Catastrophes with the highest number of fatalities:
1. End of August: Floods in India and Bangladesh - 1,200
2. Feb. 6: Floods in Mozambique, South Africa - 920
3. July 4: Floods in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos - 880
4. March: The killing of doomsday-cult members in Uganda - 780
5. Aug. 2: Floods in India, Nepal and Bhutan - 621.
Catastrophes with the greatest cost to the insurance industry (in U.S. dollars):
1. Sept. 10: Tokai floods in Japan - $1.04 billion
2. End of October: Storms and floods across Western Europe - $725 million
3. Jan. 22: Winter storm, frost, ice and snow in the United States - $550 million
4. March 28: Tornadoes, rain and hail in the United States - $520 million
5. Oct. 14: Floods and landslides in Italy, Switzerland and France - $450 million
DECEMBER 2000:
29th - CENTRAL U.S. - MASSIVE SNOWSTORM - 41 DEAD - Tens of thousands of people in the area were without heat and power.
27th - ARGENTINA & URUGUAY - HUGE STORM - 2 DEAD - more than 430 were left homeless.
27th - SRI LANKA - CYCLONE - 8 DEAD - forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
26th - MOROCCO - FLOODS - 6 DEAD - many houses damaged.
19th - BRAZIL - FLOODS AND MUDSLIDES TRIGGERED BY 2 DAYS OF HEAVY RAINS - 13 DEAD - more than 2000 driven from their homes.
17th - ITALIAN ALPS - INVISIBLE ICE - 10 DEAD - A "strange, nonsensical winter" with early snow followed by rain and sun apparently has made for dangerously deceiving conditions in the southern Alps, with almost invisible ice.
14th - U.S. MIDWEST, SOUTH, NORTHEAST - SNOWSTORMS - 10 DEAD - Bad weather continues to cause havoc.
14th - ONTARIO, CANADA - MORE THAN 20 INCHES OF SNOW - 1 DEAD - 1 injured when a shopping mall roof collapsed.
13th - AUSTRALIA - MASSIVE CYCLONE - 163 DEAD - A group of up to 163 illegal immigrants feared drowned while trying to reach Australia from Indonesia likely sailed into the massive cyclone.
8th - WESTERN EUROPE - STORMS AND FLOODING - 11 DEAD.
3rd - EAST JAVA, INDONESIA - MOUNT BROMO VOLCANO - began spewing columns of ash blanketing neighboring cities and forcing officials to declare the area off limits to tourists.
Mount Bromo is part of a chain of active volcanoes stretching across Java. After nearly a decade of dormancy, it became active again in March 1995, and later in the year began a period of even stronger activity with major ash cloud eruptions accompanied with a high-level of seismic activity.
2nd - EASTERN INDONESIA - HEAVY FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES TRIGGERED BY DAYS OF INCESSANT RAINS - 4 DEAD - more than 10,000 evacuated.
27th - AZEERBAIJAN - EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE triggered a natural gas explosion that tore through three stories of an apartment building in the capital city of Baku - 2 DEAD - more than 100 were injured.
26th - WEST SUMATRA - FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES SET OFF BY TORRENTIAL RAINS - 86 DEAD -The worst landslide killed at least 42 and covered dozens of villages with mud. The death toll is
likely to climb as rescuers continue searching.
25TH - AZERBAIJAN - 6.3 EARTHQUAKE - 3 DEAD OF QUAKE INJURIES - 20 DEAD OF HEART ATTACKS.
24th - SWEDEN - WORST FLOODING IN OVER 100 YEARS - many rivers and lakes are predicted to keep rising for the rest of the year and stay swollen until next spring or summer. All lakes and rivers in central Sweden have reached dangerous levels, with more rain on the way.
22ND - MALAYSIA AND THAILAND - FLOODS TRIGGERED BY TORRENTIAL MONSOON DOWNPOURS - 126 DEAD.
21st - MOZAMBIQUE - A FIERCE STORM THAT RAGED FOR SEVERAL DAYS - 9 DEAD - Mozambique is still recovering from devastating floods that hit the country nine months ago.
20th - ITALY - LANDSLIDES AND HEAVY RAIN - 5 DEAD - no end to the bad weather is in sight..
20th - SRI LANKA - 3 DAYS OF MONSOON RAINS, FLOODS ARE WREAKING HAVOC.
