disaster

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concept

A disaster is a sudden, disruptive event—natural or human-made—that causes significant harm to people, property, or the environment and overwhelms normal coping capacities.

All labels observed (83)

Label Occurrences
natural disaster 109
earthquake 73
flood 37

Instances (360)

Instance Via concept surface
Hurricane Sandy flooding in 2012 flood disaster
Golden Age Nursing Home fire disaster in the United States
1992 Landers earthquake earthquake
1999 Hector Mine earthquake earthquake
Halifax Explosion industrial disaster
Karachi monsoon floods natural disaster
1976 Big Thompson Canyon flood natural disaster
Bijlmer disaster
1994 Rabaul eruption natural disaster
Teton Dam failure flooding flood
2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami earthquake
Hurricane Harvey flooding in 2017 flood
St. Francis Dam disaster flood disaster
Great Storm of 1913 natural disaster
destruction of Kakhovka Dam dam failure event
Donora, Pennsylvania
surface form: 1948 Donora smog
air pollution disaster
Bengal famine of 1943 famine
Bangladesh famine of 1974 famine
Tangshan
surface form: 1976 Tangshan earthquake
earthquake
Hunger Winter famine
Year Without a Summer weather disaster
Fire of 1823
1900 Galveston hurricane natural disaster
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire industrial disaster
North Sea flood of 1953 storm surge
2013 Boston Marathon bombing mass casualty incident
Great New Orleans Fire of 1788
2018 Lion Air Flight 610 crash site disaster site
Great Tokyo fire whirl at Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho
Kanto Daishinsai earthquake
2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic pandemic
2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak epidemic
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake earthquake
Black Death pandemic
Oder flood of 1997 flood
Peshtigo, Wisconsin
surface form: Peshtigo Fire
wildfire
2010 Haiti earthquake earthquake
Black Hole of Calcutta mass fatality incident
2018 Anak Krakatau eruption and tsunami tsunami
Dust Bowl environmental disaster
Exxon Valdez oil spill environmental disaster
Starving Time (1609–1610) famine
North Anna Nuclear Generating Station facilities
surface form: 2011 Virginia earthquake
earthquake
1927 Crimean earthquake earthquake
1963 Skopje earthquake earthquake
Great Plague of London epidemic
2010 Copiapó mining accident
Great Fire of London
Hurricane Dorian Category 5 Atlantic hurricane
1755 Lisbon earthquake earthquake