Category:Disasters and accidents

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• [×] 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami‎ (61 articles)
• [×] 2010 Chile earthquake‎ (38 articles)
• [×] 2010 Copiapó mining accident‎ (7 articles)
• [×] 2010 Haiti earthquake‎ (27 articles)
• [×] 2010 Pichilemu earthquake‎ (29 articles)
• [×] 2011 England riots‎ (4 articles)
• [×] 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami‎ (30 articles)

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• [×] Air France Flight 447‎ (16 articles)

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• [×] Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion‎ (30 articles)

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• [+] Earthquakes‎ (276 articles; 4 subcategories)

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• [+] Fires‎ (306 articles; 1 subcategory)
• [×] Floods‎ (50 articles)

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• [×] Helios Airways Flight 522‎ (6 articles)
• [+] Hurricane‎ (15 articles; 7 subcategories)
• [×] Hurricane Isaac‎ (0 articles)
• [×] Hurricane Sandy (2012)‎ (1 article)

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• [×] Katrina-displaced students‎ (3 articles)

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• [×] Lockerbie bombing‎ (11 articles)

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• [×] Missing persons‎ (15 articles)

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• [+] Natural disasters‎ (118 articles; 3 subcategories)

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• [×] New Orleans Disaster‎ (44 articles)
• [×] Nuclear accidents‎ (18 articles)

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• [×] Tornadoes‎ (26 articles)
• [+] Tropical cyclones‎ (18 articles; 2 subcategories)
• [+] Tsunamis‎ (25 articles; 2 subcategories)
• [×] Typhoon Ketsana‎ (4 articles)

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• [+] Volcano‎ (29 articles; 1 subcategory)

W

• [×] Western Australian gas crisis‎ (6 articles)

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• "Black box" found near crash site of Ethiopian Airlines flight
• "Darfur a powder keg" says UN Head of Humanitarian Affairs
• "Friday the 13" Buffalo, New York snow storm in pictures
• "Massive" oil spill in Alaska
• "Super typhoon" triggers fatal mudslides in Philippines
• "Toxic soup" scenario in New Orleans unlikely

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• $200,000 reward for information on Perth arsonist

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• 'Black box' found near crash site of Airblue flight
• 'Black boxes' pulled from Air India plane wreckage
• 'Brakes failed': fourteen killed in Guatemala bus crash
• 'Critical safety issue' with A380 engines
• 'Crown Fire' forces residents in Southern California to evacuate homes
• 'Explosive' Haitian cholera outbreak kills 292, neighboring countries prepare
• 'Unacceptable' and 'without foundation': Poland rejects Russian air crash report

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• 1 dead, 13 injured in Dublin bus pursuit
• 1,000+ of Saudi Arabia's guest workers feared drowned
• 1,000,000 flee homes in California due to wildfires; over 500,000 ordered to evacuate
• 1,100 evacuated due to massive Halifax brush fire
• 1.4 million in China flee deadly storm
• 10 American soldiers killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan
• 10 arrested over Ugandan school fire as death toll reaches 20
• 10 years on Diana, Princess of Wales remembered
• 11 dead after snow storms in US
• 11 killed in Mexican military helicopter crash
• 11,000 evacuated in Indonesia as Mount Merapi threatens to erupt
• 12 coal miners are found dead, 1 in critical condition, in West Virginia mine
• 12 dead following police raid of Mexican night club
• 12 hurt in San Luis de La Balsa tourist bus accident
• 12 injured after van carrying church group flips over on Buffalo, NY expressway
• 12-year-old girl dies after collapsing in school in Northamptonshire, England
• 13 coal miners trapped in West Virginia mine
• 13 dead as cargo plane crashes in Congo
• 13 die in two aircraft accidents in Russia
• 13 missing from ship off coast of Madagascar; two rescued
• 13 people killed in Peru plane crash; passengers expressed fears prior to flying
• 13 U.S. soldiers killed in helicopter crash
• 13-year-old shot dead by Brazilian police in mock-up of hijacking situation
• 130 dead after torrential rains in India
• 14 killed by bushfires in Australia
• 14 killed in Russian bus-truck collision
• 14 people injured after bus overturns in heavy rain near Quebec City
• 14 US soldiers dead after helicopter crash in Iraq
• 15 killed and 22 injured after fire in Chinese bar
• 15 killed, 30 injured attempting to steal fuel from train in India
• 16 dead after U.S. helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
• 16-year-old arrested over alleged plot to hijack US airliner
• 168-centimetre water main breaks near Washington D.C.
• 17 killed after Cambodian ferry capsizes
• 170 workers trapped in Chinese mine after explosion
• 1700 runners still unaccounted for in UK's Lake District following flood
• 18 dead after multiple twisters strike US Midwest
• 18 hospitalized after gas attack in school in Valga, Estonia
• 18 illegal Afghan and Burmese immigrants killed in truck crash in Turkey
• 18 Motorcyclists killed during Bike Week
• 190 dead in Ethiopia floods