20TH - AUSTRALIA - MUDDY FLOODWATERS STRETCH ACROSS AN AREA THE SIZE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM - some Australian farmers have not seen a pay cheque for five years after battling several seasons of droughts, floods, disease and low crop yields.
19th - GREECE - TORRENTIAL RAINS TRIGGERED FLASH FLOODING - 1 DEAD - thousands forced to flee their homes.
19th - AUSTRALIA - FLOODING - towns are becoming islands as 12 rivers flood.
18th - PAPUA NEW GUINEA - 5 POWERFUL EARTHQUAKES - 3 DEAD - 5000 homeless.
18th - AUSTRIA - 2 AVALANCHES - 4 DEAD - 2 missing.
18th - SRI LANKA - FLOODS - 10,000 families displaced.
18th - MEXICO - COLD WEATHER - 21 DEAD.
17th - VIETNAM - TORRENTIAL RAINS - 31 DEAD.
17th - SLOVENIA - MUDSLIDE - 7 DEAD - an Alpine village virtually wiped out as millions of tonnes of mud and stones splashed over the valley like a huge wave, trapping some people in their homes.
16th - PAPUA NEW GUINEA - 8.0 EARTHQUAKE - triggered a small tidal wave - minor damage.
15th - VENEZUELA - HEAVY RAINS - 3 DEAD - 2400 homeless - state of emergency declared.
11th - VENEZUELA - HEAVY RAINS - 6 DEAD.
10th - ALABAMA & TENNESSEE - POWERFUL STORMS - 2 DEAD - severe damage.
9TH - SOUTH AFRICA - TORNADO - 2 DEAD - at least 20 others were injured.
The powerful storm lasted two hours and left 400 people from nine communities homeless.
7th - TEXAS - ONGOING RECORD RAIN AND TORNADOES — 6 DEAD - The airport collected a record 2.14 inches of rain on one day, breaking the previous record for the same day of 1.59 inches, which was set in 1957.
6th - WESTERN EUROPE - HEAVY RAIN - 12 DEAD.
6th - ITALY - RAINSTORMS - 2 DEAD - flooding is feared.
6th - FRANCE - STORMS - 1 DEAD
6th - ENGLAND - FLOODING - 2 DEAD - more rain expected.
6th - INDONESIA - LANDSLIDES TRIGGERED BY TORRENTIAL RAINS - 52 DEAD - the death toll is likely to climb. It was the second series of landslides in a week.
5th - ENGLAND - WORST FLOODS THE COUNTRY HAS SEEN FOR 100 YEARS - and more heavy rain is expected.
4th - TEXAS - RELENTLESS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR 2 DAYS - 5 DEAD.
3RD - HAWAII - MORE THAN 2 FEET OF RAIN IN 24 HOURS - broke the previous 24-hour record of 22.3 inches set in 1979. Firefighters rescued families trapped in their homes by floodwater, and several landslides were reported on the Hawaii Belt Highwa.
3rd - PHILIPPINES - TYPHOON BEBINCA - 24 DEAD.
2ND - CHILE - VILLARRICA VOLCANO ERUPTION ALERT - increased seismic activity around the mountain. Villarrica has experienced more frequent seismic activity since Oct. 5, when one of its craters became blocked by boulders. Volcanologists said the blockage would lead to the buildup of pressure and the increased danger of an explosion.
1st - INDONESIA - NUMEROUS LANDSLIDES - 40 DEAD - Torrents of mud loosened by days of monsoon rains roared through the mountainous region, burying homes and rice crops.
The slides have struck four communities and more than 4,000 people have been left homeless.
1st - TEXAS - WORST DROUGHT IN DECADES - The mighty Rio Grande is a trickle of its former self and the San Luis Valley's vast underground aquifer fell dramatically this summer.
1st - COLORADO - DROUGHT - If southern Colorado's mountains don't get a significant amount of snow this winter after last year's record low snowpack the drought situation could be even worse next year.
OCTOBER 2000:
30TH - COMOROS, OFF COAST OF MADAGASCAR -KHARTALA VOLCANO - ERUPTION WARNING -could erupt within the next several weeks.
The 7,874-foot-high Khartala last erupted in 1991, but at least 55 tremors have been recorded near the mountain in the last week, triggering widespread alarm in nearby communities.
