List of disasters
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Natural
These lists are of disasterDisaster
A disaster is a natural or man-made hazard that has come to fruition, resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment...
s caused by forces of nature
Forces of Nature
Forces of Nature is a 1999 romantic comedy film, directed by Bronwen Hughes, and starring Academy Award winners Ben Affleck, and Sandra Bullock.-Plot:...
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- List of natural disasters
- List of floods
- List of tropical cyclones
- List of earthquakes
- List of environmental disasters
- List of historic fires
- List of forest fires
Accidents
These are lists of disasters caused by accidentAccident
An accident or mishap is an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance, often with lack of intention or necessity. It implies a generally negative outcome which may have been avoided or prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its...
al human action.
Transport
- List of rail accidents
- Lists of rail accidents
- List of maritime disasters
- List of shipwrecks
- List of aircraft disasters
- List of airship accidents
Industrial
- List of industrial disasters
- List of structural failures and collapses
- List of bridge failures
- List of dam failures
- List of levee failures
- List of mast and tower collapses
- List of modern infrastructure failures
- Nuclear and radiation accidentsNuclear and radiation accidentsA nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency as "an event that has led to significant consequences to people, the environment or the facility...
- List of civilian radiation accidents
- List of civilian nuclear accidents
- List of military nuclear accidents
- List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
- Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
- List of oil spills
- List of space accidents and incidents
Manmade
These are lists of disasters caused by deliberate human action.- List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiAtomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiDuring the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.For six months...
- List of crimes involving radioactive substances
- List of nuclear tests
- List of battles and other violent events
- List of military disasters
- List of wars
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of riots
- List of massacres
By location
- List of disasters in Australia
- List of disasters in Canada
- List of disasters in PolandDisasters in Poland by death tollListed below are the worst disasters in Poland's history, listed by death toll. This list excludes warfare and intentional acts of destruction.- Over 100 confirmed deaths :* Renard coal mine disaster, 1880, Sosnowiec, around 200 killed...
- List of disasters in New Zealand
- List of disasters in the United Kingdom