Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-330) and index.
Black Death -- Great Influenza Epidemic -- Worldwide AIDS epidemic --
1876 China famine -- Fourteenth-Century China drought, famine, and
epidemic -- 1896 India drought, famine, and disease disaster -- 1932
Ukraine famine -- 1921 Ukraine famine -- 1520 Mexico Smallpox
Epidemic -- English sweating sickness -- Yellow River and Yangtze
River floods -- Irish Potato Famine -- 1970 Bangladesh cyclone --
1556 Great China earthquake -- 1976 Tangshan, China, earthquake --
1891 Russia famine -- Plague of Justinian --526 Antioch, Syria,
earthquake -- 1920 Gansu, China, earthquake -- 1908 Messina, Sicily,
earthquake -- Great Kanto earthquake -- 1815 eruption of Tambora and
the Year without a summer -- 1864 Calcutta cyclone -- 1970 Peru
earthquake and landslide -- 1988 Armenia earthquake -- 1755 Lisbon,
Portugal, earthquake -- 1939 Erzincan, Turkey, earthquake -- 1990
Iran earthquake and landslide -- Eruption of Mount Pelee -- Eruption
of Mount Krakatoa -- 1999 Izmit, Turkey, earthquake -- Great
Hurricane of 1780 -- 1896 Japanese Tsunami -- 79 eruption of Mount
Vesuvius -- Hurricane Mitch -- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident --
Hurricane Fifi -- Galveston Hurricane -- London Killer Fog of 1952 --
1928 West Indies and Lake Okeechobee Hurricane -- 1995 Kobe
earthquake -- 1897 collision of the Dona Paz and the Vector -- 1856
Rhodes Church explosion -- Bhopal Chemical leak -- 1906 San Francisco
earthquake -- September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks -- Johnstown
Flood -- 1917 Mont Blanc explosion -- The sinking of the Sultana --
Sinking of the Titanic -- Great Chicago Fire and Peshtigo Forrest
Fire -- Sinking of the Toya Maru -- 1906 Courrieres Mine Explosion --
Sinking of the Empress of Ireland -- Fire on the General Slocum --
1988 New York City Blizzard --Tristate tornadoes -- 1903 Iroquois
Theater Fire -- Hurricane Georges -- Great New England Hurricane of
1938 -- 1977 Tenerife Runaway Collision -- 1947 Texas City Harbor
Explosion -- 1944 Italy Train Tunnel Suffocation Disaster -- 1985
Japan Air Lines Flight 123 Crash -- 1942 Coconut Grove Fire -- 2002
Egyptian Train Fire -- 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster -- 1996
Saudi-Kazak Midair Collision -- 1974 Turkish Airlines DC-10 Crash --
L'Innovation Department Store Fire -- 1974 Midwestern tornadoes --
1964 Lima soccer riot -- 1979 American Airlines DC-10 Crash -- 1988
Pam Am Lockerbie bombing -- 1985 Stava Dam Failure -- Crash of Flight
800 -- Quintinshill Rail Crash -- 1966 Florence Art Flood -- Oklahoma
City Bombing -- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Fire --
Triangle Factory Fire -- 1934 Fire on the Morro Castle -- Winecoff
Hotel Fire -- 1981 Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse -- Great Nashville
Train Wreck -- Hurricane Andrew -- 1989 San Francisco Earthquake --
1993 U.S. Midwest Floods -- Hurricane Hugo -- Explosion of the
Hindenburg -- 1991 Oakland Hills Fires -- Great London Fire of 1666
-- Exxon Valdez Oil Spill -- Dust Bowl -- 1979 Three Mile Island
Nuclear Accident -- 1929 U.S. Stock Market Crash -- Space Shuttle
Challenger Explosion -- Apollo 1 Fire -- 1851 Library of Congress
Fire.
Book Details:
Language: eng
Physical Description: xvii, 346 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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