The 1900 Galveston hurricane, killing around 8,000 people

When

8 Sep 1900

Kind

Tropical cyclone

Coordinates

29.28° N, 94.83° W

Description

The 1900 Galveston hurricane, killing around 8,000 people. It is the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1900 Galveston hurricane.

Category 4 Atlantic hurricane

The 1900 Galveston hurricane was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that became the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. The strongest storm of the 1900 Atlantic hurricane season, it left between 6,000 and 12,000 fatalities; the number most cited in official reports is 8,000.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der Galveston-Hurrikan, ein Stufe-4-Hurrikan, vernichtet die texanische Küstenstadt Galveston und reißt 8.000 Menschen in den Tod”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “на техасский город Галвестон обрушился смертоносный ураган, унёсший от 8 до 12 тысяч жизней”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un devastador huracán de categoría 4 en la escala de Saffir-Simpson asola Galveston, Texas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “米国ガルベストンがハリケーンで壊滅（死者六千名以上）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page