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• 2,000 homeless after 4-hectare fire in Bislig City, Philippines
• 2,000 stranded in Machu Picchu, Peru after torrential rains
• 2-year-old dies in car in 100ºF heat with windows rolled up
• 20 dead in Hyderabad, India flyover collapse
• 20 dead, seventeen trapped after Chinese coal mine explosion
• 20 killed and over 40 missing as overcrowded bus crashes into Nepal river
• 20 people injured after stand collapse in the Carnival of Blacks and Whites in Colombia
• 20 years on: Lockerbie victims' group head talks to Wikinews
• 20 years on: Sioux City, Iowa remembers crash landing that killed 111
• 2007 Darwin Award winners announced
• 2007 was particularly good year for aviation safety
• 2008-09-21: CCTV footage shows bombing of Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan

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• 21 people killed and 113 reported injured in three blasts in Mumbai
• 22 killed after bus falls into gorge in northern India
• 22 killed as heavy rain hits Panzhihua, China
• 23 killed, 36 injured by stampede at Sudanese stadium
• 24 error messages sent by Flight 447
• 24 people rescued from roller coaster at California's Great America theme park
• 25 dead after fire in Chinese coal mine
• 25 dead after mine explosion in West Virginia
• 25 drown as van plunges into Krishna river in India
• 25 killed and 33 injured as explosion rips through Chinese karaoke bar
• 25 killed as bus crashes into river gorge in Kashmir, Pakistan
• 26 killed after mine accident in China
• 26 motorbikes, two cars pile up in Oregon, US
• 27 believed dead in Indonesian plane crash
• 27 killed in Southwest China bus fire
• 29 killed in Algerian floods
• 29 presumed dead after second explosion at New Zealand mine

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• 3 dead, 4 missing after Vietnamese cargo ship sinks in South China Sea
• 30 civillians killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
• 30 dead in Baghdad bomb blasts, hundreds of people injured
• 30 dead in Spain metro crash
• 30 people die in bombing in northwestern Pakistan
• 30 travelers from Rwanda die in Ugandan bus crash
• 300 Vietnamese fishermen rescued after record China typhoon
• 3000 homeless after fire breaks out in Chad refugee camp
• 31 die in Mexico jail violence
• 31 killed in Afghanistan bus bombing
• 33 killed by firecracker blaze in India
• 351 dead after Burma cyclone
• 38 killed after US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
• 38 miners killed in Russian mine explosion
• 38 people die in suicide attack during political rally in Pakistan

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• 4 injured when bus overturns in Charlotte, NC
• 4-year-old boy killed by dog in Liverpool, England
• 4.3 magnitude earthquake strikes the San Francisco region
• 400 Survivors rescued from ferry disaster
• 41 killed by suicide bombing near Pakistan's Swat valley
• 44 dead and over 300,000 homeless after flooding in Brazil
• 45 feared dead in Pakistan air crash
• 46 illegal Afghan immigrants suffocate in truck in Pakistan
• 46-passenger Venezuelan plane reported missing
• 48 whales beached in New Zealand
• 49 dead after Comair regional jet crashes in Kentucky

