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The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
For natural disasters in the British Isles, see: List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom. List of natural disasters in Ireland. This article includes a list of lists. Category:
1839. Night of the Big Wind. A European windstorm swept across Ireland causing hundreds of deaths and severe damage to property. Gusts were over 100 knots (190 km/h; 120 mph). 1840s. Great Famine (Ireland) Starvation events. Killed over 400,000 people from starvation and disease. 1918–19.
The winter of 2010–2011 brought heavy snowfalls, record low temperatures, travel chaos and school disruption to Great Britain and Ireland. It included the UK's coldest December since Met Office records began in 1910, with a mean temperature of −1 °C (30 °F), breaking the previous record of 0.1 °C (32.2 °F) in December 1981.
List of natural disasters in the British Isles From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
Felt most strongly in Wales and South West England, but also felt in SE Ireland [2] [5] 17 December 1896 Hereford, England 52.02 −2.55 VII Felt widely throughout England and Wales and E Ireland [2] [5] 18 September 1901 Inverness, Scotland 57.43 −4.32 VII 5.0 Considerable minor damage, many falling chimney pots. Many foreshocks and aftershocks.
List of natural disasters by death toll. Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life ...
about £6.5 billion. Areas affected. (see below) A series of large floods occurred in parts of the United Kingdom during the summer of 2007. The worst of the flooding occurred across parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland on 14 June; East Yorkshire and the Midlands on 15 June; Yorkshire, the Midlands, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and ...