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  • Thumbnail for Disaster
    A disaster is an event that causes harm to people, things, economies, or the environment that the affected community or society cannot handle on its own...
    27 KB (3,586 words) - 09:29, 28 June 2024
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    A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. Examples of natural hazard events include floods...
    65 KB (9,322 words) - 03:56, 28 June 2024
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    A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the...
    66 KB (2,784 words) - 03:15, 28 June 2024
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    The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in...
    272 KB (29,501 words) - 11:01, 19 June 2024
  • warnings to maritime shipping. Upon the onset of a meteorological or geological disaster that would pose a danger to shipping lanes, warnings are issued within...
    7 KB (732 words) - 07:21, 22 May 2024
  • also conducts research on geology, mineral resources, and geological hazards. The CGS is responsible for publishing geological maps, reports, and other...
    24 KB (2,889 words) - 01:31, 7 December 2023
  • The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh...
    90 KB (11,174 words) - 10:10, 19 May 2024
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    column of ash and smoke according to the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation's (PVMBG) magma volcanic activity report, which also said...
    25 KB (2,260 words) - 14:03, 7 April 2024
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    The Kyshtym disaster, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that...
    29 KB (3,003 words) - 19:46, 12 June 2024
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    some evidence that geological disasters do more economic harm than climate-related disasters, in the long term. Geological disasters, such as landslides...
    18 KB (2,111 words) - 02:47, 7 June 2024
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    Emergency population warning (category Disaster preparedness)
    hurricanes, and ice storms. Geological disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Industrial disasters such as the release of...
    21 KB (2,701 words) - 05:48, 12 June 2024
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    The Monongah mining disaster was a coal mine explosion on December 6, 1907, at Fairmont Coal Company's Nos. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia, which...
    12 KB (1,317 words) - 02:18, 9 April 2024
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    mission; the launch and subsequent disaster were seen live in many schools across the United States. The cause of the disaster was the failure of the primary...
    117 KB (11,617 words) - 20:59, 24 June 2024
  • Reservoir Geology and Exploitation of CDUT covers two first-level doctoral programs of 'Geological Resources and Geological Engineering' and 'Geology'. Including...
    26 KB (2,666 words) - 20:41, 26 April 2024
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    IV Inspectorate V Geological Agency Center for Mineral Resources, Coal, and Geothermal Center for Vulcanology and Geological Disaster Management Research...
    35 KB (1,047 words) - 12:03, 28 December 2023
  • warning about volcanoes within the Indonesian region of responsibility and geological hazard mitigation. The full official Indonesian name is the Pusat Vulkanologi...
    6 KB (412 words) - 15:47, 24 July 2023
  • what the reasons are for so many bodies in one location, such as a geological disaster or a ritual sacrifice, a plague is also considered as a hypothesis...
    11 KB (1,296 words) - 05:25, 4 June 2024
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    they might represent species that had become extinct through some geological disaster. In a series of lectures in 1668, Hooke proposed the then-heretical...
    89 KB (10,828 words) - 21:46, 29 May 2024
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    Tseax Cone (category Natural disasters in British Columbia)
    River. This would make it the deadliest geological disaster in Canada and the second-worst natural disaster in Canadian history by death toll, succeeded...
    40 KB (4,766 words) - 22:56, 27 June 2024
  • also refer to: Disaster (film), a 1948 drama film directed by William H. Pine "Disaster" (Dave song) "Disaster" (JoJo song), 2011 "Disaster" (Star Trek:...
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