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"...

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

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

The Kyshtym disaster, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that...

Derailment (South Korea) and the Dancheon train disaster (North Korea). The Red Cross was allowed into the area, in an unusual concession from the North Korean...

tropical cyclone ever recorded and one of the world's deadliest humanitarian disasters. At least 300,000 people died in the storm, possibly as many as 500,000...

[email protected] (13 January 2005). "Death toll in Asian tsunami disaster tops 159,000". People's Daily. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011...