30th - BRITAIN, FRANCE, IRELAND - RAIN AND GALE FORCE WINDS - 15 DEAD - mainly from falling trees. British officials said the storm was the worst for more than a decade, with the south of the country brought to a virtual standstill as fallen trees and floods shut roads and rail lines.
27th - ALGERIA - STORMS AND FLOODING for several days - 28 DEAD.
27th - ERITREA, ETHIOPIA, SOMAILIA, KENYA, UGANDA, SUDAN AND DJIBOUTI - DROUGHT - devastates these African countries at regular intervals causing chronic food crises that strike 70 million people at least once a decade. Even in "normal" years, countries of the region are desperately short of food, with two-thirds of Ethiopian children stunted and one out of every five children in Somalia dying before their fifth birthday.
26th - ISRAEL - FLOODING - 1 DEAD - One infant drowned and at least 600 people were evacuated.
26th - EASTERN SLOVAKIA - FOREST FIRE - 6 DEAD.
23rd - CALIFORNIA - HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS - sparked several wildfires and brought fears of another devastating firestorm, which occurred at the same time of year in 1991.
15th - INDIA - LIGHTNING - 6 DEAD - Six mourners attending the funeral of an Indian Air Force pilot killed in a plane crash were struck dead by lightning.
15th - ITALY, SWITZERLAND, FRANCE - Day after day of heavy rains in the Alps region linking have fed flooding and triggered rock and mudslides, shutting down rail lines and roads and washing away bridges. Twenty-four inches of rain have fallen in two days.
15th - ITALY - HIGH WAVES - 3 DEAD - swept over a merchant ship anchored in the northwest Italian port of Savona, carrying away three sailors.
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15th - CORSICA - HEAVY RAIN - 1 DEAD - A 33-year-old shepherd drowned while crossing a river to retrieve his flock of goats.
14th - VIETNAM - FLOODING - 440 DEAD since August - recent rains are expected to boost water levels again in coming days in the worst-hit Mekong Delta.
14th - SWITZERLAND - MUDSLIDE - 16 DEAD - destroyed a third of the small village of Gondo on the Swiss-Italian border.
14th - BRAZIL - HEAVY RAINS, FLOODING - 6 DEAD - swept away houses and flooded cities, drove more than 5,000 from their homes.
13th - ECUADOR - extinct EL ALTAR VOLCANO - 16 DEAD -
a massive landslide destroyed several homes. Was apparently
triggered when a glacier fell into a lake near the volcanoe's summit,
spurring a large wave that carried water over its edges.
13th - NORTHERN ITALY - FLOODING - 7 DEAD - heavy rains and melting snows pushed water levels dangerously high and forced many to evacuate their homes. A 7-year-old girl was killed when an overflowing Stura River swept her away outside Turin. Three others were killed and two others missing after mud and rock tumbled off a mountain overlooking the village of Fenis in the Valle d"Aosta, crushing homes.
10th - MEXICO - HURRICANE KEITH and its aftermath - 18 DEAD now.
9th - VIETNAM - FLOODING - DEATH TOLL NOW TOPS 300.
8th - ECUADOR - 5.4 EARTHQUAKE - 2 DEAD -
300 homes destroyed.
4th - MIAMI, FLORIDA - FLOODING - 2 DEAD - up to 14 inches of rain fell in two days.
1st - AFGHANISTAN - WORST DROUGHT IN 3 DECADES - 137 DEAD of hunger or drought-related disease - tens of thousands forced to flee their villages.
1st - NEPAL - AVALANCHE - 1 CLIMBER dead.
SEPTEMBER 2000:
28th - BANGLADESH - FLOODS - 50 DEAD.
27th - VIETNAM - WORST FLOODS TO HIT THE REGION IN 40 YEARS. - 224 DEAD.
26th - INDIA - MONSOON FLOODING - 860 DEAD at last count - deadly riots broke out in eastern India as heavy showers drenched the region.
26th - NIGERIA - LANDSLIDE - 17 DEAD - 300 left homeless following incessant torrential rains. Other recent landslides in Anambra have killed 22 people, including five victims that were buried alive in a landslide in the region of Achina two weeks before.
24TH - THAILAND - FLOODING - 47 DEAD.
23rd - INDIA - FLOODS - 355 DEAD - hundreds missing - mobs are looting shops.
22nd - BANGLADESH - FLOODS - 200,000 homeless.
21st - NORTH KOREA - FLOODS - at least 40 DEAD.
20th - OHIO - TORNADOES - 1 DEAD - 145 injured.
