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	List of disasters in Australia by death toll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of disasters in Australia sorted by death toll.
		The death toll of 125 does not include the mutineers, of whom 7 were immediately hung and 2 were cast away when Captain Pelsaert returned.
		Cyclone destroys city of Darwin On 17 March 2005, a Northern Territory Coroner's Inquest outcome increased the official death toll from 65 to 71.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_disasters_in_Australia_by_death_toll (1026 words)

	List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which occurred in the United Kingdom or involved UK citizens, in a definable incident, where the loss of life exceeded 40.
		List of wars and disasters by death toll (worldwide)
		List of British rail accidents by death toll
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_disasters_by_death_toll (2691 words)

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		Australia is an island continent extending from approximately 10 degrees to 45 degrees South in latitude and is subject to harsh extremes of climate.
		It is a land that, because of its climate, physical geography, vegetation and patterns of human settlement along rivers, coasts and across marginal agricultural land, is prone to a range of meteorological, geological and biological hazards, including tropical cyclone, storm surge, bushfire, flood, severe storm, earthquake and landslide.
		Since European settlement in Australia in 1788, the most deaths from a natural hazard have been as a result of several heatwaves and the most costly hazards in total estimated economic terms have been drought and flood, although the most costly events were the Newcastle earthquake in 1989 and Cyclone Tracy at Darwin in 1974.
	www.geocities.com /geography_course/aus_hazards/aus_hazards.html (1301 words)

	Epidemics threaten to double the death toll - Asia Tsunami - www.smh.com.au
		The tens of thousands killed by the tsunami which devastated South-East Asia could be eclipsed by the death toll from the resulting epidemics unless the unprecedented humanitarian challenge now in front of the world is met.
		The speed and scale of the disaster pose huge challenges for the relief effort, as does the remoteness of some of the stricken areas.
		The disaster is not the biggest in terms of how many people have died, the death toll falling well short of the 255,000 who died in the Tangshan quake in China in 1976, but its sheer spread will stretch aid agencies to the fullest.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/Epidemics-threaten-to-double-the-death-toll/2004/12/27/1103996501063.html (888 words)

	Disaster death toll soared in 2004 - Breaking News - World - Breaking News
		The death toll from natural disasters soared in 2004 to around 250,000, three times the 2003 figure and 10 times the 2002 figure.
		The 719 reported disasters in 2004 was the third highest of the decade.
		During the five-year period from 2000-2004 the average annual number of disasters was 55 per cent higher than in the previous period.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/Disaster-death-toll-soared-in-2004/2005/10/05/1128191753883.html (335 words)

	Global Disaster Watch - Natural Disasters
		All of the deaths were reported in Missouri, where hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed over the weekend.
		AUSTRALIA - Cairns was mopping up today after a weekend of heavy rain flooded homes and caused a landslip at the back of a house.
		PHILIPPINES - The suvivors of the landslide in Barangay Guinsaugon, St. Bernard, Southern Leyte, have not yet gotten over their grief over the deaths of their relatives and fellow villagers who were buried alive under tons of rocks and soil from the mountains, but here comes another monstrous landslide threatening one more hapless mountainside barangay.
	home.att.net /~thehessians/disasterwatch.html (2781 words)

	The Death Penalty Worldwide
		If death penalty was outlawed for ordinary crimes before it was outlawed in all cases, the earlier date is given.
		Death penalty is permitted only for exceptional crimes, such as crimes committed under military law or in wartime.
		Death penalty is sanctioned by law but has not been the practice for ten or more years.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0777460.html (323 words)

	GuruNet — Content Map
		List of descendants of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
		List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy
		List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy
	www.gurunet.com /cm-dsname-Wikipedia-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-18651 (110 words)

	Japan in shock over kidnap death toll - theage.com.au
		On a late autumn day in 1977, as the 13-year-old walked home on a beach after badminton practice, she was pounced on by North Korean agents and dragged to a waiting boat.
		Mr Kim said that the deaths were the result of "natural causes" or disasters.
		But a list of the dead obtained by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper gives an alarming profile: three were in in their 20s, and one was in her 30s.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/09/20/1032054962643.html (760 words)

	Death toll from Hajj stampede rises to 363 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- Officials on Friday raised the death toll in a stampede by Muslim pilgrims to 363, and the Saudi Interior Ministry defended its response, saying security forces were alerted to the problem immediately.
		Since Thursday's deaths, some people have complained that the 60,000 security forces at the site were not working enough to direct crowds and ensure that regulations are being obeyed.
		The deaths follow another accident that marred this year's hajj: the Jan. 5 collapse of a building being used as a pilgrims' hotel that killed 76 people in Mecca.
	www.canada.com /story.html?id=dd6ace9a-b6f5-4b2f-af6d-860162aa6fd1&k=3631 (920 words)

