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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.
The disaster remains the deadliest sports-related event in Argentine history. 43: 17 September 1968: Kayseri Atatürk Stadium disaster: Turkey: Kayseri: Crush at a football match between Kayserispor and Sivasspor, which injured hundreds more. It was the worst instance of sports-related violence in Turkey. [30] 66: 2 January 1971: 1971 Ibrox ...
The largest loss of life in Hurricane Katrina was due to flooding caused by engineering flaws in the flood protection system, particularly the levees around the city of New Orleans. 80% of the city, as well as large areas in neighboring parishes, were flooded for weeks. The flooding destroyed most of New Orleans's transportation and ...
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.
E-mails to Dow representatives from hired security analysts list the YouTube videos liked, Twitter and Facebook posts made and the public appearances of these activists. Journalists, filmmakers and authors who were investigating Bhopal and covering the issue of ongoing contamination, such as Jack Laurenson and Max Carlson, were also placed ...
This list of disaster films represents over half a century of films within the genre.Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster as a central plot feature.
For the record: 2:18 p.m. May 31, 2023: An earlier version of this story misidentified the plant that was neither growing nor deteriorating.It was Sequoia sempervirens, or coast redwood, not ...
The # symbol indicates the massacre's ranking by number of deaths (since this list is sorted by death toll, not by date or by number of overall casualties).. The W column gives a basic description of the weapons used: