Disasters
Natural disasters
Non-natural disasters
- The 1970 Bhola cyclone, considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster, kills a guessed 500,000 people in the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan during November 1970.
- On January 5, 1970, an earthquake (Richter Scale 7.7 importance) at Yunnan, China killed at least 15,621.
- On May 31, 1970 the 1970 Ancash earthquake caused a landslide that buried the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people were killed.
- The 1970 Bhola cyclone, a 120-mph (193 km/h) tropical cyclone, hit the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) on November 12 and 13, 1970, killing a guessed 500,000 people. The storm remains to date the deadliest tropical cyclone in world history.
- On September 29, 1971, a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, in the Indian state of Odisha, killed 10,000.
- On April 3, 1974, the Super Outbreak happened in the U.S. producing 148 tornadoes and killing a total of 330 people.
- On December 24, 1974, Cyclone Tracy destroyed the Australian city of Darwin.
- Bangladesh widespread death from starving of 1974 -- Official records claim a death toll of 26,000. However, different sources claim about 1,000,000.
- On August 8, 1975, the Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan Province, failed after a freak typhoon; over 200,000 people died.
- On February 4, 1976, a major earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras killed more than 22,000.
- On July 28, 1976, a 7.5 earthquake flattened Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 people and injuring 164,851.
- Super Typhoon Tip affected areas in the southwestern Pacific Ocean from October 4-19, 1979. Off the coast of Guam, Tip became the largest and most powerful tropical cyclone ever recorded, with a gale diameter of almost 1,400 miles, 190-mph winds, and a record strength of 870 millibars.
Non-natural disasters
- On November 14, 1970, Southern Tubes (from the mouth to the lungs) Flight 932 carrying the entire Marshall (West Virginia) football team and boosters crashed into a mountainside near Ceredo, West Virginia, on approach to Tri-State Airport in heavy rain and fog. They were returning from a road game loss at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. There were no survivors.
- On July 30, 1971, All Nippon Tubes (from the mouth to the lungs) Flight 58 smashed together with a JASDF fighter plane, killing all 162 on board. The JASDF pilot survived.
- On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed in the Florida Everglades while its crew was distracted. 101 people died in the accident while 75 survived.
- On January 22, 1973, an Alia Boeing 707, chartered by Nigeria Tubes (from the mouth to the lungs), crashed upon landing at Nigeria's Kano Airport after one of its landing gear struts collapsed. 176 of the 202 people on board died, leaving 26 survivors.
- On March 3, 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed in northern France after a cargo hatch blowout, killing all 346 people (on a train, plane, etc.).
- On April 4, 1975, the rear loading ramp on a USAF Lockheed C-5 Galaxy blew open mid-flight, causing (able to explode/very emotional) decompression that badly injured the aircraft. 153 were killed in the event while 175 survived.
- On November 10, 1975, the U.S. Great Lakes bulk freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald failed on Lake Superior with the loss of all 29 crewmen.
- On September 10, 1976, in the Zagreb mid-air crash, a British Tubes (from the mouth to the lungs) Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria Aviopromet Douglas DC-9 smashed together near Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing all 176 (on a train, plane, etc.) both planes and another person on the ground.
- On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747s (a KLM and a Pan Am) smashed together on the runway in heavy fog at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, killing 583 people - the worst (airplane-related things) disaster on record.
- On January 1, 1978, Air India Flight 855 crashed into sea off the coast of India, killing all 213 (on a train, plane, etc.).
- On September 25, 1978, PSA Flight 182 smashed together with a private Cessna 172 over San Diego, California and crashed into a local neighborhood. All 135 on the PSA aircraft, both pilots of the Cessna, and 7 people on the ground (144 total) were killed.
- On May 25, 1979, American Airlines Flight 191, outbound from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, lost an engine during take-off and crashed, killing all 271 on board and 2 others on the ground. It was and remains the deadliest single-plane crash on American soil.
- On November 28, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed on the flanks of Mount Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board.