DISASTER

TORNADO
A localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, esp. in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris.




TYPHOON
A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans.




LANDSLIDES
An overwhelming electoral victory; "Roosevelt defeated Hoover in a landslide" , a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff.

EARTHQUAKE
A series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating.





TSUNAMI
An unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.