NationStates Jolt Archive

Ok, basic rules for the list, it a list of nations most crippling non-war related disasters. Floods, fires, earthquakes, nuclear meltdowns, explosions, and hurricanes, you get the idea. Please provide location, damadge caused, cost of repair and people killed.


Disasters:


AIR CRASHES




AVALANCE





FLOODS




FIRES




EARTHQUAKES



HURRICANES


TORNADO'S


NUCLEAR


TIDAL WAVES


LANDSLIDES


SPACE


FAMINE

DROUGHT

PLAUGES

OTHER/ MYSTERIOUS

TIDAL WAVE: 1930 A tidal wave struck the south islands of Aqua Anu, 5,000 died and 10,000 we're homless

HUURICANE: 1990 WORST REPORTED

OTHER/ MYSTERIOUS
Late 1963: Biological weapons factory explodes in rural Thergo killing 3,000 from a fire started in the missle bay, cause unknown.

HURRICANE
October 4, 2005: Hurricane Gordon hits Thergo as an extreamly powerful Catagory 5, casualties unknown

AIR CRASHES
September 6th, 1992: Flight #42 of ThergoInternational bound for Krakatowa[occ:another nation I own] crashes over the Thergoian island of Honu killing 246 and injuring 543. It was a new airliner and there was a serious malfunction in the automatic control system that caused it to kill the right wing turbine.

SPACE
December 9th 2001: The first Marxist State Space Shuttle Rebirth crashes 3 hours after launch do to an engine faliure

FIRES
October 3, 2005: Arsonist fire burns through The Iztav Hotel, the largest in the region, killing 210 and injuring 326

FAMINE
September 5th 2005-present: "Famine of the Evils" continues to affect the rural province of Exeter

DROUGHT September 5th, 2005-present: Causes the "Famine of the Evils"

PLAUGES Jan. 5th, 2005-August 20th, 2005: Ebola outbreak, casualties unknown.

do air crashes caused by terrorists count?

SPACE:
September 9th 2002: The Star 3 splits up during re-entry, 2 cosmonauts are killed.

OOC: You say non-war related, what about a plague caused by a biological weapon and, although the conflict is over, the plague still continues?

AIR CRASHES: October 9, 1989: AirNYC crashes enroute to Azullias from Isla Del Bosque Grande, killling all 126 aboard after slamming into the sea.

Floods: November 15, 1961: River Tadria floods the lower Calbian valley, killing 8 and costing millions of dollars in lost farm revenue

Hurricanes: August 22, 1858: The Great Storm of 1858 slams ashore near Southport, killing 5,200 and destroying 4/5ths of the buildings inside the city limits.

OTHER/MYSTERIOUS: May 4, 1994: 33 killed when the ferry Maxtopian Belle goes down in a storm.

The Great Mongoose Earthquake of 1823

A massive earthquake struck the island of Balker, killing 700 and doing $1million. It was blamed on mongooses, a large number of which had been delovered to the island, This increased the Balkerid reputation of foolishness, which is held by a majority of the empire.

Hurricane Mazdima: 1902

In the northern reaches of the empire, a horrible hurricane struck the Malos Halsuve(Archipelago), killing 10,000

The Waste Plague of 1878

a terrible outbreak of the bacterial Waste disease swept through the empire, killing a fourth of the population.

FIRES

Jan. 21st, 2005 - Chapel Street Fire, Melaias - 331 dead by fire; swept through apartment complex on 221 Voguat Park off Chapel before spreading through to 3 buildings; cause unknown. Repair cost undisclosed.


EARTHQUAKE

Jul. 20, 2005 - Tremors felt on east coast of mainland DCE, range from 1.7 [Mt. Izurmara Seismic Research Station] to 7.2 on richter scale. Oil platform off the coast badly damaged. No reported casualties, minor damage. BSR building collapses.


[B]OTHER/MYSTERIOUS

Jul. 20, 2005 - Oil platform off the coast of mainland DCE collapses, & catches fire. 23 platform workers killed in fire or blown off deck. Damage reaches 76 million fl. Damage on support legs showed signs of earthquake, heat, and intense wind damage. Caused by earthquake and other unknown events.

Jul. 20, 2005 - Bright flash reported to the southeast of mainland DCE, intense heat reported by witnesses from Melaias to Villa. Flash said to have originated on Virgil Island; island reportedly "gone" next day. Radiation relative to surroundings reported to be 1/3 higher than normal. Cause unknown.

OTHER/MYSTERIOUS: OCT-NOV 2005

Kurona became a shooting gallery for nature's wrath. Tornado's, flood, hurricanes, blizzards, lightning storms all seemingly unleashed unto Kurona. It isn't known exactly why or how, other than a giant storm stystem stood in place along an active get stream. Billions nearly Trillions of Kuromians worth of damage was done. Three nations gave imediate relife aid, and one came once things calmed down.

FAMINE

A result of the harsh weather resulted in sever food shortages. Fortunatley their wen't too many cases of starvation.

Hurricanes
•Hurricane Mundatus
•September 2, 1997
•4,716 deaths, 19,677 worldwide
•Winds up to 195 MPH, lowest central pressure ever recorded in the Barrow Sea (876 millibars at it's strongest, 879 at landfall)
•450 miles in diameter
•Landfall at Pointe Casere, 31 miles N of Veldaem (city on eastern coast)
•42 Billion USD in damage

TORNADOES
•Tornado Outbreak of 1981
•August 17, 1981
•Spawned from Hurricane Dacius
•308 confirmed tornadoes
•22 F3, 5 F4, 2 F5 tornadoes
•Near Kassvaline and Piscem, two southern cities
•199 deaths directly related to outbreak

Earthquakes
•Great Tarinholtz Earthquake (1942)
•Measured a strong 8.3 on richter scale, the epicenter 45 miles SSE of Tarinholtz, a major mountain city
•2.12 billion USD in damage, including fires caused by gas leaks
•6,034 dead, over 30,000 homeless

OOC: What about terrorist attacks that didn't result in a war, or plagues caused by biological weapons (Released by terrorists?)