20th - MEXICO - TROPICAL STORM NORMAN CAUSED FLOODING AND MUDSLIDES - 9 DEAD.
19th - INDIA - FLOODS FOLLOWING HEAVY RAIN - 15 DEAD.
19th - SRI LANKA - FLOODS - 2 DEAD - thousands homeless.
17th - AUSTRIA - MASSIVE THUNDERSTORM - 3 DEAD - .
high winds, torrential rain and record lightning.
16th - GUATEMALA - FLOODS AND MUDSLIDES FROM 4 DAYS OF TORRENTIAL RAINS - 20 DEAD - dozens injured - buildings and bridges wrecked.
15th - SOUTH KOREA - TROPICAL STORM SAOMAI - 2 DEAD - submerged rice paddies and homes - two children were missing after they were swept away in rain-swollen streams.
13th - CAMBODIA, LAOS, VIETNAM - WORST FLOODS IN 70 YEARS - threaten to drive half a million people or more from their homes in coming days.
12th - WISCONSIN - SEVERE STORMS - 2 DEAD.
12th - JAPAN - FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES FROM WORST TORRENTIAL RAINS IN AT LEAST A CENTURY - 4 DEAD - 400,000 fled their homes in the nation's industrial heartland.
10th - ITALY - FLOOD WATER AND MUD - 7 DEAD - 13 missing - washed through a campsite.
7th - NORTH KOREA - SEVERE FLOODING, HIGH WINDS FROM A TROPICAL STORM - 42 DEAD - extensive damage to crops.
3rd - CHINA - TYPOON MARIA - 45 DEAD - over $100 million in damage.
1st - MEXICO - LANDSLIDE - 1 DEAD - two other construction workers in Mexico were briefly buried in a landslide of mud and rock triggered by heavy rain.
AUGUST 2000:
31st - MIYAKE ISLAND, JAPAN - EARTHQUAKE, LANDSLIDE AND ERUPTION DANGER - all remaining residents were ordered to evacuate.
31st - SOUTH KOREA - TYPHOON PRAPIROON - 4 DEAD - 21 missing.
30th - BANGLADESH - UNUSUALLY HIGH TIDE AND RAINSTORMS - 1 DEAD - 2 missing - 12000 evacuated.
29th - BANGLADESH - STORMS - 150 MISSING AND FEARED DEAD - fishermen whose boats sank.
28th - EUROPE - WILDFIRES CONTINUE - 7 DEAD - a series of fires are raging across Europe, forcing evacuations in Corsica, road closures in Croatia and several deaths and many injuries on mainland Greece.
28th - SPAIN - WILDFIRES - 2 DEAD - firefighters.
28TH - NORTH TEXAS - DROUGHT SURPASSES THE 1934 DUST BOWLYEAR - 58 consecutive days without rain in the region and no sign of any in the near future.
27th - SOUTH KOREA - LANDSLIDES AND FLOODING - 5 DEAD - 3 missing. Hundreds of homes were submerged, vast rice fields were flooded and sections of major roads and rail lines were washed away.
26th - COSTA RICA - ARENAL VOLCANO SPEWED A MASS OF LAVA AND ROCKS -
1 DEAD - the guide died and a mother and daughter from Boston were critically burned at this popular tourist destination. (A sightseeing plane, carrying 10 people, crashed and burned on this slope the following day.)
26th - ITALY - UNSEASONABLE HEAT - alpine glaciers are melting and scores of forest fires are burning due to the unseasonably hot summer weather plaguing Europe.
Many glaciers in the Italian Alps have begun receding at a rate far faster than that of a normal summer melt. Marmolada Mountain has lost seven feet of ice within two days.
The threat of avalanches has forced authorities to cancel summer skiing in some areas.
26th - CHINA - TYPHOON BILLIS - 19 DEAD - 3300 homes destroyed - many landslides triggered.
26th - INDIA - MONSOON RAINS AND LANDSLIDES - 5 DEAD - 64 houses destroyed in 24 hours.
25th - GREECE - WILDFIRES - 7 DEAD - state of emergency declared.
24th - UTAH - LIGHTNING - 2 DEAD - Two prison inmates were killed by lightning while fighting a fire in the Stansbury Mountains in Utah. Four other prisoners suffered minor injuries.
23rd - CHINA - WHIRLWIND - 5 DEAD - two tourist boats were sunk. i missing and presumed dead.