	Dusty death: How asbestos hit Australia : Mail & Guardian Online
		Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council estimates that the final death toll among mine workers involved in the operation will rise to 2 000, on a par with Bhopal and Chernobyl in the first rank of industrial disasters.
		The country is dotted with deposits of the mineral, from the crocidolite seams of Wittenoom to the white asbestos lode of Woodsreef in New South Wales, where 500 000 tons of chrysotile were mined before the plant closed in 1983.
		Since 1989 it has settled more than 1 400 claims in Australia and has a further 600 pending, and has established a Aus$324-million fund to pay for these cases and a further 130 000 in the United States, to where many of its fibre-board products were exported.
	www.mg.co.za /articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news&articleid=135493 (1032 words)

	A Career In Microbiology Can Be Harmful To Your Health
		The Miami Herald, referring to the death as an "incident," reported he had no wallet on him, and quoted Miami police as saying his death may have been the result of a mugging.
		The Times obituary indicated that the announcement of Pasechnik's death was made in the United States by Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, who stated that the cause of death was a stroke.
		Davis says he left the intelligence service in 1996, but when asked why a former member of British intelligence would be the person announcing the death of Pasechnik to the US media, he replied that it had come about during a conversation with a reporter he had had a long relationship with.
	www.copvcia.com /free/ww3/02_14_02_microbio.html (4734 words)

	Proposal for the Australian Spaceguard Program
		Based on recent natural disasters in Australia, there is the potential for a $800 saving in direct economic losses in Australia (community, property and business losses) for every dollar spent on the Spaceguard program.
		On a worldwide basis, it is conservatively estimated that, averaged over many years, the global death rate from NEO impacts would be equivalent to 3,000 deaths per year or about one death per two million of population (see Appendix B).
		On the basis of the limited research into NEOs and tsunami to date, the death toll from a 10 metre tsunami striking the east coast of Australia is estimated to be at least 35,000.
	www1.tpgi.com.au /users/tps-seti/sg_prop.html (7371 words)

	Sean LaFreniere
		When a disaster strikes a city such as New Orleans the Feds do not step in immediately and begin offering assistance nor do they "take charge" as we see in so many FBI and conspiracy theory movies (FEMA is NOT going to take over the world with fl helicopters).
		Roughly 200,000 of the city's 400,000 residents were left homeless amd the official death toll of only 478 was revised to more than 3,400 in 2005 (Chinese immigrants were undercounted).
		Three hundred thousand people were rendered homeless, and their ordinary methods of providing themselves with food, clothing and shelter, being entirely destroyed, their feeding and sheltering demanded extraordinary action and engrossed the attention of every one as soon as the ravages of the fire were checked.
	seanlafreniere.blogspot.com /2005_09_01_seanlafreniere_archive.html (7612 words)

	Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of Death: How We Die
		And those dying in old age increasing die slow motion deaths from chronic ailments such as Alzheimer's Disease (which is the 11th leading cause of older Americans' deaths), often dying socially-- as when institutionalized within a nursing home--before expiring biologically.
		Because of the historically relative scarcity of premature deaths due to "natural causes," there is an interesting cultural impulse to give consolation to those denied a normal lifespan, particularly children who are terminally ill or who have life-threatening ailments.
		death and life expectancy rates to gauge social progress, compare national homicide rates to infer the stability of social structures, or compare death rates of different social groups to ascertain social inequalities.
	www.trinity.edu /~mkearl/death-2.html (4212 words)

	World Disasters
		Another cold-related death was reported in the neighbouring state of Haryana, officials said.
		The death and destruction the storms wrought along the Caribbean, on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and on Florida's Atlantic coast are still evident in many areas.
		Relief Effort Under Way as Death Toll Rises By ANDI DJATMIKO, AP BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Dec. 28) - Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis.
	www.zulunation.com /worlddisaters.htm (7646 words)

	WMO 50 - Chronicle
		During this century major flooding disasters occurred in 1900,1911, 1915,1931,1935,1950, 1954,1959, 1991 and 1998 mainly in the Yangtze River Valley.
		The final estimated death toll was 11,000, the greatest loss of life from a tropical system in the western hemisphere since 1780.
		The death toll exceeded that of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption.
	www.wmo.ch /wmo50/e/world/weather_pages/chronicle_e.html (1196 words)

	Herald Sun: Officials warn of large death toll (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For many of those rescued, evacuation was not the end of their ordeal, with buses packed with survivors reportedly turned away from shelters outside the disaster area.
		At New Orleans airport, which was transformed into holding pen for the elderly and infirm as well as a gateway for the departing, dozens of people from nursing homes and hospitals lay dying on stretchers on the floor.
		Mr Chertoff acknowledged Sunday that Washington was still not fully prepared for disasters and suggested that a new model for dealing with "ultra-catastrophes" might give the Federal Government more of a leading role.
	www.heraldsun.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5478,16494424^1702,00.html (1012 words)

