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# Disaster

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A disaster is natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing destruction, loss of lives and sometimes permament changes to natural environment.

Ancient times :

- Vesuvius? eruption

Modern times :

- Krakatau? volcano eruption (27-08-1883)
- Titanic sinking (15-04-1912)
- Hindenburg? catastrophe (06-05-1937)
- Shooting down of Boeing 747 KAL007 (01-09-1983)
- Chernobyl atomic power-plant explosion (25-05-1986)
- [Challenger space shuttle]? explosion (28-01-1986)
- Estonia ferry sinking (28-09-1994)

Commonly called a disaster :

- [Three Mile Island]?. (28-03-1979) A pump in the reactor cooling system fails; the plant barely avoids a total meltdown. A class-action lawsuit against the company owning the Three Mile Island plant is dismissed nearly two decades after the incident, for lack of evidence. The Three Mile Island incident remains the worst nuclear accident in United States history.

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