Events with a large anthropogenic death toll not fitting any of the above classifications. May include deaths caused by famine, genocide, etc. as a portion of the total.Lowestestimate Highestestimate ...
This section lists deaths from the systematic practice of human sacrifice or suicide. For notable individual episodes, see Human sacrifice and mass suicide.Lowest estimate Highest estimate Description ...
Main articles: Flood, List of floods, List of deadliest floods, List of natural disasters#Floods and landslides, Landslide, and List of landslidesNote: These floods and landslides will have been parti ...
Main articles: Famine and List of faminesNote: Some of these famines were partially caused by nature.This section includes famines that were caused or exacerbated by the policies or actions of the rul ...
Main article: List of genocides by death tollGenocides with at least a million fatalities in the high estimate category are shown here. The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment o ...
Main article: List of wars by death tollThese figures of one million or more deaths include the deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, etc., as well as deaths of soldiers in battle and massacres a ...
This is a list of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll. It covers the lowest estimate of death as well as the highest estimate, the name of the event, the location, and the start and end of ...
Researchers have been studying disasters for more than a century, and for more than forty years disaster research. The studies reflect a common opinion when they argue that all disasters can be seen a ...
The word disaster is derived from Middle French désastre and that from Old Italian disastro, which in turn comes from the Greek pejorative prefix δυσ-, (dus-) "bad" + ?στ?ρ (aster), "star". T ...
A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the env ...
