I got to see a solar eclipse once. The thing that impressed me the most was the near-instant temperature drop of about ten degrees and the strong breeze that arrived at the same time.
You overlooked the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. That was devastating to the extent that 1816 was "the year without summer". Due to a misprint, the Farmers Almanac for 1816 predicted snow in Boston in July, and it did happen! That gave Farmers Almanac an undeserved reputation.
This video made me realize our written history with tornados is relatively short compared to other natural disasters. Wonder what the biggest tornado was that didn't get recorded.
I would check and see if any tribes of the America's have a story about it. They have the dead man walking tale, so surely there is spoken word about a massive tornado
@@tylermarks7463 Excellent idea. Hopefully someone has already thought of and followed up on that concept. Someone with credentials, not just camera-hungry t.v. people.
I saw a doc on the Lisbon disaster and I was shocked that I had never heard of it before. It had a profound effect on Europe because Lisbon was considered the "most" religious city in the world.
@@julianaylor4351 the history books told that seamen on a deck of a ship (unprotected ears) lost hearing. The ship was 60 km away from the krakatoa. (40 miles). As the captain wrote...half of the crew had shattered ears.
8:15 My grandfather was a survivor of this tornado. I said there was a chicken stuck in a telephone pole completely cleaned of all it's feathers and the beak was driven into the wood like a nail. He eves-n sat bits of stray sticking into wood poles like nails into wood. The smell was terrible. Not just dead people, but lots and lots of dead animals. He was awake for 2 days helping to find and rescue survivors.
The rebuild of Lisbon following the 755 earthquake brought about some interesting changes, not least of which being the Pombaline style of archiecture which included firebreaks and firewalls between residences to prevent the spread of fire. The areas of Lisbon that escaped the worst ravages of the earthquake (e.g. the Alfama) are noticably different in their layout compared to the post-earthquake town planning.
In 1925, southern Illinois had coal-mining towns back. When the Trie-State hit, the men in one of those towns were down in the mines. When they got word and came back to the surface, their homes were destroyed and their wives and children were almost all dead.
Grew up not far from the path. I understand that the miners had to climb out of the pit due to the power being knocked out. And they assumed, from the extent of the devastation, that it must have been an earthquake. They couldn't conceive of a tornado leveling the entire area.
Going back before written human history, around 74 000 years ago humans witnessed Toba supereruption. Toba (also in Indonesia) would dwarf the Krakatau eruption. It lasted between 9 to 14 days. Massive area around was covered in over 100m thick material, and it covered even the Indian subcontinent in 5cm of material, with material deposit reaching as far as Africa. Even more insane event that some of the very earliest if human ancestors were unlucky to witness some 5.3 million years ago was flood of the Mediterranean. Before the flood, water level was significantly lower and Europe and Africa were connected. However, breach at the Strait of Gibraltar let the water from Atlantic fill in the basin with estimated force of water that is thousand times that of the Amazon river discharge. Some estimates are saying the whole Mediterranean basin filled within months.
I think both these, Mediterranean and Black Sea/Caspian Sea were both inspiration for many flood myths from cultures/civilizations of that region. Which was basically MOST of the Advanced Human populations. Similar happened on almost all continents. In America I believe it was the flooding or great mud slides that produced many of the "Great Lakes". Not to mention the proposed flooding of the Gulf of Mexico which may have been caused by a meteor that early humans barely survived from by hiding in caves for Generations. It's a Rabbit hole of information if you dig deep enough....
My dad survived the Palm Sunday tornadoes in northern Indiana. He remembers carrying his baby sister over to a neighbors house because they had a basement.
I keep having similar recurring experiences like this during the week days. I get up, leave my house & head to work as usual. Everything is normal, the sun is out, birds singing, etc. I then go into work, but this is where something keeps occurring as for when I leave work again, the sun has completely vanished, no birds are singing, it's just dark & eerily quiet! This happens everyday, but only on days when I go into work.. I've come to the conclusion my work place may be cursed & my boss is most likely a demon. It would explain a lot 😂
One disaster that's not mentioned here is the New Madrid Seismic Event in 1811-1812. In a few short months more than 200 earthquakes hit the area which is now Southeast Missouri and the surrounding areas, many of which are believed to be in excess of 5 on the Richter Scale. The first and last are thought to be higher than 7 and probably 8 . The first one rang church bells in Philadelphia. Fortunately the area was sparsely populated at the time. If a similar event happened today it would cripple the US.
The Yangtse used to be called 'China's Sorrow'. A major reason for the construction of the Three Gorges dam was flood control, and to prevent a massive Yangtse flood ever happening again.
I was in Zhuhai in a Cyclone for work around 20 years ago. Worst weather I've ever seen. All the Westerners were very politely ushered back to their hotels. Doors locked. It was pretty wild. I had a steak and a good deal of scotch. In the morning there were no trees left standing. It was a newish hotel surrounded by land with shacks with people farming fish in little ponds, that was all gone as well.
What about the volcano on Santorini? Some archiologists believe it precipitated the end on the Minoan empire and shrouded the globe in ash, causing extensive crop failure across the Med, Middle East and N Africa plus extended winters for several years.
