From a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these unforgettable kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction-and, against all odds, survival. These five true stories include: The Children's Blizzard, 1888; The Titanic Disaster, 1912; The Great Boston Molasses Flood, 1919; The Japanese Tsunami, 2011; and The Henryville Tornado, 2012.
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Did You Know...Facts about Five Epic Disasters
- #1 The Children’s Blizzard, 1888 There is no place on earth with more extreme weather conditions than America’s northern plains. But if that isn’t bad enough, get ready for grasshoppers, also known as locusts. Swarms containing billions of the insects would sweep down from the sky and devour everything in their path.
- #2 The Titanic Disaster, 1912 The Titanic was lost in the North Atlantic, eight hundred miles from land. For decades people searched for the wreckage. Finally, on September 2, 1985, the Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard.
- #3 The Great Boston Molasses Flood, 1919 The Great Boston Molasses Flood was one of the strangest disasters in history and has been largely forgotten besides a small metal plaque in Boston’s North End.
- #4 The Japanese Tsunami, 2011 The force of the Great Tohoku Earthquake shifted Earth on its axis. It measured 9.0 on the Richter scale making it the strongest earthquake ever to hit Japan since record keeping began.
- #5 The Henryville Tornado, 2012 An average of 1,200 tornadoes strike the United States every year. The largest tornado ever recorded was 2.6 miles wide.
