Natural Disasters Facts

A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!

The winter of 1912 was so cold that Niagara Falls partially froze, creating a massive ice bridge that tourists could walk across.

15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”