Video: 'Joplin, Mo., Dramatic Tornado Video: Twisters Rip Across Midwest; Levels City'

(Sunday, May 22, 2011, 5:34 p.m.-6:12 p.m. CDT; during the 2011 Joplin tornado, part of the Tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011) — The deadliest tornado to strike the United States in half a century roared into the heart of Joplin, Missouri, tonight with winds of 200 mph, claiming 158 lives (with an additional eight indirect deaths), injuring some 1,150 others and destroying about 8,000 homes and businesses.
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Video: '2011 Super Outbreak - Natural Disasters'

(Wednesday, April 27, 2011; during the 2011 Super Outbreak) — Today was the most active day of a four-day period (Apr. 25-28, 2011) known as 2011 Super Outbreak in which a record outbreak of 360 tornadoes carved a devastating path through parts of 21 states from Texas to New York and on into Canada, hitting Southern states hardest. Continue reading U.S. reports most tornado-related fatalities in a single day since 1925 10 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 27 2011) →

Video: 'Japan Earthquake Early Warning 3/11/2011 (w/ English subtitles)'

(Friday, March 11, 2011, 2:46 p.m. Japan Standard Time; during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami) — A magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck 80 miles off Japan’s northeastern coast at Sendai today, killing 15,899 people and severely damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. Continue reading 18,428 people killed or missing in tsunami following 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeastern coast 10 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 11 2011) →