Types of Disasters

Agricultural Industrial Nuclear Oil Spills Exxon Valdez Walkerton Water Tragedy Bhopal / Union Carbide Aral Sea Al-Hawizeh Marshes Minamata Seveso Dioxin Crisis Chernobyl Three Mile Island Sydney Tar Ponds Torrey Canyon Piper Alpha Amoco Cadiz Hiroshima Kuwaiti Fires Warfare Other Love Canal Depletion of Ozone Baia Mare Cyanide Spill London Smog Disaster Hagersville Fire

Breakdown of Disasters
Disaster
Love Canal Walkerton Water Tragedy Exxon Valdez

Date/Place
Mid-70's, Niagara Falls, New York May 2000, Walkerton, Ontario Mar 24 1989, Prince William Sound, Alaska Dec 3 1984, Bhopal, India Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Aug 6, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan Apr 26 1986, Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR Kuwait, Iraq, 1991

Category
Other Industrial Oil Spill

Brief Description
Chemical buried underneath community. E. coli in water, 5000 people affected. Exxon Valdez oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California struck Bligh Reef and spilled 750,000 barrels of crude oil. Gas released from Union Carbide plant, a total of 3,787 deaths related to gas release. Hazardous waste site on Cape Breton Island Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II Nuclear power plant meltdown.

Bhopal Union Carbide Sydney Tar Ponds Hiroshima Chernobyl

Industrial

Oil Spill Warfare Nuclear

Warfare

Kuwaiti Fires

Iraqi military forces set fire to 600 oil wells while retreating from Kuwait.

Disaster
Depletion of the Ozone Torrey Canyon

Date/Place
Starts in late-70'a 1967, southwest UK Russia

Category
Other Oil spill Agriculture

Brief Description
Ozone in earth's stratosphere decreasing. "Ozone holes" UK's worst oil spill, 32 million gallons of crude oil spilled. Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world, the Aral Sea has been steadily shin king since the 1960s. Vanishing marshes Release of methyl mercury in waste water bioaccumulated in shellfish in Minamata Bay, which were eaten by local population. Exposure of the chemical tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in residential areas. Water polluted with cyanide, killed large numbers of fish in Hungary and Yugoslavia. "The Great Smog of '52" - Air pollution from coal, formed a thick layer of smog over the city. Tire fire Oil and gas fire destroyed Piper Alpha, 167 dead, only 61 survivors. Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Oil tanker split in three.

Aral Sea Al-Hawizeh Marsh Minamata Iraq/Iran border Minamata, Japan, 1956 Agriculture Industrial

Seveso Dioxin Crisis Baia Mare Cyanide Spill London Smog Disaster Hagersville Fire Piper Alpha Three Mile Island Amoco Cadiz

Jul 10 1976, Milan, Italy 2000, Baia Mare, Romania Dec 1952, London

Industrial

Other

Other

1990, Hagersville, Ontario Jul 6 1988, North Sea Mar 28 1979 Mar 16 1978

Other Oil Spill

Nuclear Oil Spill