions
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@ChickenPermissionOG4 years ago how can you skip the Chile earthquake of 1960? 2
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@firewaterforgeofarizona43044 years ago Horrific? Yes. Well done? Very. I have to say that your videos probably have done more to educate people about history than public education ever will.
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@kenshores99004 years ago I hope you don’t stay up nights thinking up these topics. Interesting but quite morbid and quite strange.
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@Jose-ht2lw4 years ago How about the events of the movie 2012? Hello?! Anyone?! 1
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@ski67124 years ago justin...ian?? ohh that must be the emperor of canada!! there is a plague coming?? get paul revere and tell him to ride quickly.
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@Discosaturn4 years ago There are earthquakes and volcanic eruptions far worse than the ones on the list.
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@darkmatter86504 years ago LET'S NOT HOPE FOR ANOTHER, NATURAL OR MAN MADE!
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@williamoldaker53484 years ago Please learn about the Younger Dryas Impact. It is very important.
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@aregularperson75734 years ago I’m from Wisconsin and I have never heard of the fire so THANKS US SCHOOL SYSTEM FALLING US AGAIN 1
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@tylerchaney15334 years ago I know these events were terrible, but imagine what the worlds population would be without them causing such death tolls. Mother nature has a cruel way of "helping" us. 2
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@devonjohnson68394 years ago Don't need from and throughout in the title either one or the other
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@ArnoldLokman4 years ago I think natural disasters existed even before the human race
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@endcensorship8744 years ago You can do a Top Tenz on Krakatoa alone. You should. 1
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@YeeSoest4 years ago The first image you used is from germany...a Country that doesn't really have natural disasters^^
Floods...sure...Minor Earthquakes that often go unnoticed by the public...Heavy rain...Storms...
Nothing too scary or lethal tho. Climate change will give us some bigger wildfires and more of the above but we don't belong in this video^^ ...
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@davidboysel45094 years ago Sorry Simon I don't like to pick apart your videos I enjoy all your channels. You have forgotten the pyroclastic flow which can exceed 300 miles per hour this was a death sentence for any of the people celebrating
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@bigmc884 years ago Why didn't you include any snow fall over an inch in England the country stops and food runs out mean while Sweden gets 4ft and not even school shuts haha
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@ProfVRandall4 years ago So no epic natural disasters on the continent of Africa or South America? WoW 1
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@MrTommySixxx4 years ago Who else think that Simon would be great at ASMR?
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@BranDenhauer4 years ago These numbers are insane. How the hell are there nearly 8 billion of us?
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@Jake122204 years ago More clear examples of climate change...
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@cskarbek14 years ago please let me know if you read these comments, Top Tenz, b/c when i post a suggestion to you, someone by the name of Wm Hutchinson tells me to "shut up!" and that was just for starters. if mr. hutchinson is part of your team, i will simply stop watching your informative videos. i do not appreciate bullies and, if one or more or your team is a bona fide troll/bully, i will delete you from my feed. thank you for your attention to this matter. ... 1
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@heikkijhautanen45763 years ago Wow the china folks must have made some Gods angry!!! :/
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@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt27184 years ago Eh I love disaster movies based in real life so I almost had to pause it to rub one out. 2
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@endcensorship8744 years ago How many of these can I blame on Climate Change? Asking for my politically conscious friend. 4
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@bigtankmctokery5434 years ago You need to get your videographers spelling lessons. Justitian? You mean justiNian right?