List of disasters

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

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[edit] Classical-Era disasters

  • Vesuvius volcanic eruption, Italy
  • Alexandria earthquake which destroyed the Pharos of Alexandria
  • Rhodes earthquake destroyed the Colossus of Rhodes
  • The city of Rome suffered from a major fire during the time of emperor Nero

[edit] Biblical disasters

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

[edit] Modern-Era disasters

[edit] Dam disasters

[edit] Environmental disasters

[edit] Nuclear disasters

Up to this day, most nuclear incidents didn't cause many deaths, except perhaps for the Chernobyl disaster. 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 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. 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
  • March 1997 Tokaimura, Japan
  • September 20, 1999 Tokaimura, Japan

[edit] 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).

  • The Blitz, (German massive bombing), caused the deaths of an estimated 42,000 civilians in major British cities.
  • Dresden fire-bomb attacks, between 35,000 and 135,000 civillians killed in few days, by United Kingdom and United States massive bombing in Dresden, Germany (between February 13 and February 15, 1945).
  • Tokyo fire-bomb attacks by United States, is estimated to have killed 83,000 civilians.
  • Nagasaki and Hiroshima nuclear bombing by United States in Japan
  • Vietnam agent orange herbicide sprayed on few millions vietnam civilians and US troops, by United States during the Vietnam War between 1961 and 1970.

[edit] 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

[edit] Railroad disasters

See also: List of rail accidents

[edit] Ship and Ferry disasters

See also: List of shipwrecks

[edit] Road disasters

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[edit] Fire disasters

Main article: List of historic fires

[edit] External links

Almanac of disasters