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πŸ”— Mediterranean tropical like Storm Daniel

πŸ”— Disaster management πŸ”— Africa πŸ”— Greece πŸ”— Turkey πŸ”— Bulgaria πŸ”— Africa/Libya πŸ”— Weather πŸ”— Weather/Non-tropical storms πŸ”— Weather/Floods πŸ”— Weather/Weather πŸ”— Africa/Egypt πŸ”— Weather/Tropical cyclones

Storm Daniel, also known as Cyclone Daniel, was the deadliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone ever recorded as well as the deadliest weather event during 2023. It caused catastrophic damage in Libya and also affected parts of southeastern Europe. Forming as a low-pressure system around 4Β September 2023, the storm affected Greece, Bulgaria and also Turkey with extensive flooding. The storm then organized as a Mediterranean Low and was designated as Storm Daniel, in which it soon acquired quasi-tropical characteristics (TLC) and moved toward the coast of Libya, where it caused catastrophic flooding before degenerating into a remnant low. The storm was the result of an Omega block, as a high-pressure zone became sandwiched between two zones of low pressure, the isobars shaping a Greek letter Ξ©.

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πŸ”— 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash

πŸ”— United States πŸ”— United States/North Carolina πŸ”— Aviation πŸ”— Military history πŸ”— Disaster management πŸ”— Military history/Military aviation πŸ”— Military history/North American military history πŸ”— Military history/United States military history πŸ”— United States/Military history - U.S. military history πŸ”— Aviation/Aviation accident πŸ”— Military history/Military science, technology, and theory πŸ”— Military history/Weaponry

The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, on 23 January 1961. A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3–4-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot in command, Walter Scott Tulloch, ordered the crew to eject at 9,000 feet (2,700Β m). Five crewmen successfully ejected or bailed out of the aircraft and landed safely, another ejected, but did not survive the landing, and two died in the crash. Information declassified in 2013 showed that one of the bombs came very close to detonating.

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πŸ”— Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse

πŸ”— Disaster management πŸ”— Death πŸ”— Kansas City πŸ”— Missouri

On July 17, 1981, two walkways collapsed at the Hyatt Regency Kansas City hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, one directly above the other. They crashed onto a tea dance being held in the hotel's lobby, killing 114 and injuring 216. As a product of a corporate culture of profound neglect, the disaster contributed many lessons to the study of engineering ethics and errors, and to emergency management. The event remains the deadliest non‑deliberate structural failure in American history, and it was the deadliest structural collapse in the U.S. until the collapse of the World Trade Center towers 20 years later.

πŸ”— 1997 Lego Spill

πŸ”— Environment πŸ”— Disaster management πŸ”— Lego πŸ”— Cornwall

A maritime incident occurred on 13 February 1997 when a rogue wave struck the German-registered container ship Tokio Express off the coast of Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom, causing 62 containers to fall overboard. One container held approximately 4.8 million Lego pieces, primarily from sea-themed sets such as Lego Aquazone and Lego Pirates. The spilled pieces have washed ashore on coastlines across the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, and as far as Australia, becoming a cultural phenomenon and an unintentional case study in ocean currents and marine plastic pollution.

πŸ”— R v Dudley and Stephens – British murder case of 1884

πŸ”— Disaster management πŸ”— Crime πŸ”— Law πŸ”— England

R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273 DC is a leading English criminal case which established a precedent throughout the common law world that necessity is not a defence to a charge of murder. It concerned survival cannibalism following a shipwreck and its purported justification on the basis of a custom of the sea. It marked the culmination of a long history of attempts by the law, in the face of public opinion sympathetic to castaways, to outlaw the custom and it became something of a cause célèbre in Victorian Britain.

Dudley and Stephens were shipwrecked along with two other men. When one of them, the cabin boy Richard Parker, fell into a coma, Dudley and Stephens decided to kill him for food.

πŸ”— The Tunguska Event

πŸ”— Soviet Union πŸ”— Russia πŸ”— Disaster management πŸ”— Skepticism πŸ”— Astronomy πŸ”— Russia/science and education in Russia πŸ”— Geology πŸ”— Russia/physical geography of Russia πŸ”— Russia/history of Russia πŸ”— Paranormal

The Tunguska event was a massive ~12 megaton explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of June 30, 1908. The explosion over the sparsely populated Eastern Siberian Taiga flattened an estimated 80Β million trees over an area of 2,150Β km2 (830Β sqΒ mi) of forest, and eyewitness reports suggest that at least three people may have died in the event. The explosion is generally attributed to the air burst of a stony meteoroid about 50–60 metres (160–200 feet) in size.:β€Šp. 178β€Š The meteoroid approached from the east-southeast, and likely with a relatively high speed of about 27 km/s. It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact crater has been found; the object is thought to have disintegrated at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometres (3 to 6 miles) rather than to have hit the surface of the Earth.

The Tunguska event is the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, though much larger impacts have occurred in prehistoric times. An explosion of this magnitude would be capable of destroying a large metropolitan area. It has been mentioned numerous times in popular culture, and has also inspired real-world discussion of asteroid impact avoidance.

πŸ”— Syrian Air Flight 9218

πŸ”— Aviation πŸ”— Disaster management πŸ”— Aviation/Aviation accident πŸ”— Syria

Syrian Air Flight 9218 was a cargo flight operated by Syrian Air that disappeared from flight tracking near Homs while flying out of Damascus International Airport on December 8, 2024.

πŸ”— Pandemic

πŸ”— International relations πŸ”— Disaster management πŸ”— Medicine πŸ”— Death

A pandemic (from Greek Ο€αΎΆΞ½ pan "all" and Ξ΄αΏ†ΞΌΞΏΟ‚ demos "people") is a disease epidemic that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents, or worldwide. A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of infected people is not a pandemic. Further, flu pandemics generally exclude recurrences of seasonal flu.

Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics of diseases such as smallpox and tuberculosis. One of the most devastating pandemics was the Black Death (also known as The Plague), which killed an estimated 75–200 million people in the 14th century. Other notable pandemics include the 1918 influenza pandemic (Spanish flu) and the 2009 flu pandemic (H1N1). Current pandemics include HIV/AIDS and the 2019 coronavirus disease, which was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO).