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