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.
Aliases (36)
- natural disaster ×15
- earthquake ×8
- pandemic ×8
- environmental disaster ×5
- epidemic ×5
- famine ×4
- man-made disaster ×3
- tropical cyclone ×3
- bubonic plague outbreak ×2
- bubonic plague pandemic ×2
- football-related disaster ×2
- humanitarian crisis ×2
- industrial disaster ×2
- mass casualty incident ×2
- nuclear disaster ×2
- stadium disaster ×2
- tsunami ×2
- Category 5 Atlantic hurricane ×1
- cataclysmic flood event ×1
- crowd disaster ×1
- disaster in Rome ×1
- disaster in the United States ×1
- drought ×1
- dust storm ×1
- dust storm disaster ×1
- flood ×1
- historical disaster ×1
- human disaster ×1
- man-made famine ×1
- mass extinction ×1
- military disaster ×1
- public transportation disaster ×1
- series of wildfires ×1
- storm surge ×1
- technological disaster ×1
- wildfire ×1
Instances (97)
- North Sea flood of 1953 ("storm surge")
- 2013 Boston Marathon bombing ("mass casualty incident")
- 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic ("pandemic")
- 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak ("epidemic")
- 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ("earthquake")
- Black Death ("pandemic")
- Dust Bowl ("environmental disaster")
- Great Plague of London ("epidemic")
- Great Fire of London
- 1755 Lisbon earthquake ("earthquake")
- 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ("epidemic")
- Great Hanshin earthquake ("earthquake")
- Hurricane Katrina ("Category 5 Atlantic hurricane")
- Great Kanto earthquake ("earthquake")
- Beirut port explosion of 4 August 2020 ("industrial disaster")
- Peshtigo Fire ("wildfire")
- Great Midwest Fires of 1871 ("series of wildfires")
- Charge of the Light Brigade ("military disaster")
- 2011 Virginia earthquake ("earthquake")
- Columbia disaster ("disaster in the United States")
- Holodomor ("famine")
- An Gorta Mór ("famine")
- Triassic ("mass extinction")
- Great Chicago Fire of 1871
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ("tsunami")
- Great Holland Fire of 1871
- Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster ("nuclear disaster")
- HIV/AIDS ("pandemic")
- 2009 Red Line collision ("public transportation disaster")
- Hillsborough disaster ("human disaster")
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake ("earthquake")
- Heysel Stadium disaster ("stadium disaster")
- Great Fire of Portland 1866
- Cyclone Tracy ("tropical cyclone")
- Great Famine ("famine")
- Atlantic hurricanes ("tropical cyclone")
- Flint water crisis ("environmental disaster")
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill ("environmental disaster")
- Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
- Soviet Ukraine ("man-made famine")
- COVID-19 pandemic ("pandemic")
- 1992 Cape Mendocino earthquakes ("natural disaster")
- Great Fire of 1698 at Whitehall
- Dirty Thirties ("environmental disaster")
- Justinianic Plague ("pandemic")
- Third Plague Pandemic ("pandemic")
- pontificate of Clement VI ("pandemic")
- Great Fire of Rome ("disaster in Rome")
- Black Sunday ("dust storm")
- 1185 Lincoln earthquake ("earthquake")
- 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires ("natural disaster")
- Chernobyl disaster ("nuclear disaster")
- Delft gunpowder explosion
- 2015–2016 Zika virus outbreak ("epidemic")
- 1918 influenza pandemic ("pandemic")
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ("tsunami")
- Centennial Olympic Park bombing ("mass casualty incident")
- Darfur conflict ("humanitarian crisis")
- 1986 San Salvador earthquake ("earthquake")
- 2010 Chile earthquake ("natural disaster")
- Tay Bridge disaster
- Great Famine of 1315–1317 ("famine")
- Missoula floods ("cataclysmic flood event")