I definitely thing there is some unresolved issues. Why are you salty about a video, on the internet, that you clicked on, watched for at least 8 minutes, took the time to comment on, and knew would have footage from disasters. A boring video would be one that has no examples of the disaster. @CerberusHD
The Tunguska event was barely even noticed, to the point where the first investigation only occurred more than a decade later. Not exactly a contender for "history's worst natural disasters".
I must say I remember coming across something about a town disappearing overnight from liquified land.. haven't been able to find anymore about it but I believe it too was in a Chinese province
That sounds like something that can (with some exaggeration in the retelling) happen due to a severe earthquake. If certain soils are hit by a strong earthquake, they start behaving like a liquid, which can cause things like buildings to sink into it. Although it's unlikely in the extreme for even a single building to completely _disappear_ into the ground.
I think something like that happened in the Mexico City earthquake of 1985, the wet sand beneath tall buildings liquefied and most of the 10,000 people who died were in buildings that collapsed as their foundations sank into liquefied sand. The crazy thing was that the epicentre of the earthquake hit in a completely different area, but due to the composition of bedrock and sand, it bounced up and hit the city.
Wonderful video. Here in New Zealand we have our own supervolcanic eruption. Taupo, now Lake Taupo. Some thousands of years ago, if it were to happen today its believed that it would wipe out most life in the North Island almost immediately.
We also have the Tarawera eruption of 1883. It buried a number of towns, and killed hundreds. It is also famous for having paranormal encounters of a phantom waka for weeks before the eruption.
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The famous painting "The Scream" painted in 1893 in Norway by Edvard Munch, has a sky that was red from the ashes of the Krakatoa eruption ten years earlier in 1883. Munch witnessed the phenomenon while walking around one day.
You forgot one of the most impactful and devastating events in European history in the last 1000 years. On June 8th 1783 the Grímsvötn volcanic system underwent a fissure eruption, known on Iceland as Skaftáreldar but around the world as Laki, this eruption ran continuously for around 8 months until Feburary 7th 1784. Estimates on the death toll range from 25-40% of the then Icelandic population, althouth most experts suggest it is nearer the 25% figure - this was mostly due to flourine poisoning and the famine caused by the eruption. The eruption released 120 million tons of Sulphur dioxide, a similar amount of CO2 and an estimate 50 million tons of flourine. The devstation on Iceland was repeated across mainland Europe, with animal deaths from flourine poisoning, famine due to this and crop failures, the global mean temperature dropped by 1°C leading to winterlike conditions in Summer that lasted for several years. The ruption is linked to the French Revolution due to the famine and quality of life caused by it, there is speculation that the hardships caused also led to revolution, civil unrest and serious crime acorss the globe as a result of famine and foot shortages. This eruption may be largely forgotten, but as the Grímsvötn volcanic system in one of the largest and most active on Iceland, being right above both the divergent plate boundary (mid-ocean ridge) and the mantle plume (hotspot) which has, in recent weeks, shown signs of reawakening. This volcanic system is inextricably linked to the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe-Britain Large Igneous Province (Greenland-Iceland LIP) and this system will likely cause a similar event in the future - This system has been active for around 60 million years and show no sign of stopping, bear in mind that at least 3 of the major mass extinctions that have taken place in Earth history are inextricably linked to the formation of LIPS - Siberian Traps - 254 million years ago (End Permian extinction) - Central Atlantic Magmatic Province [CAMP] 201 million years ago (End Triassic Extinction) and of course, the Deccan Traps - 65 million years ago - same time as KT event that formed the Chixalube crater in Yukatan - nature really had got fed up with Dinosaurs!! There are plenty of other minor extinction events in history also linked to additional LIP events.
In my lifetime I’ve watched LIVE on TV or across the sky: Hailey’s Comet, All of the ‘Eclipses, “Nine Eleven” live, A wild fire destroy Australia, a Volcanic Eruption and after effects 1000 km’s away, Space shuttle launch/explosion and Atmopheric explosion. That I rember in under 30 seconds.
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Within hours of the 1871 great Chicago fire there was a massive fire in Northern Wisconsin & Northern Michigan. It wiped out Peshtigo Wisconsin killing an estimated 1500-2500 people there. At about the same time, across Lake MI, fires also destroyed some cities and spread inland. Estimates killed there are sketchy because of the hundreds of logging camps that may have been destroyed but probably in the hundreds if not thousands.
Simon, you have had a small handful of videos where you expressed your (presumably) personal opinions on the subject you are discussing. It's hard to emphasize how those videos were magnitudes better than the typical (really good) ones. I hope we see more of that. Just an observation by me--there are ramblers who talk fast, and then there are brilliant people who do the same simply because they can think at that pace. I'm certain you match the latter. I get the pretty popular/decent # of viewers model, but I just feel like you've got some exceptionally insightful opinions to share. Hopefully we see more of that soon.
He also didn’t mention the 635 eruption that causes two years without any sun. During that time, the only way to perceive such devastation was as a biblical scale punishment to the entire European continent
You forgot to mention the eruption of the Huyana Putina volcano in the 16th century which saw massive crop failures across Europe and in particular Russia which began its "Time of Troubles"
Where do you think that the 1900 Galveston hurricane fits on this list? It basically almost wiped the City of Galveston off of the map. The rebuilding is a story unto itself as the entire city was raised some 17 feet and a ten-mile-long seawall was built. The population prior to the hurricane was about 37,000 and it is estimated that upwards of one-fourth of the population was killed in the storm.
Fun fact, Lisbon old city still there as the “new” one was just rebuilt on top of it and also there’s no coastal warnings or tsunami defenses in Portugal coastline where most of the biggest cities are so if another tsunami hits, well you can tell what’s going to happen
Depending on how you calculate it the eruption of Laki in 1783 may have a death toll of over 6 million people. Apart from the 9000 people in Iceland that died the 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide that went into the atmosphere caused such harsh winters in the northern hemisphere that famine, cold and disease resulted in an estimate of 6 million deaths total.
This was interesting, but how did the tornado that killed 700 make it into second place, directly ahead of an earthquake that killed 800,000? It was bad, but not top five bad.
It isn't because of that A blue moon is when there are two full moons in the same month, doesn't happen often, once every three years, hence once in a blue moon
The Lisbon Earthquake is a fascinating event. Until today, we don´t know where its epicenter was, which faults ruptured and how strong it actually was. (The Magnitude estimation is based on epicenter and rupturing faults). So we cannot even guess how likely a repetition in any given year is. Also its very interesting that it trigeered high Earthquake Activity in "nearby" Regions. Famously the 18th November 1755 Cape Ann Earthquake offshore Massachusetts. But also in Morocco (19th November in Meknes and Fes, killing thousands), Switzerland (9th November, Magnitde 6) and Germany (Düren, M6.4 in February 1756, foreshocks started in December). Some newer Research assumes that three smaller Faults simultaneously ruptured in the Lisbon Earthquake. One which caused the Tsunami, one which caused the Destruction of Lisbon and one which caused severe destruction further South. The Magnitude could have been as low as 7.8. A comparison could be drawn to the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake which ruptured 25 faults in quck succession.
I’m assuming we’re not including pandemics in this list of natural disasters, because if you did, most of the entries would be pandemics, and arguably the worst natural disaster in human history was the Black Death.
…Is there a way to disable the automatic translation feature? For some reason the title of this video in German is “Sideprojects Jan 2025 Incogni-Anzeigenintegration” which means “Sideprojects Jan 2025 Incogni display integration”. That’s an odd title to say the least. And that’s completely ignoring that the automatic dubbing that UA-cam added is weird and shit as well. Luckily you can turn this off easily. But seeing these either badly translated titles or sometimes odd titles often prevents me from clicking on a video, since why would I watch it when I’m not even sure what it’s about. And even worse when it misleads me, since it presents the video as being in my native language, when it actually isn’t. Even if I don’t have a problem with watching English videos, in a weird way I feel “disappointed” and often don’t want to continue watching. Anyways, that was my little rant. The UA-cam auto translate feature is annoying
What the ones that coming this year , since no doubt it's going a hot summer .And hot summer's always have disasters , I mean you peeps in the old county had on 87 , which I missed as kid .Since I was on a European Vacation that summer , and all I remember the U.K . , that summer was the rain , since there was not much sun there at time . But there was a major storm there ,and sounds bad .Even talking to the odd dudes from London , like you should talk about that .But Europe in the eighties was sweet .
So Krakatoa caused the ark storm in 1880s California. Moved the "atmospheric river" with 9 volcanoes going off in Indonesia presently, that could happen any moment again. Killing los Angeles and san Francisco again.
Not to yuk anyones yum, but for an informational video I just feel the need to add some context to how Tornados are classified (Environmental Scientist here). Tornados are not classified just off wind speed, but also how much damage they inflict, so there can be a very powerful tornado, but if it doesn't hit anything, then it doesn't get a high classification. For example, in 2024, Oklahoma had one of the strongest tornados ever recorded, but because it happened in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma, it never got an EF5 rating when if it hit a populated area it would've.
well somehow the video is tittled " Projets annexes Janvier 2025 Intégration des publicités Incogni " wich is translated in french from i dont know where but okay. :)
Anyone else getting sent to the UA-cam ad centre page sometimes when clicking on Simon's thumbnails lately? Cant say if its just this channel or not (i usually just click on Simon's beautiful face, not a certain channel lol) but just know that 3 times now recently i have clicked and the first time it takes me to ad centre, then when i go back out to home page and click again it takes me to the actual video. I guess it's no big deal just a bit of a nuisance and i wonder if anyone else is getting the same.
The 1902 eruptions of Mt. Peleé on the island of Martinique was one of the worst in recorded history. Killed the entire population (28,000) of Saint-Pierre save for one prisoner in the local jail. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludger_Sylbaris ~ if you're wondering... One of the few survivors in the blast zone that lived past the disaster was Léon Compère-Léandre. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Comp%C3%A8re-L%C3%A9andre
Genuine question: how the hell do places like Russia and China manage to have nearly a hundred different instances of “oh, 50 million people died in this one conflict.” And yet still have a high population today?
Russia didn’t get that way until the 1800’s and wasn’t much more populated than France then. China on the other hand is more of bottling all the resources necessary to have napoleonic levels of warfare every couple centuries. Both recover pretty quickly due to having extremely fertile plains, and extremely calorically dense staple crops (rice & potato)
Thankfully through the science of what it takes ti form a tornado and paleo climatology we do know. Theres never really been a time in earths history where the conditions would lead to stronger storms. Even when the climate was much hotter, meaning more fuel for storms, the shape and location of the continents limited their ability. We have such strong tornadoes now because the climate and location and geography are in a sweet spot. Sorry, i have to listen to the rants of a tornado obsessed paleo climatologist so i make it everyone elses problem when the chance arises.
Earthquakes are terrifying/amazing/and fascinating... i know people living in more geoactive will probably jidge me for it .... and I trul: xeel with them... I an austrian whitnesed my bed wobble while layingi it a couple of years ago ... knowing somethimg was wrong... Couple of hours later i sadly heard the news about what was for me ""that was an exciting ride of mymatress" ... Was an earthquake that sadly killed some 300 in italy.
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Data breaches are up 72% from 2024?
I got to see a solar eclipse once. The thing that impressed me the most was the near-instant temperature drop of about ten degrees and the strong breeze that arrived at the same time.
Cool. I’m looking forward to seeing a couple of total eclipses, in 2026 & 2027.😉✌️🤘
And the complete silence of the birds
@@tylerforaker636 Eerie, that silence....
Yo. Same. The crazy shadows from the leaves on the trees in my yard were trippy af too.
The shadows going crazy was something I'll never forget
You overlooked the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. That was devastating to the extent that 1816 was "the year without summer". Due to a misprint, the Farmers Almanac for 1816 predicted snow in Boston in July, and it did happen! That gave Farmers Almanac an undeserved reputation.
Yes, I just commented this aswell... Tambora was a magnitude higher and by far the biggest erruption in modern history.
If every event was listed the video would never end.
I know Simon covered that in at least one video somewhere...
I just commented the same before scrolling down the comments.
@jackmason5278 That's definitely 1 I was expecting for sure to rate highly on a global scale effect.
This video made me realize our written history with tornados is relatively short compared to other natural disasters. Wonder what the biggest tornado was that didn't get recorded.
I was just reading about the "impossible" heights of rogue waves. Just another thing to worry about. Nah, I'm 15 miles inland from the Atlantic.
@@rondohunter8966 It's not so much about how far away from the ocean you are at the time, but how high up you happen to be.
@mikitz In Florida. I checked and found my house is thirteen feet above sea level. Plus a tributary about a half mile away. Not looking very good.
I would check and see if any tribes of the America's have a story about it. They have the dead man walking tale, so surely there is spoken word about a massive tornado
@@tylermarks7463 Excellent idea. Hopefully someone has already thought of and followed up on that concept. Someone with credentials, not just camera-hungry t.v. people.
I saw a doc on the Lisbon disaster and I was shocked that I had never heard of it before. It had a profound effect on Europe because Lisbon was considered the "most" religious city in the world.
The sound of Krakatoa was picked up by a recording cylinder in Australia. It can be heard online.
It's absolutely horrifying and at least I can adjust the volume
@@alexisc6136 Totally agree that shockwave at the end of the recording is what killed people, on nearby land.
@@julianaylor4351 the history books told that seamen on a deck of a ship (unprotected ears) lost hearing. The ship was 60 km away from the krakatoa. (40 miles). As the captain wrote...half of the crew had shattered ears.
WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO POST WHERE ONLINE IT CAN BE HEARD?
@Genesh12 Google the real sound of Krakatoa erupting on UA-cam, there are several versions of different lengths.
8:15 My grandfather was a survivor of this tornado. I said there was a chicken stuck in a telephone pole completely cleaned of all it's feathers and the beak was driven into the wood like a nail.
He eves-n sat bits of stray sticking into wood poles like nails into wood.
The smell was terrible. Not just dead people, but lots and lots of dead animals. He was awake for 2 days helping to find and rescue survivors.
The rebuild of Lisbon following the 755 earthquake brought about some interesting changes, not least of which being the Pombaline style of archiecture which included firebreaks and firewalls between residences to prevent the spread of fire. The areas of Lisbon that escaped the worst ravages of the earthquake (e.g. the Alfama) are noticably different in their layout compared to the post-earthquake town planning.
Genuinely a shame art was lost in it.
So Lisbon in the 700s was smarter than Los Angeles in the 1900s and 2000s?
In 1925, southern Illinois had coal-mining towns back. When the Trie-State hit, the men in one of those towns were down in the mines. When they got word and came back to the surface, their homes were destroyed and their wives and children were almost all dead.
Grew up not far from the path. I understand that the miners had to climb out of the pit due to the power being knocked out. And they assumed, from the extent of the devastation, that it must have been an earthquake. They couldn't conceive of a tornado leveling the entire area.
@@davidcox3076 -- A truly terrible event.
Going back before written human history, around 74 000 years ago humans witnessed Toba supereruption. Toba (also in Indonesia) would dwarf the Krakatau eruption. It lasted between 9 to 14 days. Massive area around was covered in over 100m thick material, and it covered even the Indian subcontinent in 5cm of material, with material deposit reaching as far as Africa.
Even more insane event that some of the very earliest if human ancestors were unlucky to witness some 5.3 million years ago was flood of the Mediterranean. Before the flood, water level was significantly lower and Europe and Africa were connected. However, breach at the Strait of Gibraltar let the water from Atlantic fill in the basin with estimated force of water that is thousand times that of the Amazon river discharge. Some estimates are saying the whole Mediterranean basin filled within months.
