Lists of disasters
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Starvation in Bengal, 1943
Bombed Dresden, 1945
Train Accident Eschede, 1998
Oil in Gulf of Mexico, 2010
Tōhoku Earthquake, 2011
Moore Tornado, 2013
The following are lists of disasters.
Contents
Natural disasters[edit]
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 environmental disasters
- List of fires
- 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
- List of tropical cyclones
- List of historical tsunamis
- List of volcanic eruptions
Accidents[edit]
These are lists of disasters caused by accidental human action.
Transport[edit]
Industrial[edit]
Health[edit]
- List of famines
- List of food contamination incidents
- List of epidemics
- List of mass evacuations
- List of medicine contamination incidents
- List of methanol poisoning incidents
Manmade[edit]
These are lists of disasters caused by deliberate human action.
- List of fireworks accidents and incidents
- List of man-made mass poisoning incidents
- List of massacres
- List of military disasters
- List of riots
- List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of wars
By location[edit]
- List of disasters in Croatia
- List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland
- List of disasters in Haiti
- List of disasters in Indonesia
- List of disasters in New Zealand
- List of disasters in the Philippines
- List of disasters in Poland
- List of disasters in Thailand
- List of disasters in the United States
- List of natural disasters in Pakistan