	AM - Tsunami death toll now 23,000
		PETER CAVE: Since yesterday, the official death toll from the tsunamis which swept across South East Asia and the Indian Ocean has doubled to more than 23,000 but many thousands more are still missing, and in some areas communications remains down with no clear picture of the scale of death and devastation.
		The weary and walking wounded filed in from the tsunami-battered outlying island of Phi Phi, to recount scenes of devastation amid reports that hundreds had died or were missing presumed dead.
		So I'd like to appeal to anyone in Australia who knows that their, contacts their friends, their relatives, in Thailand are safe, can they please telephone the DFAT hotline, the DFAT crisis centre in Canberra so we can cross their name off the list.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2004/s1272957.htm (1162 words)

	History and Society/Disasters/Disasters Sub-category List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1859, a farmer introduced 24 wild rabbits to Australia.
		This disaster occured when two sight-seeing balloons were launched over Alice Springs, Australia, only minutes apart.
		At the Cavalese ski resort, northern Italy, 42 people were killed in a cable-car accident on March 9, 1976, when the cable ruptured and the lift...
	www.guinnessworldrecords.com /content_pages/record_subcategory.asp?subcategoryid=49 (246 words)

	USATODAY.com - Wolfowitz ends visit as Indonesia raises death toll by 5,000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfowitz praised American troops for their efforts to aid survivors and hinted that the American operation could mean closer military ties with Indonesia.
		Meanwhile, Australia and New Zealand — both of which lost vacationing citizens on the southern beaches of Thailand — observed a minute of silence at the precise time of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that triggered the tsunami.
		Maintaining a steady flow of relief supplies and preventing disease outbreaks were priorities in the current phase of the aid operation that not only included Indonesia, but Sri Lanka — where nearly 31,000 were killed — as well as India and Thailand, officials said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-01-15-tsunami_x.htm (1083 words)

	The Command Post - Global Recon - Earthquake: How to Help [Updated 1/1/05] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The death toll is estimated at 11,000, including over 3,200 in India alone.
		As the death toll climbs past 150,000 and the world comes to grips with the devastation caused by the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis,numerous organizations across Asia are stepping up to organize relief and rehabilitation.
		Disasters of this kind are occasions when we should be on high alert to keep social justice at the top of the agenda.
	www.command-post.org /nk/2_archives/018256.html (7038 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Asian disaster: How to help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The UN has warned that supplies are urgently needed to support the survivors and to try and prevent disease which, it says, could double the death toll.
		The Disasters Emergency Committee - www.dec.org.uk - is an umbrella group of UK aid organisations - including Action Aid, British Red Cross and Oxfam - working to provide clean water, food and shelter to thousands.
		Merlin - www.merlin.org - a medical relief agency, is working with victims of the disaster in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4131881.stm (1012 words)

	IOL: Coal mine death toll confirmed
		Beijing - The death toll from a coal mine blast in northern China has risen to 166, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday, confirming one of the worst disasters to hit the world's most dangerous mining industry.
		China's mines, which provide the main fuel for the world's seventh-biggest economy, have an appalling safety record underscored by a series of major accidents this year and at least four in the last few days.
		The death rate for every 100 tons of coal produced in China was 100 times that of the United States, Xinhua said on Tuesday.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=&click_id=3&art_id=qw1101874684435B255 (435 words)

	Hurricane Death Toll Likely Lower Than Worst Predictions... \| The Huffington Post
		Estimates of the death toll from Hurricane Katrina have run as high as 10,000 but the actual body count so far is much lower and officials who feared the worst now hope the dire predictions were wrong.
		There's no doubt that the death toll is far less the the 10,000 estimate.
		It would be absolutely awesome if the death toll were low.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /2005/09/10/hurricane-death-toll-like_n_7145.html (3026 words)

	Pakistan earthquake death toll rises to 87,350 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pakistani finance ministry official Iqbal Ahmed Khan said an assessment by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, working with local provincial governments and aid agencies, found Pakistan's death toll to be 86,000.
		The central Pakistani government's official death toll - still at 73,000 - typically has lagged behind other estimates, including those of local provincial governments in the quake-affected areas, who have been reporting figures adding up to 79,000.
		The UN stepped up its appeals for more money to help victims centred in Pakistan's portion of Kashmir, urging donors to be as generous as with other recent disasters and saying it urgently needs $42.4 million US to keep bringing help through November.
	www.canada.com /national/story.html?id=13010132-011c-454e-814e-c3cb23a43f0a (528 words)

	Natural Disasters :: Hyscience
		It has been estimated that the death toll on the Pakistan side of the border of Kashmir is around 54,000.
		The toll includes the deaths of 157 girls who were killed at their school.
		the second disaster was the decision making of a human being - Mayor Nagin of New Orleans, who allowed sixty (or more) high and dry school buses to go unused in ferrying those in N.O. without transportation of their own - out of town and out of reach from his deadly decision-making.
	www.hyscience.com /archives/natural_disasters/index.php (2741 words)

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