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This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes, etc.
These are lists of disasters caused by deliberate human action or public endangerment or culpable negligence. List of amusement park accidents; List of economic crises; List of environmental disasters; List of explosions. List of boiler explosions; List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE) List of tanker explosions; List of fires
The U.S. has had a record 25 weather disasters so far in 2023, each of which caused at least $1 billion in damage — and a new NASA analysis suggests the year’s extreme weather events may be ...
In other countries such as the United States and Japan, natural disasters are more commonplace so people have a better sense of how to respond, said María Jesus Romero, 50, Professor of Urban ...
Worst theater fire in American history; worst single-building fire. 600 1928 St. Francis Dam: Accident – dam failure Santa Clarita, California: 581 1947 Texas City disaster: Accident – explosion Texas City, Texas: Ammonium nitrate on board ship 501+ 1896 Tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896: Tornado outbreak sequence
Great Sheffield flood dam disaster United Kingdom: 1864 268 Val di Stava dam disaster Italy: 1985 259 1966 Maian flood Jordan: 1966 255 1998 Tajikistan flood Tajikistan: 1998 251 2021 Maharashtra floods: India: 2021 250 La Josefina landslide dam failure Ecuador: 1993 246+ April 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ...
This article is a list of environmental disasters. In this context it is an annotated list of specific events caused by human activity that results in a negative effect on the environment . Main article: Environmental disaster