Recent man made disasters

Hello sir I want to know the names of some recent man made disasters so please provide me information about these disasters.

[Pathak]

Disaster — noun — a sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life

The common disasters are tsunamis, earthquakes, typhoons, eruptions and climate changes.

Recent man made disasters

1. The Bhopal Gas Leak

In 1984, a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, resealed 30 metric tons of methyl isocyanite into the atmosphere.

Official death count by the Indian government is 3,787 bodies, however, unofficial records state 8,000 deaths or more tied to the disaster.

2. The Jilin Chemical Explosion

In November the thirteenth, 2005, a petrochemical plant in Jilin, China was the site of series of explosions.

Poor handling of the operating systems led to blasts which shattered windows up to 200 metres away.

3. The Tennesse Coal Ash Spill

Due to poor management, the mixture was stored in dangerously high amounts on the slope of a hill.

After a powerful rain storm, in 2008, the slurry gave weight and stormed down the hill in a massive landslide of mud and ash.

4. The Sidoarjo mud volcano

Despite mud is not directly toxic, it’s not edible or drinkable either.

The amounts released continue to contaminated the surrounding waters and affects thousands of near by inhabitants and wildlife.

5. The North Pacific Garbage Patch

In 1988, scientists predicted the garbage thrown off in the ocean will ultimately converge in one of these gyres and create a huge patch of waste floating in circles forever.

6. The Gulf War Spill

As a direct result of human idiocy, 720 thousand cubic metres were spilled into the Persian Gulf during the war.

7. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

on April, the twentieth, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the sea.

This left the drill hole completely open and petrol began to blow out directly into the waters, much like a gun wound in the chest.

8. The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

The Exxon Valdez oil tanker was on a course for Long Beach, California in 1989, before it struck the shore around midnight local time.

The reason was a tired and insufficient crew which led to one of the world’s biggest contamination disasters for all times

9. The Guiyu E-Waste Dump In China

The Guiyu dump in China is the biggest e-waste landfill in the world.

A total of 52 square kilometres of land is buried in iPhones, Galaxy S4s and other famous electronic devices.

10. The Baia Mare Water Cyanide Contamination

A total of 100 thousand cubic metres is toxic water, in which resided 100 tons of cyanide spilled over the near by farmlands and made it’s way into the Somes river.

From there, it travelled across many European rivers and ultimately ended up in Danube river.

The spill killed 80% of all life in the Serbian section of the Tisza.

11. Chernobyl

Chernobyl used to be a nuclear power plant near Pripryat, Ukraine.

In 1986, an explosion, caused by poor management, cracked open one of the plant’s nuclear reactors and leaked large quantities of radio active particles into the atmosphere.

12. London’s Great Smog

The winter of ‘52 was a cold one for Londoners.

At the time, people heated their homes with mainly coal powered heaters.

Naturally, the consumption increased to battle the chills. It wouldn’t have been a problem if there wasn’t an anticyclone right on top of the city which collected the burned pollutants and smoke, and formed a thick layer of smog over the entire city.

13. The Minamata Disease

The Minamata disease was discovered in the mid twentieth century in Minamata Bay, Japan, hence the name.

It’s a neurological degradation, caused by organic mercury poisoning.

14. The Libby Montana Asbestos Contamination

The toxic material was one of the by-products of the mines and plant operations.

As a result, it was constantly pumped out of the industrial chimneys and continued to cover the town until 1990, when the mine was closed.

15. The Love Canal Toxic Landfill

The Love Canal is a neighbourhood in Niagara Falls, New York.

At the time of landscaping the area, the land belonged to Hooker Chemical, which used it to bury their toxic waste. However, an economic boom called for drastic expansion of the area.