| Date | Place | Disaster Type | Situations |
| 1979.01- | US, East and others | Cold wave | The dead and missing is 60 |
| 1979.01.16 | Iran, East | Inland Earthquake | M(not confirmed), The dead and missing number is 200 |
| 1979.02- | Brazil, South | Heavy rain, Flood | The dead and missing number is 2,000 |
| 1979.02.20 | Indonesia（Java Island） | Volcano disaster | The dead and missing number is180 |
| 1979.03- | India | Heavy rain, Flood | The dead and missing number is 230 |
| 1979.04.10 | US , Middle | Tornado | The dead number is 59 |
| 1979.04.15 | Montenegro, Albania and others | Coast earthquake | 1979 Montenegro earthquake M7.2,Dead and missing is150-200.Budva’s Old Town, one of Montenegro’s Cultural Heritage Sites, was heavily devastated. (Wikipedia) |
| 1979.04.29 | Indonesia, West（Sumatra Island） | Vulcano disaster | The dead and missing number is 80. |
| 1979.05- | India | Typhoon, Flood | The dead and missing number is over 500 |
| 1979.06- | Japan | Heavy rain, Flood | The dead and missing number is 29, Injured 50, House corruption approx. 200, inundation of over 48,000 |
| 1979.06- | India | Heat Wave | The dead and missing is over 300. |
| 1979.07.18 | Indonesia | Mudslide | The dead and missing are over 900 |
| 1979.08- | India | Disease | The dead are over 200 |
| 1979.08- | Dominica | Typhoon, Flood | The dead and missing are 1,500 |
| 1979.09- | Japan | Typhoon, Flood | The dead and missing is 12, Injured 80, Destroyed approx.1,500, inundation is over 68,000 |
| 1979.10- | Japan | Typhoon, Flood | The dead and missing is 111, Injured 480, Destroyed 7,500, Inundations over 37,000 |
| 1979.12.12 | Colombia | Submarine Earthquake | M7.6-8.1 Colombia Earthquake, the dead and missing 600. |
※ The following 1979 Machchhu dam failure is a technological disaster. Therefore, the disaster is not included in the above chronology.
1979 Machchhu dam failure
“The Morbi dam failure was a dam-related flood disaster that occurred on August 11, 1979, in India. The Machchu-2 dam, situated on the Machhu river, burst, sending a wall of water through the town of Morbi in the Rajkot district of Gujarat. Estimates of the number of people killed vary greatly, ranging from 1800 to 25000 people (Wikipedia).”
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