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Rail

2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck

On 26 December 2004, a crowded passenger train (#50 Matara Express) was destroyed on a coastal railway in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka.
Lives lost
900 to 1,700 deaths.
Date
26 December 2004
Location
Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka
Runtime
32 min
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Natural

2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake And Tsunami

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was a catastrophic natural disaster triggered by a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake on December 26, 2004, off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Lives lost
227,898
Date
Dec 2004
Location
150 miles from the coast of Sumatra Island
Runtime
104 min
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Deep Water Horizon
Industrial

Deep Water Horizon

The Deepwater Horizon disaster was a catastrophic explosion and massive marine oil spill that began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lives lost
11
Date
April 2010
Location
Gulf Of Mexico
Runtime
91 min
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Piper Alpha
Industrial

[Sample] Piper Alpha

The 1988 North Sea platform explosion that killed 167 men and rewrote offshore safety regulation.
Lives lost
167
Date
Jul 1988
Location
North Sea, UK
Runtime
42 min
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Tenerife Airport Diasaster
Aviation

[Sample] Tenerife airport disaster

How two 747s collided in fog at Los Rodeos in 1977, and the changes that followed the deadliest accident in aviation history.
Lives lost
583
Date
Mar 1977
Location
Tenerife, Spain
Runtime
45 min
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Chenobyl
Nuclear

Chernobyl disaster

The 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl, how it happened, and what it changed for nuclear safety.
Lives lost
31 direct; est. 4,000+
Date
Apr 1986
Location
Pripyat, Ukraine
Runtime
48 min
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Industrial

The Bhopal Gas Disaster Explained | The Night a City Couldn't Breathe

The 1984 methyl isocyanate leak in Bhopal, India, and why it became the worst industrial disaster in history.
Lives lost
3,800+
Date
Dec 1984
Location
Bhopal, India
Runtime
44 min
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