Lists of disasters

Further information on disasters: Disaster

Sinking of the RMS Titanic, 1912 Starvation in Bengal, 1943 Tenerife airport disaster, 1977 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 1984 Oil in Gulf of Mexico, 2010 Tōhoku Earthquake, 2011 Grounding of Costa Concordia, 2012 Moore Tornado, 2013

The following are lists of disasters.

## Natural disasters

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A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. These lists are lists of natural disasters:

* List of avalanches
* List of blizzards
* List of derecho events
* List of droughts
* Lists of earthquakes
* List of fires
* List of wildfires
* List of California wildfires
* List of floods
* History of flooding in Canada
* List of deadliest floods
* List of flash floods
* List of floods in the Netherlands
* List of floods in Pakistan
* List of floods in Sheffield
* 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
* Lists of retired tropical cyclone names
* List of historical tropical cyclone names
* Outline of tropical cyclones
* List of tsunamis
* List of large volcanic eruptions
* List of volcanic eruptions 1500–2000
* List of volcanic eruptions in the 21st century
* List of volcanic eruptions by death toll

## Disasters caused by accidental human action

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These are lists of disasters caused by accidental human action.

* List of accidents and disasters by death toll

### Transport

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* List of aviation accidents and incidents
* List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
* Lists of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft
* List of airship accidents
* List of ballooning accidents
* List of accidents and incidents involving helicopters
* List of elevator accidents
* List of maritime disasters
* List of shipwrecks
* List of boiler explosions
* List of rail accidents
* List of boiler explosions
* List of tram accidents
* List of tanker explosions
* List of road accidents
* List of tanker explosions
* List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents

### Industrial

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* List of industrial disasters
* List of natural gas and oil production accidents in the United States
* List of structural failures and collapses
* List of bridge failures
* List of dam failures
* List of levee failures
* List of mast and tower collapses
* List of modern infrastructure failures
* List of explosions
* List of boiler explosions
* List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE)
* List of major power outages
* List of mining disasters
* List of coal mining accidents in China
* List of gold mining disasters
* List of mining disasters in Lancashire
* List of mining disasters in Poland
* Nuclear and radiation accidents
* Japanese nuclear incidents
* List of civilian radiation accidents
* List of Chernobyl-related articles
* List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
* Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
* List of sunken nuclear submarines
* List of oil spills

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* List of famines
* List of food contamination incidents
* List of epidemics and pandemics
* List of mass evacuations
* List of medicine contamination incidents
* List of methanol poisoning incidents

## Disasters caused by deliberate human action

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These are lists of disasters caused by deliberate human action or public endangerment or culpable negligence.

* List of amusement park accidents
* List of economic crises
* List of environmental disasters
* List of explosions
* List of boiler explosions
* List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE)
* List of tanker explosions
* List of fires
* List of building or structure fires
* List of circus fires
* List of hotel fires in the United States
* List of nightclub fires
* List of town and city fires
* List of transportation fires
* List of fireworks accidents and incidents
* List of man-made mass poisoning incidents
* List of orphan radioactive source incidents
* List of crushes
* List of military disasters
* List of riots
* List of terrorist incidents
* List of wars
* List of wars by death toll

## By location

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* List of disasters in Antarctica
* List of disasters in Australia
* List of disasters in Canada
* List of disasters in Canada by death toll
* List of disasters in Croatia
* List of disasters in Estonia
* List of disasters in Fiji
* List of disasters in Finland
* List of disasters in France
* List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland
* List of disasters in Greece
* List of disasters in Haiti
* Lists of disasters in Indonesia
* List of disasters in Indonesia
* List of earthquakes in Indonesia
* List of natural disasters in Indonesia
* List of disasters in New Zealand
* List of natural disasters in New Zealand
* List of disasters in Pakistan
* List of disasters in the Philippines
* List of disasters in Poland
* List of disasters in Singapore
* List of disasters in South Korea
* List of man-made disasters in South Korea
* List of disasters in Spain
* List of disasters in Sweden
* List of disasters in Switzerland
* List of disasters in Taiwan
* List of disasters in Thailand
* List of disasters in the United States

## Other

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* List of disasters by cost
* List of engineering blunders

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* Lists
* by death toll
* by cost
* Australia
* Bangladesh
* Canada
* China
* Croatia
* Czech Republic
* Estonia
* Fiji
* Finland
* France
* Great Britain and Ireland
* Greece
* Haiti
* India
* Indonesia
* Japan
* Malta
* New Zealand
* Norway
* Pakistan
* Philippines
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Singapore
* South Korea
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Taiwan
* Thailand
* United States
* Vietnam

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Natural disasters – list by death toll

Geological|

| Mass wasting|

* Landslide
* Avalanche
* Mudflow
* Debris flow

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Earthquake
(List)|

* Seismic hazard
* Seismic risk
* Soil liquefaction

Volcano eruption|

* Pyroclastic flow
* Lahar
* Volcanic ash

Natural erosion|

* Sinkhole

Hydrological|

| Flood
(List)|

* Coastal flood
* Flash flood
* Storm surge

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Other|

* Tsunami
* Megatsunami
* Limnic eruption

Meteorological|

| Temperature|

* Blizzard
* Cold wave
* Ice storm
* Heat wave

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Drought|

* Megadrought

Cyclonic storms|

* Bomb cyclone
* Thunderstorm (Hail)
* Tornado (Tornado outbreak)
* Tropical cyclone

Other|

* Derecho
* Wildfire
* Firestorm
* ARkStorm

Astronomical|

* Potentially hazardous object
* Impact event
* Meteor shower
* Geomagnetic storm
* Solar flare
* Supernova
* Hypernova

Accidents|

| Health|

* Biosecurity
* Diseases of affluence
* Disease of despair
* Diseases of poverty
* Epidemic
* list
* Famine
* List
* Famine scales
* Opioid epidemic
* Pandemic

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Industrial|

* Bridge
* Dam
* Infrastructure
* Levee breach
* Mast and tower
* Mining
* Oil spills
* Structural failures and collapses

Nuclear
(by death toll)|

* Civilian nuclear
* Civilian radiation
* Military nuclear

Transport|

* Air
* Maritime
* Rail
* Shipwreck
* Spaceflight

Man-made|

* Crowd collapses and crushes
* Economic crises
* Environmental disasters
* Sacrifice zone
* Military
* Nightclub fires
* Riots
* Societal collapse
* Terrorist incidents
* Wars

Preparation|

* Disaster risk reduction
* Earthquake preparedness
* Hurricane preparedness
* Safety
* Survival kit
* Anticipatory action

Countermeasures|

* Crisis management
* Disaster area
* Earthquake warning system
* Emergency Alert System
* Emergency management
* Emergency population warning
* Evacuations
* Humanitarian aid
* Hurricane response

Media|

* Disaster film (List of disaster films)

Organizations|

* Civil defense (List of civil defense organisations)
* Disaster Accountability Project
* International Association of Emergency Managers
* International Disaster and Risk Conference
* International Disaster Emergency Service

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