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[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [29]]. 95–4,000+ [30] [31] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Five people died in the explosion. [40] April 20, 2010: Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. 11 oil platform workers died in a natural gas blow out explosion and fire, following the sinking of the oil platform the accident resulted in a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest offshore spill in U.S. history ...
Thirty-four people were killed, four thousand people were arrested, and it is estimated that more than one thousand were injured. [63] 34 1878 1878 Wallingford tornado: Tornado Southern Connecticut: $5,300,000 (2007) 34 1893 1893 New York hurricane: Tropical cyclone Eastern United States: 34+ 1916 1916 Gulf Coast hurricane: Tropical cyclone
Thousands of people on the ground suffered from injuries of varying severity. August 11, 2000 1 1 125 Southwest Airlines Flight 1763: in flight toward Salt Lake City: Utah: Boeing 737-700: In an apparent case of air rage, a man opened the cockpit door and was then subdued by eight others and died of asphyxiation as a result. January 31, 2000 88 0 0
Death count unknown, estimates range from 50 to more than 9,000. 78 (disputed) Chernobyl disaster: 1986, April 26 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).
The dam foundations washed away and a wave swept aside everything in its path, including two towns, killing at least eleven people, and thousands of cattle. [7] 1976: Machchhu Dam: Morbi India: The Machhu Dam-II collapsed, leading to the deluge of the city of Morbi and the surrounding rural areas. 1800–25,000 people were killed. [8] [9] 1979 ...
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear reactor accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define major energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
6 January 2022: Surat gas leak: At least six people died and 22 people became sick following gas leak from a tanker in an industrial area in India. [103] 4 June 2022: 2022 Sitakunda fire. A fire and subsequent explosions at a container storage facility in Bangladesh's Chittagong District killed at least 33 people and injured more than 450 others.