See also the Black Sea basin's filling...
I think both these, Mediterranean and Black Sea/Caspian Sea were both inspiration for many flood myths from cultures/civilizations of that region. Which was basically MOST of the Advanced Human populations. Similar happened on almost all continents. In America I believe it was the flooding or great mud slides that produced many of the "Great Lakes". Not to mention the proposed flooding of the Gulf of Mexico which may have been caused by a meteor that early humans barely survived from by hiding in caves for Generations. It's a Rabbit hole of information if you dig deep enough....
The 416AD Krakatoa eruption makes the 1883 one look like a firecracker…
Proof we going to go out with a bang, pun intended
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@ The written records of the time state the entire Sunda strait was created by this eruption…
My dad survived the Palm Sunday tornadoes in northern Indiana. He remembers carrying his baby sister over to a neighbors house because they had a basement.
I keep having similar recurring experiences like this during the week days. I get up, leave my house & head to work as usual. Everything is normal, the sun is out, birds singing, etc. I then go into work, but this is where something keeps occurring as for when I leave work again, the sun has completely vanished, no birds are singing, it's just dark & eerily quiet! This happens everyday, but only on days when I go into work.. I've come to the conclusion my work place may be cursed & my boss is most likely a demon. It would explain a lot 😂
Do you live close to the mountains?
@gerarduspoppel2831 probably
@gazcoleman you don't know if you live close to mountains?
Excited for this! been binge watching your videos simon, your content is actually so consistent for over 5 years. Keep it up!
One disaster that's not mentioned here is the New Madrid Seismic Event in 1811-1812. In a few short months more than 200 earthquakes hit the area which is now Southeast Missouri and the surrounding areas, many of which are believed to be in excess of 5 on the Richter Scale. The first and last are thought to be higher than 7 and probably 8 . The first one rang church bells in Philadelphia. Fortunately the area was sparsely populated at the time. If a similar event happened today it would cripple the US.
The Yangtse used to be called 'China's Sorrow'.
A major reason for the construction of the Three Gorges dam was flood control, and to prevent a massive Yangtse flood ever happening again.
I was in Zhuhai in a Cyclone for work around 20 years ago. Worst weather I've ever seen. All the Westerners were very politely ushered back to their hotels. Doors locked. It was pretty wild. I had a steak and a good deal of scotch. In the morning there were no trees left standing. It was a newish hotel surrounded by land with shacks with people farming fish in little ponds, that was all gone as well.
I have been waiting for a video, Simon! This made my day, thanks!
There is a 2007 BBC drama called 'Krakatoa: the last days' which you can find on you tube. I can't recommend it highly enough
I saw it… very good watched it twice 🧐
What about the volcano on Santorini? Some archiologists believe it precipitated the end on the Minoan empire and shrouded the globe in ash, causing extensive crop failure across the Med, Middle East and N Africa plus extended winters for several years.
0:40 - Chapter 1 - The 1755 lisbon earthquake & tsunami
2:40 - Mid roll ads
3:40 - Chapter 2 - The 1883 krakatoa eruption
6:00 - Chapter 3 - The 1556 shaanxi earthquake
8:15 - Chapter 4 - The 1925 tri state tornado
9:55 - Chapter 5 - The 1931 china floods
Thank you. Doing God's work
Simon: .... worst natural disasters, that were never recorded on video.
8 minutes later: *shows clips of the disaster as it happens*
Well... he's "technically" correct. Caught on film and a video recording can be rationalized as not being the same thing. lol
Why you hate so much?
@@garrettfields6972 not hate, fact... reality is ugly? deal with it.
I definitely thing there is some unresolved issues. Why are you salty about a video, on the internet, that you clicked on, watched for at least 8 minutes, took the time to comment on, and knew would have footage from disasters. A boring video would be one that has no examples of the disaster. @CerberusHD
According to Wiki, no known footage of the disaster is known to exist. Only post disaster shots.
No mention of the 1900 Galveston hurricane? The worst natural disaster ever in the US.
@paigeharrison3909 Nothing that hurts Texas is a bad thing.
@@Rambam1776 Nothing that hurts your mother is a bad thing
@cwburntorange as long as it doesn't happen in fucking Texas.
@@Rambam1776Texas and its residents will be glad for you to stay away, we’d have no use for you.
@@Rambam1776 You seem like someone who lectures others about tolerance, has a coexist bumper sticker, and possesses no self-awareness of the irony.
The Tunguska Event and the Toba Eruption were something else entirely.
The Tunguska event was barely even noticed, to the point where the first investigation only occurred more than a decade later. Not exactly a contender for "history's worst natural disasters".
@@LeyrannIt would have been considered a pretty big disaster had it hit a major city, but fortunately it hit in the Siberian tundra.
I must say I remember coming across something about a town disappearing overnight from liquified land.. haven't been able to find anymore about it but I believe it too was in a Chinese province
I think that happened in Pennsylvania, USA. I'm pretty sure I know the one you're referring to. Edit: or was it in Canada?...
@@firstnamelastname6216i think it was canada, near the niagara border though
That sounds like something that can (with some exaggeration in the retelling) happen due to a severe earthquake. If certain soils are hit by a strong earthquake, they start behaving like a liquid, which can cause things like buildings to sink into it. Although it's unlikely in the extreme for even a single building to completely _disappear_ into the ground.
I think something like that happened in the Mexico City earthquake of 1985, the wet sand beneath tall buildings liquefied and most of the 10,000 people who died were in buildings that collapsed as their foundations sank into liquefied sand. The crazy thing was that the epicentre of the earthquake hit in a completely different area, but due to the composition of bedrock and sand, it bounced up and hit the city.
Good video Simon keep it up your doing great!
Wonderful introduction and informative historical coverage video
Wonderful video. Here in New Zealand we have our own supervolcanic eruption. Taupo, now Lake Taupo. Some thousands of years ago, if it were to happen today its believed that it would wipe out most life in the North Island almost immediately.
We also have the Tarawera eruption of 1883. It buried a number of towns, and killed hundreds.
It is also famous for having paranormal encounters of a phantom waka for weeks before the eruption.
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I'll hold it as a badge of honor that you once offered me a position. You, Sir, have exquisite taste!
wow, im so early for once, that comment section is only seg bots
I'm here too
Yeah. It's getting messed up.
Hoped you'd include the Laki Fissure eruption x
You are are thorough professional Simon
The famous painting "The Scream" painted in 1893 in Norway by Edvard Munch, has a sky that was red from the ashes of the Krakatoa eruption ten years earlier in 1883. Munch witnessed the phenomenon while walking around one day.
The 1970 Bhola Cyclone was probably covered in one of your other videos, or other channels, but it considered one of the worst natural disasters ever.
You forgot one of the most impactful and devastating events in European history in the last 1000 years. On June 8th 1783 the Grímsvötn volcanic system underwent a fissure eruption, known on Iceland as Skaftáreldar but around the world as Laki, this eruption ran continuously for around 8 months until Feburary 7th 1784. Estimates on the death toll range from 25-40% of the then Icelandic population, althouth most experts suggest it is nearer the 25% figure - this was mostly due to flourine poisoning and the famine caused by the eruption. The eruption released 120 million tons of Sulphur dioxide, a similar amount of CO2 and an estimate 50 million tons of flourine. The devstation on Iceland was repeated across mainland Europe, with animal deaths from flourine poisoning, famine due to this and crop failures, the global mean temperature dropped by 1°C leading to winterlike conditions in Summer that lasted for several years. The ruption is linked to the French Revolution due to the famine and quality of life caused by it, there is speculation that the hardships caused also led to revolution, civil unrest and serious crime acorss the globe as a result of famine and foot shortages.
This eruption may be largely forgotten, but as the Grímsvötn volcanic system in one of the largest and most active on Iceland, being right above both the divergent plate boundary (mid-ocean ridge) and the mantle plume (hotspot) which has, in recent weeks, shown signs of reawakening. This volcanic system is inextricably linked to the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe-Britain Large Igneous Province (Greenland-Iceland LIP) and this system will likely cause a similar event in the future - This system has been active for around 60 million years and show no sign of stopping, bear in mind that at least 3 of the major mass extinctions that have taken place in Earth history are inextricably linked to the formation of LIPS - Siberian Traps - 254 million years ago (End Permian extinction) - Central Atlantic Magmatic Province [CAMP] 201 million years ago (End Triassic Extinction) and of course, the Deccan Traps - 65 million years ago - same time as KT event that formed the Chixalube crater in Yukatan - nature really had got fed up with Dinosaurs!! There are plenty of other minor extinction events in history also linked to additional LIP events.
In my lifetime I’ve watched LIVE on TV or across the sky: Hailey’s Comet, All of the ‘Eclipses, “Nine Eleven” live, A wild fire destroy Australia, a Volcanic Eruption and after effects 1000 km’s away, Space shuttle launch/explosion and Atmopheric explosion. That I rember in under 30 seconds.
The 1925 footage of that tornado is very scary
It’s so sad seeing how confused people are after a disaster just wandering aimlessly trying to make sense of it all
Not being an 'every day' happening, I can understand that.
Could you turn up the volume a bit? I love all your channels but find it hard to hear, even with my ear buds! Thanks and keep up the great work!!!
Probably your earbuds faulty, audio level is fine
Use the captions! Hit the "CC" box on bottom right corner. OR - Hit the "gear wheel" for settings, choose subtitles... you can change the subtitle's color, size, location, background color, etc via "options" Cheers!
lol sorry ur hard of hearing ! bet ur a liberal !
@ Wow what an @$$h0l3 thing to say!
Within hours of the 1871 great Chicago fire there was a massive fire in Northern Wisconsin & Northern Michigan. It wiped out Peshtigo Wisconsin killing an estimated 1500-2500 people there. At about the same time, across Lake MI, fires also destroyed some cities and spread inland. Estimates killed there are sketchy because of the hundreds of logging camps that may have been destroyed but probably in the hundreds if not thousands.
Simon, you have had a small handful of videos where you expressed your (presumably) personal opinions on the subject you are discussing. It's hard to emphasize how those videos were magnitudes better than the typical (really good) ones. I hope we see more of that.