AIR CRASHES
Flight 24, Flight 53, and Flight 09 of Krakatowa Liners crash on October 9th, 2005 killing roughly 400


FLOODS
The Hellfire Floods of 2003 (On January 2nd, July 18, August 30th, and December 9th) killed 2092


FIRES
Febuary 3rd, 2005 A small metorite sparks a forest fire that spreads to the town of Eminante and kills 786

January 9th, 2005 Fire started at a riot burns the Song Instatute of Higher Learning to the ground and kills over 1000.



EARTHQUAKES
December 21, 2005 An earthquake measuring 9.1 on the Richter magnitude scale hits near the capital at Gaia-Sai and kills an unknown hundreds of thousands.


NUCLEAR
September 4, 2005 Nuclear reactor failure at Yanara reactor kills 59,300.

OTHER/ MYSTERIOUS
Windows shatter at the Naraka Hotel killing 67. The cause of this is totally unkown.

OTHER/ MYSTERIOUS

Mysterious, unidentified sickness spread within the population in August 2005.
People just went crazy. They started to march on the streets shouting completely irrational sentencens about politics, and to disobey governmental orders to stay at home.

About 50,000 people had to be given a forced euthanasia (this mission was executed by SEJEM-security troops with the assistance of the Madnestian army), and even more to be put in isolation for several years, to stop the virus spreading.

I think this deserves a bump.

Typhoon

Typhoon caused massive flooding of islands that were once home to Fourhearts. The flooding wiped out all exsisting structures on the four Pacific Islands and the nation was forced to leave The Pacific. Fourhearts relocated to the region of Texas with 5 million people.

MYSTERIOUS PLAUGES

Location: New Roanoke Island, The People's Republic of Hurtful thoughts

Times: 1993-99, 2000-02, 2005, ongoing

Death tolls (unnofficial): 30 million, 50 million, 3 million

Synopsis: Since 1993, a mysterious ailment has affected the locals that inhabit New Roaboke Island. Involving compulsive bludgioning, mass riots, and vanishing corpses.

Some claimed they where terrorists actions, roits, a revolt against the mainland, food poisoinig, witchcraft, voodoo, alien invasion, military bio-weapons testing gone wrong, naturally occuring chronic disease, and raisning of the dead by some twisted individual.

Since 1993, New Roanoke Island was put under quarantine, only to be occupied by military personel. This ban was temporarily waivered to test airplanes.

'Blue' Meteor Strike of 1576
Incident: For unknown reasons, three skyscrapper sized meteors, along with at least a dozen car sized meteors struck Northern Droloon, turning the tyropical north into a frozen wasteland
Deaths: Unknown (est. 40,000-70,000)

'Great' Flood of 1901
Incident: Rained for several weeks, some say up to eight weeks, constantly for unknown reasons. Eventually all of Western Droloon was understand at least a foot of water.
Deaths: Unknown (est. 12,000-30,000)
Damage: Unknown (est. around 1 billion)

Avalanches

Yuande Avalanche of 1509
Incident: Due to an exceptionally snowy winter followed by a heatwave, the mountains around Yuande, long considered a danger due to the incline with which their upper portions had, caused numerous avalanches at roughly the same time. The entire town was destroyed, and the entire populace died, most due to starvation, as it took nearly four months for the snow to completely melt.
Deaths: 100,000+

The Big One )1958
Incident: The Lord's Claw, one of Antanjyl's largest mountains abruptly shook. There are no clear sources which can state what exactly happened, though the effect caused a massive avalanche which blanketed and covered dozens of small towns and the upper portions of the capital Antalia. Less than half were saved by the government's Agency.
Deaths: 400,000+
Damage: 23,500,000,000 USD

Blizzards

((Too many to mention, as almost every winter there is a potentially lethal blizzard taking place))

Mysterious/Other

The Landorin Massacre 1705
Incident: A large group of nearly two hundred children which had gone playing in the woods along with a few adults were mysteriouslly murdered. The wounds suggest that they were all killed via the use of swords, but the two survivors claimed the murders were done by monsters. However, there were no tracks found near the slayings indicate any military activity or animal tracks.
Deaths: 237
Damage: N/A

The Slave Tunnel Massacre(1884)
Incident: A group of slaves in one of Antanjyl's coal mines managed to hit a large passage underground. A single messenger was sent to report the findings to the government, but by the time the government sent an investigation team, everyone in the nearby tunnels were found dead. The bodies were crushed to death.
Deaths: 3,964
Damage: N/A

Global Warming Enduced Flood (GWEF) of 1989
Incident: Because of the ever growing global warming problem in the Arctic, caused by newly-industrialised Prussiatopia, the melting of the ice in the North Pole caused a huge flood (up to 6 stories worth of some buildings) to effect most of the Industrialised West-Coast of the Prussiatopian-Greenland landmass.
Deaths: 23.5 Million
Damage: Close enough to $1 Trillion USD (it damaged 8 major cities, and a big minor one with a pop. of 1,000,000). We also lost $200 Billion in trade.