List of disasters

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This is a list of world disasters, both natural and man-made. For catastrophic disease outbreaks, there is a list of epidemics.

A disaster is a natural or man-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry, often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment. Disasters manifest as hazards exacerbating vulnerable conditions and exceeding individuals' and communities' means to survive and thrive. Most of the catastrophic disasters listed in this article have occurred at a specific non-enduring time in history rather than a longer time-period (e.g. this excludes entire long-lasting wars while including specific events during wars).

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[edit] Natural disasters

[edit] Prehistoric disasters

[edit] Classical antiquity disasters

[edit] Medieval disasters

[edit] Renaissance and Enlightenment disasters

[edit] 19th century disasters

[edit] 20th century disasters

[edit] 21st century disasters

[edit] Man-made disasters

[edit] Air disasters

Main article: List of notable accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft

This is a list of disasters involving objects in flight or near-flight. From 1990 onward, the list is exhaustive, including all air disasters killing 20 or more people.

See also: List of space disasters, Accidents and incidents in aviation

[edit] 1910s

[edit] 1920s

[edit] 1930s

[edit] 1940s

[edit] 1950s

[edit] 1960s

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1980s

[edit] 1990s

[edit] 2000s

[edit] Rail disasters

Main article: List of rail accidents

See also: List of rail accidents

[edit] Ship and ferry disasters

See also: List of shipwrecks

[edit] Road disasters

Main article: List of road accidents

[edit] Nuclear disasters

[edit] War disasters

An attack with much collateral damage may be considered a disaster, such as the attack on KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945, the worst or perhaps second worst maritime incident in history (after Cap Arcona in two vessels), in terms of loss of life in a single vessel (see also note at the end of the article RMS Titanic).

[edit] Dam/dike/levee disasters

[edit] Environmental disasters

Main article: List of environmental disasters

[edit] Mining disasters

See also: List of mining disasters in Poland

[edit] Industrial disasters

[edit] Explosion disasters

[edit] Fire disasters

Main article: List of historic fires

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Causes of hypothetical future disasters

Main article: Hypothetical disaster

[edit] See also

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