Just an observation by me--there are ramblers who talk fast, and then there are brilliant people who do the same simply because they can think at that pace. I'm certain you match the latter. I get the pretty popular/decent # of viewers model, but I just feel like you've got some exceptionally insightful opinions to share.
Hopefully we see more of that soon.
Much better content Simon. No random discussion or jokes straight to the vid... keep up the great work man!
You forgot the eruption of mount Tambora which caused worldwide climate change, disasters, crop failure, colored skies, and the year without summer.
He also didn’t mention the 635 eruption that causes two years without any sun. During that time, the only way to perceive such devastation was as a biblical scale punishment to the entire European continent
You forgot to mention the eruption of the Huyana Putina volcano in the 16th century which saw massive crop failures across Europe and in particular Russia which began its "Time of Troubles"
Where do you think that the 1900 Galveston hurricane fits on this list? It basically almost wiped the City of Galveston off of the map. The rebuilding is a story unto itself as the entire city was raised some 17 feet and a ten-mile-long seawall was built. The population prior to the hurricane was about 37,000 and it is estimated that upwards of one-fourth of the population was killed in the storm.
Fun fact, Lisbon old city still there as the “new” one was just rebuilt on top of it and also there’s no coastal warnings or tsunami defenses in Portugal coastline where most of the biggest cities are so if another tsunami hits, well you can tell what’s going to happen
There is a warning system in place
@ ahh fair enough, must be new(ish) there wasn’t when I used to live there but we were all thought in school what to do if it did happen anyways
Imagine if incogni was actually the scam callers themselves and you stop receiving them so you can keep paying them.
Depending on how you calculate it the eruption of Laki in 1783 may have a death toll of over 6 million people. Apart from the 9000 people in Iceland that died the 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide that went into the atmosphere caused such harsh winters in the northern hemisphere that famine, cold and disease resulted in an estimate of 6 million deaths total.
This was interesting, but how did the tornado that killed 700 make it into second place, directly ahead of an earthquake that killed 800,000? It was bad, but not top five bad.
Simon is still the voice of doom o graphics. Keep it up. 😅
lol the democrats tried that crap! lol
The eruption of the Krakatoa I the 6th century (525?) Which spoit Sumatra and Java.
You're keeping your skills sharp buddy
The 1925 tri-state tornado is thought by many (but not all) to be multiple tornadoes.
5:35 that's where the expression 'once in a blue moon' comes from.
It isn't because of that
A blue moon is when there are two full moons in the same month, doesn't happen often, once every three years, hence once in a blue moon
The Lisbon Earthquake is a fascinating event. Until today, we don´t know where its epicenter was, which faults ruptured and how strong it actually was. (The Magnitude estimation is based on epicenter and rupturing faults). So we cannot even guess how likely a repetition in any given year is. Also its very interesting that it trigeered high Earthquake Activity in "nearby" Regions. Famously the 18th November 1755 Cape Ann Earthquake offshore Massachusetts. But also in Morocco (19th November in Meknes and Fes, killing thousands), Switzerland (9th November, Magnitde 6) and Germany (Düren, M6.4 in February 1756, foreshocks started in December).
Some newer Research assumes that three smaller Faults simultaneously ruptured in the Lisbon Earthquake. One which caused the Tsunami, one which caused the Destruction of Lisbon and one which caused severe destruction further South. The Magnitude could have been as low as 7.8. A comparison could be drawn to the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake which ruptured 25 faults in quck succession.
I’m assuming we’re not including pandemics in this list of natural disasters, because if you did, most of the entries would be pandemics, and arguably the worst natural disaster in human history was the Black Death.
EF tornado ratings are based on the amount of DAMAGE the tornado causes not on the size of the tornado.
The Krakatoa explosion was the second biggest explosion, apparently there was one near Greece around the 5th century.
The Czar Bomba detonation test was actually 25 Megatons, though it could have been 'tuned' to 50 megatons.
Wrong
It was 50, with the possibility of a 100.
Would mount Tambura (1815) warrant its own video?
The Brescia Cathedral Gunpowder Disaster is one of the biggest man made disasters to ever to occur. A mix of a man made disaster and an act of god.
One's imagination can barely contain the scope of these horrors.
Man could make this video an hour long.
…Is there a way to disable the automatic translation feature?
For some reason the title of this video in German is “Sideprojects Jan 2025 Incogni-Anzeigenintegration” which means “Sideprojects Jan 2025 Incogni display integration”. That’s an odd title to say the least.
And that’s completely ignoring that the automatic dubbing that UA-cam added is weird and shit as well. Luckily you can turn this off easily. But seeing these either badly translated titles or sometimes odd titles often prevents me from clicking on a video, since why would I watch it when I’m not even sure what it’s about. And even worse when it misleads me, since it presents the video as being in my native language, when it actually isn’t. Even if I don’t have a problem with watching English videos, in a weird way I feel “disappointed” and often don’t want to continue watching.
Anyways, that was my little rant. The UA-cam auto translate feature is annoying
In this case it means Incogni-Ad-integration as Anzeige in this context means Werbung
@@orwor3923 It is still very weird, though. Obviously, that has nothing to do with the actual content of the video.
