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

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

These are lists of disasters caused by accidental human action.

• List of accidents and disasters by death toll

Transport

• 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

• 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

Health

• 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

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 (almost all caused by failures of management)
• List of military disasters
• List of riots
• List of terrorist incidents
• List of wars
  • List of anthropogenic disasters by death toll

By location

• 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 Great Britain and Ireland
• 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 South Korea
• List of disasters in Thailand
• List of disasters in the United States

Other

• List of disasters by cost
• List of engineering blunders