Disaster
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A disaster is an event that causes such serious harm to people, buildings, economies, or the environment that the affected community cannot manage without external assistance or relief. The United Nat
Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, one of the worst disasters in the history of the United States
Painting of the Turku Cathedral and the Academy of Turku after the Great Fire of Turku, by Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg (1827)
Economic loss risk for six natural disasters: tropical cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes.
Airplane crashes and terrorist attacks are examples of man-made disasters: they kill and injure people, destroy and damage property, and cause pollution. The pictured example is the September 11 attacks in 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York City.
Lists of disasters
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The following are lists of disasters.
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…List of accidents and disasters by death toll Lists of disasters This article incorporates text from a free content work. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (license statement/permission). Text taken from The Impact of Disasters…
Sinking of the RMS Titanic, 1912
Starvation in Bengal, 1943
Tenerife airport disaster, 1977
Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 1984