We humans like to think we're in charge of the planet, but we are NOT
I am vaguely remembering the earthquake being depicted in a video game. I can't remember the name of the game though
Next planet alignment 20/01/26 the last time this alignment happened was the carrington event
WOW. WE ALREADY ARE THAT POINT WE ARE REPEATING STORIES OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
I hope your flu gets better, Simon.
What the ones that coming this year , since no doubt it's going a hot summer .And hot summer's always have disasters , I mean you peeps in the old county had on 87 , which I missed as kid .Since I was on a European Vacation that summer , and all I remember the U.K . , that summer was the rain , since there was not much sun there at time . But there was a major storm there ,and sounds bad .Even talking to the odd dudes from London , like you should talk about that .But Europe in the eighties was sweet .
Lake Taupo/Oruanui eruption : "Casuals".
How is Krakatoa on here, but not Tambora?
Soooo, we're not talking about the ARG, The Sun Vanished? 😉
So Krakatoa caused the ark storm in 1880s California. Moved the "atmospheric river" with 9 volcanoes going off in Indonesia presently, that could happen any moment again. Killing los Angeles and san Francisco again.
I guess this video title should change at some point over the next few minutes 😂
Sideprojects Jan 2025 Incogni-Adsintegration
I should have gone to bed 12 minutes earlier.
1970s cyclone killed a million people in Bangladeshi. Has to be in the top 5.
Not to yuk anyones yum, but for an informational video I just feel the need to add some context to how Tornados are classified (Environmental Scientist here). Tornados are not classified just off wind speed, but also how much damage they inflict, so there can be a very powerful tornado, but if it doesn't hit anything, then it doesn't get a high classification. For example, in 2024, Oklahoma had one of the strongest tornados ever recorded, but because it happened in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma, it never got an EF5 rating when if it hit a populated area it would've.
well somehow the video is tittled " Projets annexes Janvier 2025 Intégration des publicités Incogni " wich is translated in french from i dont know where but okay. :)
Sideprojects Jan 2025 Incogni-Anzeigenintegration 😂
Simon can you cover the grand Solar Minimum
Yeah them herikins are wild asf.
Anyone else getting sent to the UA-cam ad centre page sometimes when clicking on Simon's thumbnails lately? Cant say if its just this channel or not (i usually just click on Simon's beautiful face, not a certain channel lol) but just know that 3 times now recently i have clicked and the first time it takes me to ad centre, then when i go back out to home page and click again it takes me to the actual video. I guess it's no big deal just a bit of a nuisance and i wonder if anyone else is getting the same.
Port Royal Jamaica destroyed by Earthquake was a nasty one.
The 1902 eruptions of Mt. Peleé on the island of Martinique was one of the worst in recorded history. Killed the entire population (28,000) of Saint-Pierre save for one prisoner in the local jail.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludger_Sylbaris ~ if you're wondering...
One of the few survivors in the blast zone that lived past the disaster was Léon Compère-Léandre.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Comp%C3%A8re-L%C3%A9andre
Genuine question: how the hell do places like Russia and China manage to have nearly a hundred different instances of “oh, 50 million people died in this one conflict.” And yet still have a high population today?
Russia didn’t get that way until the 1800’s and wasn’t much more populated than France then.
China on the other hand is more of bottling all the resources necessary to have napoleonic levels of warfare every couple centuries.
Both recover pretty quickly due to having extremely fertile plains, and extremely calorically dense staple crops (rice & potato)
@ so their population can bounce back from ruin due to food surplus?
Is this a David Copperfield Magic Trick?
Of all those disasters, I think I would pick the tornado.
You forgot to mention
Kathy Griffin's career
Why does his website ask me to sign into something
Interesting translated title
Lisbon was the 4th largest European city at the time of the earthquake, not the biggest
What i learned is fire follows earthquake tsunami tornado volcano soooo move to desert? Lol
Not sure what natural disasters have to do with Warfronts (formerly Warogaphics)
You should do your other channels more, think you'd get more👍👍👍
9:49 *in recorded history, that we know of
Thankfully through the science of what it takes ti form a tornado and paleo climatology we do know. Theres never really been a time in earths history where the conditions would lead to stronger storms. Even when the climate was much hotter, meaning more fuel for storms, the shape and location of the continents limited their ability. We have such strong tornadoes now because the climate and location and geography are in a sweet spot. Sorry, i have to listen to the rants of a tornado obsessed paleo climatologist so i make it everyone elses problem when the chance arises.
I read that in Lindsey’s voice. ❤
@@kennethloki7011This is likely true, HOWEVER, Nature has a way of throwing things that simply should not be, once in a very great while...
Yes, recorded history is that which we know of, by definition, since, you know, there was no history recorded before that point. Lol
"That we know of" is LITERALLY what "recorded history" means
Earthquakes are terrifying/amazing/and fascinating... i know people living in more geoactive will probably jidge me for it .... and I trul: xeel with them...
I an austrian whitnesed my bed wobble while layingi it a couple of years ago ... knowing somethimg was wrong...
Couple of hours later i sadly heard the news about what was for me ""that was an exciting ride of mymatress" ...
Was an earthquake that sadly killed some 300 in italy.
I feel this video should have been like 3 hours long boss
Wuhan is pretty damn unlucky looking at it now
Its insane China had these two insane natural disasters. Hopefully it has a pretty peaceful political history!
How is this a side project?