The 100 greatest disasters of all time
By: Stephen J. Spignesi.
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Disasters.; Natural disasters.
Other titles: One hundred greatest disasters of all time
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Black Death; title: Great Influenza Epidemic; title: Worldwide AIDS epidemic; title: 1876 China famine; title: Fourteenth-Century China drought, famine, and epidemic; title: 1896 India drought, famine, and disease disaster; title: 1932 Ukraine famine; title: 1921 Ukraine famine; title: 1520 Mexico Smallpox Epidemic; title: English sweating sickness; title: Yellow River and Yangtze River floods; title: Irish Potato Famine; title: 1970 Bangladesh cyclone; title: 1556 Great China earthquake; title: 1976 Tangshan, China, earthquake; title: 1891 Russia famine; title: Plague of Justinian; title: 526 Antioch, Syria, earthquake; title: 1920 Gansu, China, earthquake; title: 1908 Messina, Sicily, earthquake; title: Great Kanto earthquake; title: 1815 eruption of Tambora and the Year without a summer; title: 1864 Calcutta cyclone; title: 1970 Peru earthquake and landslide; title: 1988 Armenia earthquake; title: 1755 Lisbon, Portugal, earthquake; title: 1939 Erzincan, Turkey, earthquake; title: 1990 Iran earthquake and landslide; title: Eruption of Mount Pelee; title: Eruption of Mount Krakatoa; title: 1999 Izmit, Turkey, earthquake; title: Great Hurricane of 1780; title: 1896 Japanese Tsunami; title: 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius; title: Hurricane Mitch; title: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; title: Hurricane Fifi; title: Galveston Hurricane; title: London Killer Fog of 1952; title: 1928 West Indies and Lake Okeechobee Hurricane; title: 1995 Kobe earthquake; title: 1897 collision of the Dona Paz and the Vector; title: 1856 Rhodes Church explosion; title: Bhopal Chemical leak; title: 1906 San Francisco earthquake; title: September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks; title: Johnstown Flood; title: 1917 Mont Blanc explosion; title: The sinking of the Sultana; title: Sinking of the Titanic; title: Great Chicago Fire and Peshtigo Forrest Fire; title: Sinking of the Toya Maru; title: 1906 Courrieres Mine Explosion; title: Sinking of the Empress of Ireland; title: Fire on the General Slocum; title: 1988 New York City Blizzard; title: Tristate tornadoes; title: 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire; title: Hurricane Georges; title: Great New England Hurricane of 1938; title: 1977 Tenerife Runaway Collision; title: 1947 Texas City Harbor Explosion; title: 1944 Italy Train Tunnel Suffocation Disaster; title: 1985 Japan Air Lines Flight 123 Crash; title: 1942 Coconut Grove Fire; title: 2002 Egyptian Train Fire; title: 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster; title: 1996 Saudi-Kazak Midair Collision; title: 1974 Turkish Airlines DC-10 Crash; title: L'Innovation Department Store Fire; title: 1974 Midwestern tornadoes; title: 1964 Lima soccer riot; title: 1979 American Airlines DC-10 Crash; title: 1988 Pam Am Lockerbie bombing; title: 1985 Stava Dam Failure; title: Crash of Flight 800; title: Quintinshill Rail Crash; title: 1966 Florence Art Flood; title: Oklahoma City Bombing; title: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Fire; title: Triangle Factory Fire; title: 1934 Fire on the Morro Castle; title: Winecoff Hotel Fire; title: 1981 Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse; title: Great Nashville Train Wreck; title: Hurricane Andrew; title: 1989 San Francisco Earthquake; title: 1993 U.S. Midwest Floods; title: Hurricane Hugo; title: Explosion of the Hindenburg; title: 1991 Oakland Hills Fires; title: Great London Fire of 1666; title: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill; title: Dust Bowl; title: 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident; title: 1929 U.S. Stock Market Crash; title: Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion; title: Apollo 1 Fire; title: 1851 Library of Congress Fire.