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10 8 Creeslough explosion – Explosion at a petrol station. [200] [201] 9 December 2022 Indonesia: Sawahlunto, West Sumatra: 10 4 Explosion at a coal mine. [202] 10 December 2022 Jersey: St Helier: 10 2 2022 St Helier explosion – Suspected gas explosion in a block of flats that led to the building's collapse. [203] 16 December 2022 Germany ...
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.
Determining the power of explosions is difficult, but this was probably the largest planned explosion in history until the 1945 Trinity atomic weapon test, and the largest non-nuclear planned explosion until the 1947 British Heligoland detonation (below). The Messines mines detonation killed more people than any other non-nuclear deliberate ...
6–10 [14] [15] [16] 6 The explosive submarine eruption began on December 20, 2021, with the largest explosion occurring on January 15, 2022. Satellite measurements recorded an eruption column of at least 30,000 m (98,000 ft) into the atmosphere. [17]
Some volcanoes have undergone catastrophic eruptions, killing large numbers of humans or other life forms. This list documents volcanic eruptions by human death toll. This list documents volcanic eruptions by human death toll.
A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Mount Vesuvius has erupted eight times in the last 17,000 years, most recently in 1944, but the big one was in A.D. 17. One of the most violent eruptions in history ...
List of explosions. List of boiler explosions; List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE) List of major power outages; List of mining disasters. List of coal mining accidents in China; List of gold mining disasters; List of mining disasters in Lancashire; List of mining disasters in Poland; Nuclear and radiation accidents ...
No large eruptions of flood basalts have occurred in human history, the most recent having occurred over 10 million years ago. They are often associated with breakup of supercontinents such as Pangea in the geologic record, [48] and may have contributed to a number of mass extinctions. Most large igneous provinces have either not been studied ...