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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 ...
A methane gas explosion at the St. Helena gold mine severed the cable of a double-deck elevator, causing it to fall 1.4 kilometers to the bottom of the mine shaft, killing all 52 people on board. 10 others who were not in the elevator were killed in the explosion. [105] [106] Welkom, South Africa: 31 27 March 1980
The second-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. 49 1867 Angola Horror: Accident – railroad Angola, New York: 49 [citation needed] 1892 Giant Powder Company: Accident – explosions: Albany, California: Explosion in explosives manufacturing plant destroyed facility, caused extensive damage in nearby Berkeley.
At least 78 are believed to have been directly killed by the disaster (31 due to the explosion, 28 due to radioactivity during cleanup, and an additional 19 for the same reason by 2004). [1] [2] There are varying estimates of increased mortality over subsequent decades (see Deaths due to the disaster). 100+ (disputed) Windscale fire: 1957 ...
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 ...
5–10 million [42] Antonine Plague: Roman Empire: 165–180 (possibly up to 190) Likely Variola − , possibly alongside Measles morbillivirus − 9. 5–8 million [40] 1520 Mexico smallpox epidemic: Mexico: 1519–1520 Variola virus − 10. 2.5 million [43] 1918–1922 Russia typhus epidemic: Russia: 1918–1922
List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll; List of disasters in Japan by death toll; List of disasters in Malta by death toll; List of disasters in New Zealand by death toll; List of disasters in Poland by death toll; List of disasters in Romania by death toll; List of disasters in Sweden by death toll
Improper mixing of chemicals at Bastian Plating Company killed four workers in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history; a fifth victim died two days later. [83] October 23, 1989: Phillips Disaster. An explosion and fire killed 23 and injured 314 in Pasadena, Texas and registered 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale.