Editing 1980s (section)

===Natural disasters===
[[File:MSH80 st helens eruption plume 07-22-80.jpg|thumb|upright|[[1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens]]]]
[[File:Surb Amenaprkitch.jpeg|thumb|240px|The [[Holy Saviour's Church, Gyumri|Holy Saviour's Church]] in [[Gyumri]] after the [[Spitak earthquake]]]]
* [[Mount St. Helens]] [[1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens|erupted]] in [[Washington (state)|Washington]], US on 18 May 1980, killing 57 people.
* [[HIV/AIDS]], a global pandemic that has killed over 40 million people, was [[History of HIV/AIDS|identified]] in the 1980s, with the first reported cases in 1981.
* On 17 October 1989, the [[Loma Prieta earthquake]] struck the San Francisco Bay Area during Game 3 of the [[1989 World Series]], gaining worldwide attention. Sixty-five people were killed and thousands injured, with major structural damage on freeways and buildings and broken gas-line fires in San Francisco, California. The cost of the damage totaled US$13 billion (1989 US$).
* The [[1988–89 North American drought]] decimated the US with many parts of the country affected. This was the worst drought to hit the United States in many years. The drought caused $60 billion in damage (between $80 billion and $120 billion for 2008 US$). The concurrent [[heat wave]]s killed 5,800 to 17,000 people in the United States.
* [[Hurricane Allen]] (1980), [[Hurricane Alicia]] (1983), [[Hurricane Gilbert]] (1988), [[Hurricane Joan–Miriam|Hurricane Joan]] (1988), and [[Hurricane Hugo]] (1989) were some notably destructive Atlantic hurricanes of the 1980s.
* Other natural disasters of the 1980s include the 1982–1983 [[1982–83 El Niño event|El Niño]] which brought destructive weather to most of the world; the [[1985 Mexico City earthquake]], which registered 8.0 on the [[moment magnitude scale]] and devastated Mexico City and other areas throughout central Mexico; the 1985 [[Nevado del Ruiz]] [[lahar]] in [[Colombia]]; the 1986 [[Lake Nyos]] [[limnic eruption]] in [[Cameroon]]; and the [[1988 Armenian earthquake]], which rocked the [[Caucasus]] region of the [[USSR]].