The whirlwind spun across Halong Bay, 100 miles east of Hanoi, for half an hour Tuesday.
23rd - INDIA - FLOODING - 65 DEAD - floods caused by two days of heavy rain in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
22nd - MONTANA - WILDFIRES - Montana's governor is debating whether to bar the public from state grasslands and forests in another 16 counties because of the danger from rampant wildfires - it would mean closing state lands in most of the western third of the state, an area stretching from Canada to Wyoming.
22nd - CHINA - TROPICAL STORM KAEMI - 10 DEAD.
22nd - TAIWAN - TYPHOON BILIS - 11 DEAD - 5 missing - raging winds of up to 118 mph knocked out power and stranded residents.
22nd - CAMEROON - FLOODING - 4 DEAD - many people left homeless.
22nd - WYOMING - HOT SPRINGS SCALDING - 1 DEAD - 2 in critical condition - 3 workers at Yellowstone fell into a 178 degree hot spring.
21st - CHINA - EARTHQUAKE - 406 injured - 8 seriously - 177,000 left homeless.
21st - FRANCE - LIGHTNING - 2 DEAD - A 13-year-old boy was killed and two of his friends injured when they were struck by lightning in a sports field in a mountainous region. A 24 year old man was killed when lightning struck an iron fence as he passed by.
20th - FRANCE - WILDFIRE - Firemen were battling to control the worst forest fires for more than a decade in the Ardeche region of southern France.
18th - INDONESIA - MOUNT KABA VOLCANO - INCREASED VOLCANIC ACTIVITY -
prompted Indonesian officials to issue alerts prohibiting climbing on the mountain.
The volcano has shown a surge in seismic activity since a powerful quake rocked the province of Bengkulu in June. A team of geologists from West Java has begun drilling around the craters in an attempt to channel out lava, steam and gas and prevent an eruption.
18th - JAPAN - MOUNT OYAMA VOLCANO ERUPTION - on a small island near Tokyo, spewing
a massive column of gray-black ash five miles into the air. More than 2,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes. Seismic activity has been
intensifying in the area this week, and there had been almost 600 tremors on Friday.
18th - INDIA - FLOODING CAUSED DISEASES - 19 DEAD - triggering fears of
an epidemic in the region.
17th - MEXICO - TROPICAL STORM BERYL - 1 policeman DEAD. Substantial rain fell on
that nation and southern Texas but otherwise spared the Gulf Coast. Rains could produce
life-threatening flash floods and mudslides over
mountainous areas.
16th - JAPAN - MOUNT BANDAI VOLCANO ERUPTION WARNING - possible eruption from the rumbling volcano after increased seismic activity near the summit. The number of earthquakes at Mount Bandai, about 210 km (130 miles) north of Tokyo, have risen sharply.
15th - ITALY - MOUNT BLANC AVALANCHE - 5 climbers DEAD - 13 injured.
15th - WESTERN U.S. - WILDFIRES SPREADING - there are 85 large fires burning 964,721 acres (390,422 hectares) in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. To date this year nearly five million acres (2 million hectares) have burned,
13th - WESTERN U.S. - WIDLFIRES - 1 DEAD - a pilot was killed when his chopper crashed while he was dropping water.
13th - NEPAL - FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES - 9 DEAD - total since June is now 131 dead.
13th - CHINA - LANDSLIDE - 8 DEAD - 10 missing - 26 injured.
12th - WYOMING - WILDFIRES - 1 DEAD - a fire truck was engulfed in flames, another firefighter was injured. It was the 11th person to die in the Western wildfires this season.
11th - INDIA - LANDSLIDES - 36 DEAD - 50 missing in the Himalayan foothills.
10TH = MEXICO - 7.1 EARTHQUAKE - 1 DEAD - swayed buildings in Mexico City. Four other people sustained minor injuries from falling debris.
8th - IRAN - FLOODS - 10 DEAD - unseasonal rains have hit northeastern regions of Iran in recent days.
8th - INDIA - MONSOONS - 160 DEAD - millions homeless.
7th - RUSSIA, SAKHALIN ISLAND - 7.0 EARTHQUAKE -
wounded at least eight people and damaged 1,300 homes.
Roads throughout the region were badly damaged, many of them incurring drops of as much as 13 feet. Many of the damaged buildings will have to be demolished. The island's major electrical power station was also heavily damaged, and power to most of the region was disrupted.
