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...

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

The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster, was a disaster that occurred on Wednesday, January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood...

(South Korea) and the 2024 Sinpyeong Rail Disaster (North Korea). The Red Cross was allowed into the area, in an unusual concession from the North Korean...

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

mission; the launch and subsequent disaster were seen live in many schools across the United States. The cause of the disaster was the failure of the primary...

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...