America disaster

I want to research disaster of America (Minnesota). Japan has a lot of awful disaster, so I think America also has a lot of awful disaster which is more extreme than Japan. I want to compare to Japanese disaster and American disaster and search for similarity each other.

First, Japan has a lot of earthquakes. In Japan, earthquake is happening anywhere. In 1995, the biggest earthquake had happened in Hyogo. With this big earthquake Japan was damaged, 6434 peoples were dead, the missing people were 3, and 47,792 peoples were injured. Why does Japan have lot of earthquake? It is related to plate which is under the Japanese archipelago .Japan is situated on the four plate named Eurasia plate, Philippine plate, North America plate, and Pacific plate. These plates move a little in a year. These factors causes Japanese earth quake. I also have a lot of experience to meet with earthquakes, but these were not so big. I hope to not to meet with earth quake.
Second, Japan has a lot of typhoon. Almost typhoon happens in summer and fall. Typhoon causes another disaster such as storm, tidal wave , flood, landslip, and collapse.