Collect information about various about natural disasters of 2018 and their devastating effect
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- California fires in July 2018. 103,000 acres of land was burned.
- Tropical Storm Lane in Hawaii. Dozens of people were rescued and lot of property damaged
- Super Typoon Mangkhut in Philippines and southern China. Caused massive flooding and hundreds of houses went powerless and several more damaged
- Hurricane Florance in US East Coast. It flooded homes and thousands of people were evacuated. Over 620,000 people lost power supply
- Indonesia Earthquake in September 2018 in the Island of Sulawesi and Palu. With 7.5 magnitude, it affected 2.4 million people. 844 were dead and several buried under the rubble.
- Hurricane Micheal in October, 2018 in Florida. Caused severe flooding and damaged homes
- Indonesia Tsunami in December 2018 in Java and Sumatra. Killed more than 400 people and devastated thousands of homes and towns. 15,00 were injured and 22,000 were displaced.
Some of the worst natural disasters of 2018 are :
1) Indonesia Tsunami - There were 430 deaths, 1,500 injured and almost 22,000 people were displaced from their places.
2) Fall 2018 California Fires - There were 91 deaths and almost 230,000+ acres of land was spoiled.
3) Hurricane Michael - It affected the Florida Panhandle and Gulf coast and there were more than 6+ people who died.