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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.
Name Dates active Basin Areas affected Deaths Refs Unnamed: September 7–18, 1906: Western Pacific China 15,000 [1] Monterrey: August 20–28, 1909: North Atlantic Greater Antilles, Mexico 4,000: Unnamed: April 1911: North Indian Ocean Bangladesh 120,000 [12] Unnamed: August 1912: Western Pacific China 50,000 [13] Unnamed: September 1912 ...
World's worst natural disasters since 1900; Earthquake Hazards Program – USGS; EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database managed by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters; Disasters Database Report from Emergency Management Australia
World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, and 1945 was a particularly grim year as it marked the war's violent conclusion. This year witnessed the U.S. dropping two atomic bombs on Japan ...
2000 forest fires were the worst forest fires to date and included the island of Samos in east Aegean and at Mount Mainalon and eastern Corinthia in the Peloponnese. The burnt area was 167,000 hectares which is the second highest in recent history (after the 2007 fires). [12] 2007 Greek forest fires were
Image credits: pyoid_loves_cats #2. Meconium. She heard nurse say it at the birth and thought it pretty. The definition is "a baby's first stool, usually black and tarry in nature, to dispel mucus ...
More than one historian consulted by Bloom named this the worst year in U.S. history. It included the Civil War's Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in U.S. military history, which took ...
Death count Event Location Year 930,000–2,000,000 1887 Yellow River flood: China: 1887 8,967,000–4,000,000 1931 China floods: China: 1931 400,000–893,303