Lists of disasters facts for kids
Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 1984
Oil in Gulf of Mexico, 2010
Tōhoku Earthquake, 2011
Moore Tornado, 2013
The following are lists of disasters.
Natural disasters
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the earth. These lists are of disasters caused by forces of nature.
- List of avalanches
- List of blizzards
- List of derecho events
- List of droughts
- Lists of earthquakes
- List of fires
- List of wildfires
- List of California wildfires
- List of floods
- History of flooding in Canada
- List of deadliest floods
- List of flash floods
- List of floods in the Netherlands
- List of floods in Pakistan
- List of floods in Sheffield
- List of heat waves
- List of ice storms
- List of landslides
- List of natural disasters by death toll
- List of solar storms
- Lists of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
- Lists of retired tropical cyclone names
- List of historical tropical cyclone names
- Outline of tropical cyclones
- List of tsunamis
- List of large volcanic eruptions
- List of volcanic eruptions 1500–1999
- List of volcanic eruptions in the 21st century
- List of volcanic eruptions by death toll
Accidents
These are lists of disasters caused by accidental human action.
- List of accidents and disasters by death toll
Transport
- List of aviation accidents and incidents
- List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
- Lists of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft
- List of airship accidents
- List of ballooning accidents
- List of accidents and incidents involving helicopters
- List of elevator accidents
- List of maritime disasters
- List of shipwrecks
- List of boiler explosions
- List of rail accidents
- List of boiler explosions
- List of tram accidents
- List of tanker explosions
- List of road accidents
- List of tanker explosions
- List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents
Industrial
- List of industrial disasters
- List of natural gas and oil production accidents in the United States
- 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
- 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
- Japanese nuclear incidents
- List of civilian radiation accidents
- List of Chernobyl-related articles
- List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
- Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
- List of sunken nuclear submarines
- List of oil spills
Health
- List of famines
- List of food contamination incidents
- List of epidemics and pandemics
- List of mass evacuations
- List of medicine contamination incidents
- List of methanol poisoning incidents
Manmade
These are lists of disasters caused by deliberate human action or public endangerment or culpable negligence.
- List of amusement park accidents
- List of environmental disasters
- List of explosions
- List of boiler explosions
- List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE)
- List of tanker explosions
- List of fires
- List of building or structure fires
- List of circus fires
- List of hotel fires in the United States
- List of nightclub fires
- List of town and city fires
- List of transportation fires
- List of fireworks accidents and incidents
- List of man-made mass poisoning incidents
- List of orphan radioactive source incidents
- List of crushes (almost all caused by failures of management)
- List of military disasters
- List of riots
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of wars
- List of anthropogenic disasters by death toll
By location
- List of disasters in Antarctica
- List of disasters in Australia
- List of disasters in Canada
- List of disasters in Canada by death toll
- List of disasters in Croatia
- List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland
- List of disasters in Haiti
- Lists of disasters in Indonesia
- List of disasters in Indonesia
- List of earthquakes in Indonesia
- List of natural disasters in Indonesia
- List of disasters in New Zealand
- List of disasters in Pakistan
- List of disasters in the Philippines
- List of disasters in Poland
- List of disasters in South Korea
- List of disasters in Thailand
- List of disasters in the United States
Other
- List of disasters by cost
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