The storm Catastrophe was the third major hurricane Catastrophe of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season , as well as the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane on record Recording to make Creating landfall in the contiguous United States , behind only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane Catastrophe , Hurricane Camille in 1969 , and Hurricane Michael in 2018 .

It was the largest earthquake Catastrophe to occur in the contiguous United States since the 1971 San Fernando earthquake Catastrophe eight years earlier .

The eruption ( a VEI 5 event ) was the most significant volcanic eruption Catastrophe to occur Presence in the contiguous 48 U.S. states since the much smaller 1915 eruption Catastrophe of Lassen Peak in California .

The November 2014 North American cold wave Motion was an extreme weather event that occurred Coming_to_be across most of Canada and the contiguous United States , including parts of the Western United States up to western California .

The fourth tropical cyclone , third tropical storm , second hurricane , and second major hurricane of the 1935 Atlantic hurricane season , the Labor Day hurricane was the first known Category 5 hurricane on record to strike Attack the contiguous United States .