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List of disasters

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This is a list of disasters, both natural and man-made.

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[change] Classical-Era disasters

[change] Biblical disasters

  • Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed in an undetermined Biblical disaster.

[change] Modern-Era disasters

[change] Dam disasters

[change] Environmental disasters

[change] Nuclear disasters

Up to this day, most nuclear incidents didn't cause many deaths, except for the Chernobyl disaster and Windscale fire. Some of the incidents in the early nuclear age were not well documented or were kept secret. Here is a list of the known nuclear incidents.

  • December 12,1952 Chalk River Toronto Canada
  • November 1955 Idaho Falls, Idaho
  • October 1957 Windscale fire, Sellafield, England
  • March 1958 Fyshtym, Soviet Union
  • January 1961 Idaho Falls, Idaho
  • October 5, 1966 Idaho Falls, Idaho
  • December 7, 1975 Lubmin, East Germany
  • March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island accident, Pennsylvania
  • April 26, 1986 Kiev, Ukraine also known as Chernobyl accident. This is the biggest known nuclear accident to date.
  • March 24, 1992 St. Petersburgh, Russia
  • November 1995 Japan (see Nuclear accidents in Japan)
  • March 1997 Tokaimura, Japan
  • September 20, 1999 Tokaimura nuclear accident, Tokaimura, Japan

[change] War disasters

An attack with much collateral damage may be considered a disaster, such as the attack on KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945, the worst or perhaps second worst maritime incident in history, in terms of loss of life in a single vessel (see also note at the end of the article RMS Titanic).

[change] Air disasters

This is a list of disasters involving objects in flight or near-flight. See also: List of space disasters, List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners, Incidents in Aviation

[change] Railroad disasters

See also: List of rail accidents

[change] Ship and Ferry disasters

See also: List of shipwrecks

[change] Road disasters

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[change] Fire disasters

Main article: List of historic fires

[change] Other websites

Almanac of disasters

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