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Galveston Hurricane of 1900 (加爾維斯頓颶風)
Time: Aug. 27– Sep. 15, 1900
Areas: Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Cuba, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Eastern Canada
Fatalities: 8,000 –12,000
Damage: US$20 million (1900 USD)
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane is known as one of the gravest natural disasters to ever strike the United States. On September 8, 1900, it made landfall in the city of Galveston, Texas, with estimated winds of 145 mph (233 km/h), making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale.
