- A
disaster is an
event that
causes serious harm to people, buildings, economies, or the environment, and the
affected community cannot handle it alone...
- A
natural disaster is the very
harmful impact on a
society or
community brought by
natural phenomenon or hazard. Some
examples of
natural hazards include...
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remains the
worst nuclear disaster and the most
expensive disaster in history, with an
estimated cost of US$700 billion. The
disaster occurred while running...
- The
Hindenburg disaster was an
airship accident that
occurred on May 6, 1937, in
Manchester Township, New Jersey,
United States. The LZ 129 Hindenburg...
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Emergency management (also
Disaster management) is a
science and a
system charged with
creating the
framework within which communities reduce vulnerability...
- The
Hillsborough disaster was a
fatal crowd crush at a
football match at
Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield,
South Yorkshire, England, on 15
April 1989...
- A
disaster film or
disaster movie is a film
genre that has an
impending or
ongoing disaster as its
subject and
primary plot device. Such
disasters may...
-
Disaster!: A
Major Motion Picture Ride...Starring You! was a dark ride
attraction at
Universal Studios Florida. Set on a
soundstage of a
fictitious movie...
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methyl isocyanate, in what is
considered the world's
worst industrial disaster. A
government affidavit in 2006
stated that the leak
caused 558,125 injuries...
- The
Aberfan disaster (Welsh:
Trychineb Aberfan) was the
catastrophic collapse of a
colliery spoil tip on 21
October 1966. The tip had been
created on a...
