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The 80's: Decade of disaster
Man-made, natural cataclysms caused widespread damage
The Associated Press
The Earth shook, erupted, collapsed, caught fire and spawned vicious storms with regularity through the 1980s, killing tens of thousands of people around the world. But the decade's cataclysmms also included new forms of manmade tragedy.
SEPT. 19, 1985 — Earthquake strikes Mexico City: 7,000 die.
Here is a review of some of the decade's worst disasters:
NATURAL DISASTERS
MAY 18, 1980 — Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state erupts with power equivalent to 500 Hiroshima bombs. This blast and two followed within the next month killet fire damage increased more than $3 billion in damage.
MAY 24-25, 1985 — Cyclone out of Bay of Bengal comes ashore in Bangladesh; some 11,000 killed.
OCT. 11, 1880 — Earthquake in Algeria kills 6,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
NOV. 23, 1980 — More than 3,000 killed and 300,000 left homeless when an earthquake, Europe's deadliest in 65 years, devastates southern Italy
AUG. 21, 1986 — Cloud of toxic gas from volcanic Lake Nios in Cameroon envelopes several villages, killing 1,746 people and injuring 874.
NOV. 13-14, 1985 — Colombia's erupting Nevada del Ruiz volcano melts snowcaps, causing a massive town of Armero, killing 25,000 people.
MAY 7, 1987 — Approximate start
of Chinese fire fires that
kill 119 people.
SEPT, 12-16, 1988 — Hurricane Gilbert, Category 5 storm with winds up to 160 mph, strikes Jamaica, Hawaii and Texas, killing some 300 people.
OCT 19-25, 1988 — Hurricane Joan-bahamian
Johnson-in Central America
Recent disasters and their costs Since President Bush took office, there have been three major environmental disasters. Map shows dates and approximate cost.
DEC. 7, 1988 — Earthquake registering 6.9 on Richter scale kills 25,000
Knight-Ridder Tribune News/BILL BAKER and JUDY TREIBLE
OCT, 17, 1989 — Earthquake measuring 7.0 on Richter scale rattles San Francisco Bay area, killing 67 and causing estimated $7 billion in property damage.
SEPT. 17-21, 1989 — Hurricane Hugo sweeps through Caribbean and into Charleston, S.C., with 135 mph winds, killing 62.
TRANSPORTATION DISASTERS
AUG. 12, 1865 — In the decade's worst air disaster, Japan Air Lines 747 crashes into a mountain near Tokyo. Four passengers survive the crash.
DEC. 12, 1985 — Arrow Air charter DC-8 crashes shortly after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland; all 236 of the plane die, including 248 U.S. servicemen.
DEC. 20, 1987 — Philippine passenger ferry Dona Paz collides with a tanker and sinks; more than 3,000 holiday travelers are killed.
AUG. 16, 1897 — In the decade's worst U.S. domestic plane crash, Northwest Airlines MD-80 crashes on takeoff at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing 156. One passenger, a 4-year-old girl, survives.
JUNE 4, 1989 — Gas explosion in Ural mountains of Soviet Union
engulfs two passing trains, killing 645.
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS. FIRES
MARCH 27, 1980 - Offshore platform housing oil workers capsizes in North Sea off Norway, killing 123 men.
NOV. 21, 1980 — Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 87 people.
FEB. 15, 1882 — World's largest floating oil drilling rig, Ocean Ranger, sinks in storm off coast of Newfoundland, killing 84.
DEC. 3, 1984 - Leak of deadly methyl isocyanate gas at Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, kills 3,598 people, injures 20,000.
SEPT. 16, 1986 - South African gold mine fire kills 177.
APRIL 26, 1986 — Explosion and radiation leak from Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear power station kills unprotected workers. Unconfirmed reports say 250 died.
DEC. 31, 186 — Fire at Dupont Plaza hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97. Three hotel employees later plead guilty to arson charges.
JULY 6, 1988 — Piper Alpha oil platform explodes in North Sea, killing 187.
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