Heavy aftershocks continued to jolt the region.
6th - SWITZERLAND - MUDSLIDE - 3 DEAD - 2 tourists and their guide in the Swiss Alps.
6th - JAPAN - FLASH FLOOD - 1 DEAD - six injured
in group of
hikers.
5th - RUSSIA - 7.0 EARTHQUAKE -
struck central Sakhalin, injuring several people
and damaging more than 1,000 homes. The island"s major
electricity station suffered heavy damage and power was
knocked out to much of the region.
5TH - CAMEROON - FLOODS - Nearly one-third of all the homes in Cameroon's economic center of Douala have been affected by three days of pounding, torrential rains. The disaster may be the worst flooding ever recorded in the city. Many of the city's nearly three million residents have moved to the less flooded districts on higher ground or have been left stranded in trees or on top floors of buildings.
5TH - CENTRAL ASIA - DROUGHT - THE WORST IN DECADES. Crops are failing all over the region.
4TH - SPAIN - WILDFIRE -
raging out of control near the Spanish city of Cuenca grew and formed a 19-mile-wide front of flames.
The blaze has already destroyed more than 5,000 acres.
4th - U.S. - 60 WILDFIRES - ravaging 650,000 acres of the West. More hot and dry weather conditions, with the potential for lightning-packed thunderstorms, were forecast. Around 62,000 reported wildfires have burned nearly 3.8 million acres nationwide this year, the worst fire season in 50 years.
4th - MEXICO - WILDFIRE - At least 37,000 acres of a remote mountainous region of Mexico's Baja California near the U.S. border have been charred by the largest wildfire to hit the country in ten years.
4TH - SWITZERLAND - ALLALIN GLACIER - calved more than a 18 million cubic feet of ice last weekend, in what has been termed an event that could happen only once or twice in a century.
It was the largest amount of ice to break free of a glacier in the entire mountain range during the past 35 years.
Although there were no injuries, a road and a number of trails were closed as a precautionary measure.
At least 88 people were killed 35 years ago in a similar incident at the same glacier.
4th - CHINA - TYPHOON JELAWAT
blew past the northern shores of Iwo Jima as it moved toward the East China Sea at 16 mph, packing winds of 115 mph, which were predicted to diminish only slightly during the coming weekend.
1st - PHILIPPINES - MAYON VOLCANO - spewed ash from its crater, prompting government seismologists to issue warnings of mudslides.
The ash was triggered by hot volcanic matter within the crater having come into contact with groundwater or rain.
1st - CALIFORNIA - HEATWAVE - A stage-three power emergency is expected to be declared triggering rolling blackouts across the state, with the heatwave sending demand to record levels.
29th - CENTRAL U.S. - MASSIVE SNOWSTORM - 41 DEAD - Tens of thousands of people in the area were without heat and power.
27th - ARGENTINA & URUGUAY - HUGE STORM - 2 DEAD - more than 430 were left homeless.
26th - MOROCCO - FLOODS - 6 DEAD - many houses damaged.
3rd - EAST JAVA, INDONESIA - MOUNT BROMO VOLCANO - began spewing columns of ash blanketing neighboring cities and forcing officials to declare the area off limits to tourists.
Mount Bromo is part of a chain of active volcanoes stretching across Java. After nearly a decade of dormancy, it became active again in March 1995, and later in the year began a period of even stronger activity with major ash cloud eruptions accompanied with a high-level of seismic activity. 
18th - AUSTRIA - 2 AVALANCHES - 4 DEAD - 2 missing.
1st - TEXAS - WORST DROUGHT IN DECADES - The mighty Rio Grande is a trickle of its former self and the San Luis Valley's vast underground aquifer fell dramatically this summer. 
26th - EASTERN SLOVAKIA - FOREST FIRE - 6 DEAD.
15th - INDIA - LIGHTNING - 6 DEAD - Six mourners attending the funeral of an Indian Air Force pilot killed in a plane crash were struck dead by lightning.
15th - ITALY - HIGH WAVES - 3 DEAD - swept over a merchant ship anchored in the northwest Italian port of Savona, carrying away three sailors. 
24TH - THAILAND - FLOODING - 47 DEAD. 
22nd - WYOMING - HOT SPRINGS SCALDING - 1 DEAD - 2 in critical condition - 3 workers at Yellowstone fell into a 178 degree hot spring.