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This combination of before and after images shows damage at the Dzaoudzi Port on the French Territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean after Cyclone Chido, Dec. 16, 2024.
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
A nuclear close call is an incident that might have led to at least one unintended nuclear detonation or explosion, but did not. These incidents typically involve a perceived imminent threat to a nuclear-armed country which could lead to retaliatory strikes against the perceived aggressor.
Districts of Haiti Map of Haiti. 1691. Earthquake [2]; 1751. 3 June: Earthquake at Port-au-Prince and areas to the south. The city and towns were destroyed. [3] [4]1816. 18–19 November: [5] a cyclone caused considerable damage in the countryside of Ouest department and in the Gulf of Gonâve.
Badly destroyed in Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, Haiti’s largest public hospital faced it share of troubles even before the armed attacks. Still, staff and patients had long pinned their hopes on ...
A rare tornado in northern Haiti has injured more than 50 people and destroyed more than 200 homes, the U.N. said Wednesday. The tornado hit the community of Bassin-Bleu on Tuesday, leaving more ...
The Soviet nuclear submarine K-129 sank with a crew of 98 due to an explosion of unknown cause. The International Atomic Energy Agency stated that two nuclear warheads from K-129 were located in the Pacific 1,230 miles from Kamchatka at coordinates 40°6'N and 179°57'E at a depth of 6,000 metres (20,000 ft), and lists them as recovered. May 22 ...
The medical effects of the atomic bomb upon humans can be put into the four categories below, with the effects of larger thermonuclear weapons producing blast and thermal effects so large that there would be a negligible number of survivors close enough to the center of the blast who would experience prompt/acute radiation effects, which were observed after the 16 kiloton yield Hiroshima bomb ...