DEADLIEST - DISASTER

DISASTER

A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functions of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses.

TYPES :

•  NATURAL DISASTER
•  MAN MADE DISASTER
•  NUCLEAR DISASTER

 NATURAL DISASTER

  Daulatpur – Saturia Tornado

    It  is happened on 26^th  April 1989 it produced winds between 111 and 217 miles per hour and it tore through central Bangladesh’s monotones district .It destroyed   everything in its path including crops trees and structures and home more than 80000 people were left without homes 12000 were injured  and 1300 lost their lives .It is one of the worst tornadoes on record .

                                     

   PESHITGO FIRE

     It caused 200 million dollar worth of damage took 300 people from the earth  and burned thousand of structures to the ground . Well the Peshitgo fire across the Wisconsin and Michigan claimed 1200- 2500  lives and burnt 4 million acres cost ,millions in damages and it happened as the great Chicago fire .                                                  

       

   MANMADE DISASTER:

EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL:

 It happened on 24^th March 1989 ,Exxon owned oil tanker called the Exxon Valdez struck Blyth off the coast of Alaska  just after midnight , the collision occurred in Prince William Sound a remote area nearly inaccessible to emergency response  crews in this day that followed 10.8 millions in US gallons of crude oil poured into the sea . Wildlife in this area strongly affected with 100-1000 of birds and mammals died and the effect on sea life not even calculated decades later the fauna of the area is still impacted by this environmental catastrophe.                                           

                    

BOPAL GAS TRADEGY :

   In December 1994 a gas leak at the Union Carbide India Ltd pesticide plant in Bhopal, India  exposed over 500,000 people to methyl isocyanate and other dangerous chemicals . Number of fatalities resulting from the incident has been muted with total ranging from 4000-16000 . Either way the death tolls make this the number one most deadly industrial human history . Groundwater found near the site of the world worst chemical industrial accident in Bhopal is still toxic and poisoning residents a quarter of a century.                                                 

 

NUCLEAR DISASTER :

CHERNOBYL:

                     It is one of most widely known published nuclear disaster was Chernobyl in 1986 and explosion at the Ukraine’s Power plant emitted radioactive particles into the atmosphere and it started spreading towards Western Europe, only 31 people died from the blast but the country suffered heavily . The damage done by the explosion is 4 times higher then the atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima . The Chernobyl disaster received so much exposure due to the surrounding settlement around the power plant with new homes stores, hospitals and even in the amusement park. This disaster caused the entire population to pick up immediately leave everything behind and resettle making the area today appear like a creepy ghost town where people simply disappeared .

                                              

                                               

HIROSHIMA :

              In August 1945 the United States dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan ,killing 1 lakh 35 thousand people mostly civilians .The devastation and fallout also lead to several health problems for survivors and their children and decimated civilian communities. It was first nuclear weapon dropped on humans it was an attack during the World War-II and there was no warning given before , carried by a B-29 war plane . The bomb was dropped from about 31,000 feet and fell for 43 seconds and it exploded about 1900 feet off the ground . Inside the bomb a controlled explosion created with high explosive propelled a subcritical mass of uranium-235.