Catastrophe!: The 100 Greatest Disasters Of All TimeCitadel Press, 2004 - 346 páginas 'In this compendium of the worst natural, manmade, and political catastrophes of all time are chilling stories of mass destruction, horrific plagues, shocking acts of terrorism, and killer storms - proof that life can change in the blink of an eye. More than half of the disasters chronicled are natural ... floods, droughts, famines, storms and epidemics ... From the Great Influenza Epidemic after WWI, which took nearly forty million lives, to the Irish Potato Famine of 1846, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the 1888 New York City Blizzard, and the Dust Bowl ... manmade calamities make the list as well: technological mishaps, transportation accidents, and large-scale riots, including ... the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, the sinking of the Titanic, the Hindenburg and Challenger explosions, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - along with horrific accounts of mining disasters, hazardous chemical releases, building collapses, radioactive fallout, and airplane crashes.' (From back cover) Also included in the 100 disasters are the 9/11 World Trade Center [sic] and Pentagon attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing. |
Contenido
The Disasters 1 The Black Death | 1 |
The Great Influenza Epidemic | 6 |
The Worldwide AIDS Epidemic | 10 |
The 1876 China Famine | 13 |
The FourteenthCentury China Drought Famine and Epidemic | 16 |
The 1896 India Drought Famine and Disease Disaster | 19 |
The 1932 Ukraine Famine | 22 |
The 1921 Ukraine Famine | 25 |
The Sinking of the Toya Maru | 165 |
The 1906 Courrières Mine Explosion | 168 |
The Sinking of the Empress of Ireland | 171 |
The Fire on the General Slocum | 175 |
The 1888 New York City Blizzard | 178 |
The 1981 India Rail Accident | 181 |
The Tristate Tornadoes | 184 |
The 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire | 187 |
The 1520 Mexico Smallpox Epidemic | 28 |
The English Sweating Sickness | 31 |
The Yellow River and Yangtze River Floods | 34 |
The Irish Potato Famine | 38 |
The 1970 Bangladesh Cyclone | 41 |
The 1556 Great China Earthquake | 44 |
The 1976 Tangshan China Earthquake | 47 |
The 1891 Russia Famine | 50 |
Contents ix | 52 |
The Plague of Justinian | 53 |
The 526 Antioch Syria Earthquake | 56 |
The 1920 Gansu China Earthquake | 59 |
The 1908 Messina Sicily Earthquake | 62 |
The Great Kanto Earthquake | 65 |
The 1815 Eruption of Tambora and the Year Without a Summer | 68 |
The 1864 Calcutta Cyclone | 72 |
The 1970 Peru Earthquake and Landslide | 75 |
The 1988 Armenia Earthquake | 78 |
The 1755 Lisbon Portugal Earthquake | 81 |
The 1939 Erzincan Turkey Earthquake | 84 |
The 1990 Iran Earthquake and Landslide | 87 |
The Eruption of Mount Pelée | 90 |
The Eruption of Mount Krakatoa | 93 |
The 1999 Izmit Turkey Earthquake | 96 |
The Great Hurricane of 1780 | 99 |
The 1896 Japanese Tsunami | 102 |
The 79 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius | 105 |
Hurricane Mitch | 108 |
The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident | 111 |
Hurricane Fifi | 115 |
The Galveston Hurricane | 118 |
The London Killer Fog of 1952 | 121 |
The 1928 West Indies and Lake Okeechobee Hurricane | 124 |
The 1995 Kobe Earthquake | 127 |
The 1987 Collision of the Dona Paz and the Vector | 130 |
The 1856 Rhodes Church Explosion | 133 |
The Bhopal Chemical Leak | 136 |
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake | 140 |
The September 11 2001 Terrorist Attacks | 146 |
The Johnstown Flood | 149 |
The 1917 Mont Blanc Explosion | 153 |
The Sinking of the Sultana | 156 |
The Sinking of the Titanic | 159 |
The Great Chicago Fire and Peshtigo Forest Fire | 162 |
Hurricane Georges | 191 |
The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 | 194 |
The 1977 Tenerife Runway Collision | 198 |
The 1947 Texas City Harbor Explosion | 201 |
The 1944 Italy Train Tunnel Suffocation Disaster | 204 |
The 1985 Japan Air Lines Flight 123 Crash | 207 |
The 1942 Cocoanut Grove Fire | 210 |
The 2002 Egyptian Train Fire | 213 |
The 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster | 216 |
The 1996 SaudiKazak Midair Collision | 220 |
The 1974 Turkish Airlines DC10 Crash | 223 |
The LInnovation Department Store Fire | 226 |
The 1974 Midwestern Tornadoes | 229 |
The 1964 Lima Soccer Riot | 233 |
The 1979 American Airlines DC10 Crash | 236 |
The 1988 Pan Am Lockerbie Bombing | 239 |
The 1985 Stava Dam Failure | 242 |
The Crash of Flight 800 | 245 |
The Quintinshill Rail Crash | 248 |
The 1966 Florence Art Flood | 251 |
The Oklahoma City Bombing | 254 |
The Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey Circus Fire | 257 |
The Triangle Factory Fire | 260 |
The 1934 Fire on the Morro Castle | 264 |
The Winecoff Hotel Fire | 267 |
The 1981 Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse | 270 |
The Great Nashville Train Wreck | 273 |
Hurricane Andrew | 276 |
The 1989 San Francisco Earthquake | 279 |
The 1993 U S Midwest Floods | 282 |
Hurricane Hugo | 285 |
The Explosion of the Hindenburg | 288 |
The 1991 Oakland Hills Fires | 292 |
The Great London Fire of 1666 | 295 |
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill | 298 |
The Dust Bowl | 301 |
The 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident | 304 |
The 1929 U S Stock Market Crash | 307 |
The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion | 310 |
The Apollo 1 Fire | 313 |
Measuring an Earthquakes Intensity | 320 |
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About the Author 345 | |
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