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Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the ...
This article is a list of environmental disasters. In this context it is an annotated list of specific events caused by human activity that results in a negative effect on the environment . Main article: Environmental disaster
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
A natural hazard [18] is a natural phenomenon that might have a negative effect on humans and other animals, or the environment. Natural hazard events can be classified into two broad categories: geophysical and biological. [19] Natural hazards can be provoked or affected by anthropogenic processes, e.g. land-use change, drainage and ...
A biotechnology catastrophe may be caused by accidentally releasing a genetically engineered organism from controlled environments, by the planned release of such an organism which then turns out to have unforeseen and catastrophic interactions with essential natural or agro-ecosystems, or by intentional usage of biological agents in biological ...
Most casualties caused by catastrophic inland flooding in Western North Carolina and surrounding areas. 2024 Hurricane: 70 (45 in the US) >$6.86 billion Hurricane Beryl: Caribbean, Venezuela, Yucatán Peninsula, United States Beryl is the earliest category 4 and 5 hurricane in history. 2023 Hurricane: 7 (+3 indirect) $2.2-5 billion Hurricane ...
Describing the first category, which it calls “weaponization risk,” the report states: “such systems could potentially be used to design and even execute catastrophic biological, chemical ...
Includes country profiles, disaster profiles and a disaster list. "Natural Hazard Information from the Coastal Ocean Institute". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Particularly including articles on tsunamis, hurricanes and other storms. "Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System".