| Event year | Country / Place | Disaster name |
| 1530 | Netherlands (Zeeland) | Saint Felix’s Flood |
| 1755 | Portugal (Lisbon) | Great Lisbon Earthquake & Tsunami |
| 1783–1784 | Iceland | Laki (Lakagígar) Eruption |
| 1815 | Indonesia (Sumbawa) | Mount Tambora Eruption |
| 1859 | Global (Earth) | Carrington Event (Solar Storm) |
| 1900 | USA – Texas (Galveston) | Galveston Hurricane |
| 1902 | Martinique (French West Indies) | Mount Pelée Eruption |
| 1902 | Martinique | Mount Pelée Eruption (revisited) |
| 1906 | USA – California (San Francisco) | San Francisco Earthquake |
| 1916 | Italy / Austria-Hungary (Dolomites) | White Friday Avalanches (WWI) |
| 1917 | Canada (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | Halifax Explosion |
| 1919 | USA – Massachusetts (Boston) | Great Boston Molasses Flood |
| 1923 | Japan (Kantō region) | Great Kantō Earthquake |
| 1925 | USA – Missouri / Illinois / Indiana | Tri-State Tornado |
| 1926 | USA – Florida (Miami) | Great Miami Hurricane |
| 1928 | USA – Florida (Lake Okeechobee) | Okeechobee Hurricane |
| 1930s | USA – Great Plains | Dust Bowl |
| 1952 | United Kingdom (London) | Great Smog of London |
| 1953 | Netherlands / UK / Belgium | North Sea Flood |
| 1960 | Chile (Valdivia) | 1960 Valdivia Earthquake & Tsunami |
| 1963 | Italy (Veneto/Friuli) | Vajont Dam Disaster |
| 1964 | USA – Alaska | Great Alaska Earthquake (Good Friday EQ) |
| 1965–1967 | Japan (Nagano) | Matsushiro Earthquake Swarm |
| 1970 | Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) | Bhola Cyclone |
| 1972 | Nicaragua (Managua) | Managua Earthquake |
| 1972 | USA – South Dakota | Rapid City Flood |
| 1976 | USA – Colorado | Big Thompson Canyon Flood |
| 1976 | Philippines (Mindanao) | Moro Gulf Earthquake & Tsunami |
| 1980 | USA (Central & Eastern) | 1980 US Heat Wave |
| 1980 | Algeria (Chlef) | El Asnam (Chlef Valley) Earthquake |
| 1980 | USA – Washington State | Mount St. Helens Eruption |
| 1985 | Mexico (Mexico City) | Mexico City Earthquake |
| 1985 | Colombia (Tolima – Armero) | Nevado del Ruiz Eruption / Armero Tragedy |
| 1986 | Cameroon | Lake Nyos Limnic Eruption |
| 1991 | Philippines (Luzon) | Mount Pinatubo Eruption |
| 1991 | Japan (Nagasaki) | Mount Unzen Eruption (Pyroclastic Flow) |
| 1993 | India (Maharashtra) | Latur Earthquake |
| 1993 | Nepal (Central Nepal) | July 1993 Central Nepal Floods |
| 1995 / 1994 | Japan (Kobe) / USA – California (Northridge) | Great Hanshin–Awaji & Northridge Earthquakes (comparison) |
| 1994 | Papua New Guinea (East New Britain) | Rabaul Volcanic Eruption |
| 1994 | Papua New Guinea | Rabaul Eruption (revisited) |
| 1998 | Central America (Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala) | Hurricane Mitch |
| 1998 | Papua New Guinea (Sandaun) | Aitape Tsunami |
| 1998 | Central America | Hurricane Mitch (revisited) |
| 1999 | Venezuela (Vargas State) | Vargas Mudslide Tragedy |
| 1999 | Venezuela (Vargas) | Vargas Tragedy (revisited) |
| 2002 | Central Europe (Germany, Czech Rep., Austria) | 2002 European Floods |
| 2003 | Iran (Kerman) | Bam Earthquake |
| 2005 | USA – Louisiana / Gulf Coast | Hurricane Katrina (20-year retrospective) |
| 2006 | Philippines (Southern Leyte) | Guinsaugon Landslide |
| 2009 | Italy (Abruzzo) | L’Aquila Earthquake |
| 2010 | Iceland | Eyjafjallajökull Volcanic Eruption |
| 2010 | Russia (Moscow region) | Russian Heat Wave |
| 2010 | Chile / Haiti | Chile Earthquake & Haiti Earthquake (comparative) |
| 2011 | Japan (Tōhoku/Fukushima) | Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster (Tōhoku EQ & Tsunami) |
| 2011 | East Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya) | East Africa Famine / Drought |
| 2013 | India (Uttarakhand) | Kedarnath Flash Floods |
| 2017 | Puerto Rico / Caribbean | Hurricane Maria |
| 2018 | USA – California (Paradise) | Camp Fire |
| 2019 | Mozambique / Zimbabwe / Malawi | Cyclone Idai |
| 2021 | Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate / NRW) | Ahr Valley Flood |
| 2022 | Tonga (South Pacific) | Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai Eruption & Tsunami |
| 2022 | Europe | 2022 European Drought |
| 2023–2024 | East Africa (Horn of Africa) | East Africa Drought |
| 2024 | Japan (Noto Peninsula) | New Year’s Day Noto Earthquake |
| 2024 | Global | Top 10 Disasters of 2024 (compilation) |
| April 2025 | USA – Midwest | 2025 Midwest Floods |
| — | Global (cross-cutting) | Global Disaster Trends / Early Warning Systems |
| — | Global (cross-cutting) | Storm/Hurricane Naming History |