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• 5 killed as bus from New York City to Montreal crashes
• 5 killed in Kentucky coal mine explosion
• 5 killed in return bus trip from marching band competition
• 5 killed, 255 rescued as ferry catches fire in Philippines
• 5 killed, 35 injured in train crash in Israel
• 5.1 earthquake hits north of Tokyo
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake rocks Hawaii hours before expected hurricane
• 5.6 earthquake strikes California
• 5.6-magnitude aftershock earthquake strikes Italy
• 5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Peru
• 5.8 magnitude earthquake rocks San Diego and northern Mexico
• 5.9 magnitude aftershock strikes Lolol, Chile area
• 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Pichilemu, Chile revives fears of new tragedy
• 50 dead after ferry in Myanmar capsizes
• 50,000 people refuse evacuation after flooding in India caused by river changing course
• 500 stranded melon-headed whales rescued in Philippine bay
• 51 killed in Yemen election rally stampede
• 54 killed, 20 injured in Tanzanian bus crash
• 55 people die in Casablanca mattress factory fire

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• 6-year-old boy in Colorado found alive, unhurt after runaway balloon allegedly carried him away
• 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocks eastern Turkey
• 6.1 magnitude aftershock earthquake hits Haiti
• 6.2 earthquake reported in Solomon Islands
• 6.2 magnitude aftershock provokes panic in southern Chile

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• 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits northern Chile
• 6.3 magnitude quake strikes Papua New Guinea
• 6.4 earthquake shakes Indonesia
• 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Chile
• 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia
• 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Iran
• 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Taiwan
• 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocks Andaman Islands
• 6.5 magnitude aftershock hits Bío Bío, Chile
• 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits Acre, Brazil
• 6.7 magnitude quake shakes Hawaii
• 6.8 earthquake rocks northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea
• 6.8 earthquake strikes off coast of Colombia
• 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits western China
• 60 reported dead in Congo train crash
• 60 vehicle pile-up kills one, injures 30 in Austria

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• 7 killed, 50 injured in Bangladesh shopping mall fire
• 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off Haitian coast
• 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off Japanese coast
• 7.1 earthquake strikes Indonesia
• 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Fiji
• 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Araucanía, Chile; no tsunami warning
• 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia
• 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Mariana Islands
• 7.2 quake rattles lower Colorado River area in Mexico
• 7.4 earthquake strikes Bonin Islands in Japan
• 7.4 magnitude hits Pacific near New Zealand
• 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes near Tonga, tsunami generated
• 70 killed after tanker explosion in Nigeria
• 77 dead after flooding in Saudi Arabia

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• 8 dead following road collision in New Brunswick, Canada
• 8.0 magnitude earthquake occurs near Tonga
• 8.8 magnitude earthquake hits Chile; tsunami warnings issued throughout Pacific rim
• 8.9 magnitude earthquake hits Japan, causes tsunami
• 85 Hindu pilgrims killed in India lorry crash
• 85 rescued, thousands feared dead in Philippine landslide

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• 9,000 gallons of liquid butane spilled as tanker truck overturns
• 93-year-old Michigan man freezes to death after electric company limits his power usage

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• A 5.6 Richter quake hits Western Montana
• A false quake warning in Japan exposes problems for practical use
• A leak at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility on Cumbrian coast, England
• A380 collides with regional jet at JFK airport
• Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi moves to drop Lockerbie bombing appeal
• Abhisit Vejjajiva administration on brink of collapse
• Abused girl in Arizona found with 100 wounds
• Accident at Russian hydroelectric plant kills ten
• Accident in Jacksonville, Florida, releases low-radioactive gas
• Accident on set of British television program Heartbeat
• Accidental explosion occurs in Israel
• Actor George Clooney injured in motorcycle accident
• Actor Ryan Thomas involved in car crash in Manchester, England
• Adam Air hits severe financial problems; may be shut down in three weeks
• Adam Air may be shut down after string of accidents
• Adam Air strikes deal with salvage firm to retrieve black boxes of crashed airliner
• Adam Air ticket sales revive after post-crash slump
• Additional damage to reservoir prompts evacuation of Kolontar, Hungary
• Adrian dissipates, producing heavy rains and mudslides
• Adventurer Steve Fossett missing
• Aerial collision over Austria kills 8
• Aerosmith cancel remaining tour dates after on stage accident
• Afghan attack kills five Canadians
• Afghan Member of Parliament escapes assasination attempt
• Afghanistan suicide attack wounds more than twenty
• Afghanistan suicide bomb leaves seven Americans dead
• Afghanistan: Suicide attackers kill several people in Kabul
• Afghans riot after civilians die in crash