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Stöwer Titanic
Sinking of the RMS Titanic, 1912

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 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 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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