A disaster area is a region or a locale that has been heavily damaged by either natural, technological or social hazards. Disaster areas affect the population...

The Disaster Area is a collection of science fiction short stories by British author J. G. Ballard. "Storm-bird, Storm-dreamer" "The Concentration City"...

The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh...

A disaster is an event that causes serious harm to people, buildings, economies, or the environment, and the affected community cannot handle it alone...

Disaster response refers to the actions taken directly before, during, or immediately after a disaster. The objective is to save lives, ensure health and...

The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history. On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while...

A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event. Some examples of natural hazard events include avalanches...

The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in...

Due to damage from Katrina, 11 Florida counties were declared federal disaster areas. Hurricane Katrina's winds and storm surge reached the Mississippi coastline...

The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide...