An edition of The 100 greatest disasters of all time
(2002)
The 100 greatest disasters of all time
by Stephen J. Spignesi
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Catastrophe! The 100 Greatest Disasters of All Time
December 1, 2004, Citadel
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0806525584 9780806525587
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Table of Contents
Black Death
Great Influenza Epidemic
Worldwide AIDS epidemic
1876 China famine
Fourteenth-Century China drought, famine, and epidemic
1896 India drought, famine, and disease disaster
1932 Ukraine famine
1921 Ukraine famine
1520 Mexico Smallpox Epidemic
English sweating sickness
Yellow River and Yangtze River floods
Irish Potato Famine
1970 Bangladesh cyclone
1556 Great China earthquake
1976 Tangshan, China, earthquake
1891 Russia famine
Plague of Justinian
526 Antioch, Syria, earthquake
1920 Gansu, China, earthquake
1908 Messina, Sicily, earthquake
Great Kanto earthquake
1815 eruption of Tambora and the Year without a summer
1864 Calcutta cyclone
1970 Peru earthquake and landslide
1988 Armenia earthquake
1755 Lisbon, Portugal, earthquake
1939 Erzincan, Turkey, earthquake
1990 Iran earthquake and landslide
Eruption of Mount Pelee
Eruption of Mount Krakatoa
1999 Izmit, Turkey, earthquake
Great Hurricane of 1780
1896 Japanese Tsunami
79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Hurricane Mitch
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
Hurricane Fifi
Galveston Hurricane
London Killer Fog of 1952
1928 West Indies and Lake Okeechobee Hurricane
1995 Kobe earthquake
1897 collision of the Dona Paz and the Vector
1856 Rhodes Church explosion
Bhopal Chemical leak
1906 San Francisco earthquake
September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks
Johnstown Flood
1917 Mont Blanc explosion
The sinking of the Sultana
Sinking of the Titanic
Great Chicago Fire and Peshtigo Forrest Fire
Sinking of the Toya Maru
1906 Courrieres Mine Explosion
Sinking of the Empress of Ireland
Fire on the General Slocum
1988 New York City Blizzard
Tristate tornadoes
1903 Iroquois Theater Fire
Hurricane Georges
Great New England Hurricane of 1938
1977 Tenerife Runaway Collision
1947 Texas City Harbor Explosion
1944 Italy Train Tunnel Suffocation Disaster
1985 Japan Air Lines Flight 123 Crash
1942 Coconut Grove Fire
2002 Egyptian Train Fire
1907 Monongah Mine Disaster
1996 Saudi-Kazak Midair Collision
1974 Turkish Airlines DC-10 Crash
L'Innovation Department Store Fire
1974 Midwestern tornadoes
1964 Lima soccer riot
1979 American Airlines DC-10 Crash
1988 Pam Am Lockerbie bombing
1985 Stava Dam Failure
Crash of Flight 800
Quintinshill Rail Crash
1966 Florence Art Flood
Oklahoma City Bombing
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Fire
Triangle Factory Fire
1934 Fire on the Morro Castle
Winecoff Hotel Fire
1981 Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse
Great Nashville Train Wreck
Hurricane Andrew
1989 San Francisco Earthquake
1993 U.S. Midwest Floods
Hurricane Hugo
Explosion of the Hindenburg
1991 Oakland Hills Fires
Great London Fire of 1666
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Dust Bowl
1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
1929 U.S. Stock Market Crash
Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion
Apollo 1 Fire
1851 Library of Congress Fire.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-330) and index.
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