Disasters: Natural or Man-made

Other Disasters

Natural Disasters

AT SEA

ENVIRONMENTAL

AVALANCHE

EARTHQUAKES

Titanic (sinking) 

 

The Sinking of the Titanic

 

 

Discovery of Titanic

 

 

Valdez oil spill     

 

Oil Spill Facts

 

 

Major Oil Industry Accidents

Avalanche Awareness

 

Nova Online Avalanche

 

Avalanche.org

World Series Earthquake (Loma Prieta) 

Where was that Earthquake

 

California Geology Article

 

 

Lusitania (sinking) 5/7/1915

 

The Sinking of Lusitania

 

 

The Lusitania - May 1915

Piper Alpha Oil Platform   7/6/1988

 

Oil Rig Blaze

LANDSLIDES

 

How do Avalanches form?

 

Fact Sheets

 

San Francisco Earthquake

Great San Francisco Earthquake 

 

USGS: Casualties & Damage

 

National Archives

 

FIRES

NUCLEAR

FLOODS

HURRICANES

Great Chicago Fire    1871

 

The Chicago Fire

 

 

The Great Fire and the Web of Memory from the Chicago Historical Society

 

The History Files: The Great Fire from the CHS

 

Chicago Public Library

 

Nat'l Geographic Kids Story on Chicago Fire

Chernobyl Atomic Meltdown 4/28/1986

 

Chernobyl Accident

 

Chernobyl: The Facts

 

Johnstown Flood   1889

 

A Roar Like Thunder

 

Johnstown Flood Facts

 

National Park Service: Johnstown Flood

Hurricane Andrew  8/23/1992

 

Hurricane Andrew

 

Effects of Hurricane Andrew

 

Hurricanes Upclose

 

Hurricane Katrina 2005

 

Katrina Timeline

 

Slideshow of Katrina

 

CNN Special: Katrina

 

London fire    9/02/1666

 

BBC History of London Fire

 

Learning Curve: London Fire

Three Mile Island

 

Three Mile Island Event

 

Three Mile Fact Sheet

 

A Nuclear Nightmare

Mississippi River Flood   1993

 

NOAA Flood Site

 

Weather Channel Site

 

 

WILDFIRES at Yellowstone  6/1988

Yellowstone Wildfire

 

Morro Castle Luxury Liner Fire  9/8/1934

 

Morro Castle

OTHER VOLCANOES

TSUNAMI

 

Boston Great Molasses Flood  1/15/1919

 

The Molasses Disaster

 

Great Flood Remembered

 

Molasses Clocked at 35 MPH

 

 

 

Krakatoa August 1883

 

Kracatoa

 

Discovery Channel

 

Tsunami & Earthquakes USGS

 

Earthquakes & Tsunamis

 

Welcome to Tsunami

Triangle Shirt Factory Fire   3/25/1911

 

The Triangle Factory Fire

 

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Hindenburg  (explosion) May 1937

 

Eye Witness to History.com

 

Fall of Hindenburg

 

 

 

Paricutin (volcano in Mexico) 1943

 

Paricutin Volcano

 

The Eruption of Paricutin

 

Facts about Paricutin

December 2004

 

Asian Tsunami Disaster articles

 

Disaster in Asia

SPACE

Mianus River Bridge (collapse)  6/28/1983

 

Highway Accident Report

 

CNN: Bridge Accidents

 

Conn. Turnpike Overview (scroll halfway down)

Pompeii 

 

Pompeii - Minn. State U.

 

Pompeii - Harcourt

 

The Eruption of Vesuvius

 

The Destruction of Pompeii

 

Tornadoes

 

What is a Tornado?

 

FEMA - Tornadoes

 

Plainfield Library Tornado History

 

1990 Will County Tornado

Apollo 13

 

Challenger 1/28/1986

 

Challenger Remembered

 

NASA Directory of Challenger/STS-51 Links

 

 

Mt Saint Helens

 

USGS Site

 

Univ. of N. Dakota Site

 

Columbia  2/1/2003

 

Space Shuttle Columbia

 

NASA Directory of Columbia/STS-107 Links

 

 

 

Author: M. Riordan, J. Gorey
Date Created: January 10, 2005
Date Updated: 01/30/2008