Shaanxi Earthquake – China – 1556 AD

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The light loess soils of Northwest China are easily shaken by an earthquake. In 1556, a huge population lived there…

Arequipa Volcanic Eruption – Peru – February 19, 1600

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A volcanic eruption of VEI strength 6 from a 13,000-foot-high mountain near Arequipa On February 19, 1600, South America’s biggest…

Preventing Nuclear Terrorism

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In 1986, the Nuclear Control Institute, in cooperation with the Institute for Studies in International Terrorism of the State University…

Terrorism

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The role of terrorists in the history of disasters is different from all others in that it is a sustained…

Preventing Bioterrorism

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The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) discusses with the U.S. Congress issues related to the adequacy of federal law relating…

Sayano-Shushenskaya Power Station Disaster – 2009

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The Yenisei River runs 5,494 km (3,534 mi) northwards from Mongolia to the Arctic Ocean, dividing west from east Siberia.…

Can Tho Bridge Collapse – 2007

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Can Tho, 170 km (105 mi) southwest of Ho Chi Minh City, is both a province and the biggest city…

I-35W: the Minneapolis Bridge Disaster – 2007

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Gusset plates are not glamorous, but like the two-dollar O-ring seals on the space shuttle Challenger, you take them for…

The Sinking of the Estonia – 1994

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On September 27 1994 the ferry Estonia set sail on a night voyage across the Baltic Sea from the port…

The Marchioness Disaster – 1989

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Many people living in Great Britain still remember learning of the appalling disaster that befell a leisure cruiser on the…