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1、2022年高中英语Unit5ThepowerofnatureBackgroundinformationPart Two: Teaching Resources (第二部分：教学资源)Section 2: Background information on disastersI. List of disastersThis is a list of disasters, both natural and man-made.Classical-Era disastersVesuvius volcanic eruption, Italy Alexandria earthquake which des
2、troyed the Pharos of Alexandria Rhodes earthquake destroyed the Colossus of Rhodes Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed in an undetermined Biblical disaster. more than likely meteors Modern-Era disastersMobile magazine explosion (May 25, 1865) Krakatoa, Indonesia, volcanic eruption, (August 26, 1
3、883) Great Galveston Hurricane and Flood, Galveston, Texas (September 8, 1900) 1906 San Francisco earthquake, San Francisco, California (April 18, 1906) Halifax explosion, Halifax, Nova Scotia (December 6, 1917) The Boston Molasses Disaster, Boston, Massachusetts (January 15 1919) Tri-State Tornado,
4、 Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana (March 18, 1925) The Bombay Explosion, Victoria Dock Bombay, India (April 14 1944) The Port Chicago Explosion (July 17 1944) Hartford Circus Fire, Hartford, Connecticut (July 6, 1944) Texas City Explosion, Texas City, Texas, (April 16, 1947) Great Smog of 1952, Londo
5、n, England 24 hours of Le Mans disaster, France, (June 11, 1955) The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak, Midwest, United States (April 11, 1965) BLEVE explosion at a refinery in Feyzin, France (January 4, 1966) Aberfan disaster, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales (October 21, 1966) Ibrox disaster, Glasgow, Scotland (J
6、anuary 2, 1971) Summerland disaster, Isle of Man (August 2, 1973) The Super Outbreak, tornadoes in 13 U.S. states (April 3, 1974) The Flixborough disaster, North Lincolnshire (June 1 1974) Hyatt Hotel disaster, Kansas City, Missouri (July 17 1981) Heysel Stadium disaster, Brussels, Belgium (May 29,
7、1985) Piper Alpha Disaster, North Sea, Scotland, (July 6 1988) Hillsborough disaster, Sheffield, England (April 15, 1989) Bijlmerramp disaster, Bijlmerramp, Netherlands (October 4 1992) Chicago Heat Wave of 1995, Chicago, Illinois May 3rd tornados, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Enschede fireworks disaster
8、, Enschede, Netherlands (May 13, xx) Kaprun disaster, Kaprun, Austria (November 11, xx) European Heat Wave of xx, Europe Bam Earthquake, Iran (December 26, xx) Dam disastersGreat Sheffield flood, Sheffield, England (March 11, 1864) Johnstown flood, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, (May 31, 1889) St. Francis
9、 Dam Disaster, Los Angeles, California, (March 12, 1928) Environmental disastersLove Canal, Niagara Falls, New York (1970s) Seveso disaster, Italy, 1976 Bhopal Disaster, Bhopal, India (December 3, 1984) Exxon Valdez oil spill, Prince William Sound (March 24, 1989) Prestige oil spill, off the Spanish
10、 coast, (November 13, xx) Nuclear disastersDecember 12,1952 Chalk River Toronto Candada November 1955 Idaho Falls, Idaho October 1957 Sellafield, England March 1958 Fyshtym, Soviet Union January 1961 Idaho Falls, Idaho October 5, 1966 Idaho Falls, Idaho December 7, 1975 Lubmin, East Germany March 28
11、, 1979 Three Mile Island. Pennsylvania April 26, 1986 Kiev, Ukraine Also known as Chernobyl March 24, 1992 St. Petersburgh, Russia November 1995 Japan March 1997 Tokaimura, Japan September 20, xx Tokaimura, Japan War disastersThe Blitz, (German massive bombing), caused the deaths of an estimated 42,
12、000 civilians in major British cities. Dresden fire-bomb attacks, between 35,000 and 135,000 civillians killed in few days, by United Kingdom and United States massive bombing in Dresden, Germany (between February 13 and February 15, 1945). Tokyo fire-bomb attacks by USA, is estimated to have killed
13、 83,000 civilians. Nagasaki and Hiroshima nuclear bombing by USA in Japan Vietnam agent orange herbicide sprayed on few millions vietnam civilians and US troops, by USA during the Vietnam War between 1961 and 1970. Air disastersHydravion disaster Rio de Janeiro 3 December 1928 Airship R101 disaster
14、(October 5 1930) Hindenburg disaster (May 6 1937) Munich air disaster (February 6 1958) Staines air disaster (July 18 1972) Ermenonville air disaster north of Paris (March 3 1974) Tenerife disaster collision between KLM and PanAm Boeing 747s (March 27, 1977) Mount Erebus disaster in Antarctica (Nove
15、mber 28 1979) Challenger space shuttle explosion (January 28 1986) Ramstein airshow disaster (August 28, 1988) Lockerbie disaster (December 21 1988) Kegworth air disaster (January 8 1989) Ukraine airshow disaster (July 27, xx) Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (February 1, xx) Shootdown of Boeing 747 Korean Air Flight 7 (September 1 1983) Japan Airlines Flight 123 (August 12, 1985) Railroad disastersArmagh rail disaster (June 12, 1889) Tangiwai railway disaster (December 24, 1953) Granville railway disaster (January 18, 1977) Eschede train disaster (June 3, xx) Ladbroke Grove rail disaster
