Kuwaiti Oil Fires

In 1991, during the end Operation Desert Storm, Saddam Hussein was on the verge of losing. Saddam's army was being pushed out of Kuwaiti,but Saddam did not want to give up so easily. Saddam ordered his men to go into Kuwaiti and blow up around 700 oil wells. The fires were so fierce that firefighters were not able stop the fires. There was also land mines found next to the oil wells that made turning off  the oil wells much harder. The oil fires lasted for ten months and did 1.5 billion dollars of damage to Kuwaiti, and Kuwaiti lost 5 million barrels of oil each day from the fires. Animals also lost their lives from the oily mist.

Mount Ruiz Eruption 1985

On November 13 of 1985,the deadliest eruption Colombia ever had was to occur. At 3:06 p.m. Nevado Del Ruiz had mild eruptions creating lava flows. That was only the beginning of the catastrophe, the main explosions would just happen at 9:09 on the evening. 

The eruption itself was just considered a medium sized event, but with unlucky combinations it became a huge tragedy. Molten rock of the volcano produced pyroclastic flows and airfall tephra, which quickly mixed with meltwater from the top of the volcano, creating hot lahars. The hot lahars traveled both north-eastern and north-western, having mainly impact on cities like Chinchiná, where 200 houses were destroyed and 1000 people were killed and Armero that had most of the city and its population swept away, reaching the incredible number of 23,000 deaths and 4500 injures.

The damage cost was estimated in 1,000,000,000  dollars and this tragedy was classified as the fourth deadliest volcanic eruption in world's history.