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Man-Made Disasters: Our Own Fault

sioroloiv I The National hours. It turned out that of many establishmenh Ar OUR OUR OWN FAULT Natural disasters, for the most part, can't be avoided. But how much time and money do we spend cleaning up our own messes? THE COSTLIEST Some of the most expensive disasters in history have been manmade. Let's explore the most expensive disasters that were humans' fault. JAN. 28 1986: 2002 APRIL 26 1986: COST: CHERNOBYL CHALLENGER EXPLOSION PRESTIGE OIL SPILL The Challenger rocket was in the air for just over 60 seconds when an O-ring destroyed the rocket and k astronauts on board. Because of the During a routine test at a nuclear plant In Pripyat, a sudden power surge #4 exploding and blast of radiation. 31 people died immediately and the entire town had to During a tropical storm off coast of Galicia, an oil tanker's the led to Ito reactor fuel tanks ruptured and spilled its cargo into the sea. The ship tried to dock in various ports but I killed the seven releasing a faulty O-ring, freezing conditions in space and poor organization, the rocket exploded seconds after it was launched. This led to NASA activities being suspended to overhaul safety procedures. was turned away because Spain, France and and Portugal did not want to deal with the environmental I with consequences. Eventually, the ship split in two in the storm and be evacuated. Eventually, it is estimated the explosion led to the deaths of between 10,000 and 20,000. The area is still a ghost town. spilled 77,000 metric tons (20 million gallons) of oil off the northern coast of Spain. 1991: COST: KUWAIT OIL FIRES Following the invasion of Kuwait, then-Iragi dictator Saddam Hussein sent men to detonate hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells. They managed to set more than 600 ablaze; those fires burned for BILLION ethan seven months, and the resulting oil spill caused enormous environmental damage. more COST: BILLION BILLION $2 BILLION COST: BILLION FEB. 1 APRIL 10 2003: 2010: 1989: COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTER DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL During re-entry after several complete missions, the Columbia Space Shuttle disintegrated, killing all crew members on board. A piece of foam had broken off and struck the wing of the shuttle, causing the accident. The 64,000 pieces of the ship are on display at the Kennedy Space Center. As the second most-costly disaster in human history, the explosion took the lives of 11 workers on board the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of .BP EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL More than 11 million gallons of oil spilled over nearly 500 miles of the Prince William Sound Mexico. was charged with 11 hter a Cos of manslaughter, a felony count of lying to Congress and two misdemeanors. Legal coastline in Alaska. More than a quarter-million birds and countless other animals died. proceedings are ongoing as 150 people living in the area are still suffering and some have developed illnesses. THE WEIRDEST Not all manmade disasters are especially costly; some of them are just plain memorable. THE BERKELEY PIT, MONTANA A flock of geese landed on Berkeley Pit Lake in Montana in November 1995. The lake is a directoradelorga- copper mine filled with more than THE GREAT PACIFIC 40 BILLION CENTRALIA, GARBAGE PATCH PENNSYLVANIA A "landfill" also known as the Pacific Trash Vortex is In 1962, a huge coal fire under the city was ignited and has been burning ever since. Residents were relocated by 1984 after a 12-year-old boy died after falling a hole that suddenly appeared in his backyard. The entire town was condemned in 1992. GALLONS OF ACIDIC 3.5 MILLION WATER AND HEAVY METALS. After the geese landed, there were several days of stormy conditions and fog, keeping them on the lake. 342 of the birds were found dead because the TONS OF FLOATING into TRASH between Hawaii and California. It is twice the size of Texas and is made up of 90% plastic debris. water corroded their esophagi. PICHER, OKLAHOMA According to the EPA, this is the most toxic place in the United States. It was once the world's richest lead and zinc mining area where 20,000 people lived. Acidic water began seeping from underground tunnels and turned the nearby creek into poison. Fewer than 25 people live there now. THE ARAL SEA, KAZAKHSTAN Irrigation projects from the Aral Sea have gradually drained the water. Soviet operations drained it nearly dry, and it has separated into two smaller areas. CACTUS DOME IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS GATES OF HELL The U.S. government dug up 111,000 cubic yards of radioactive soil from the Marshall Islands in the late 1970s after nuclear test IN TURKMENISTAN explosions. They moved the soil to a 350-foot wide crater left by nuclear tests on Runit Island. They made 358 concrete panels and formed a In 1971 a Soviet drilling operation hit a huge underground natural gas cavern, causing the ground to collapse. Deadly fumes began leaking from the hole and, to avert a disaster, Soviet authorities lit fire to the 100,000. 328.FOOT HOLE. IT STILL BURNS TODAY. SQUARE-FOOT DOME THAT IS STILL RADIOACTIVE. It cost the government a quarter of a billion dollars. THE SIDOARJO MUD VOLCANO Gas drilling on an Indonesian island called Java caused a mud volcano in May 2006. The volcano killed 13 people and has already covered GUIYU, CHINA Electronic trash is dissembled by hand in this Chinese town. It is 25 SQUARE KILOMETERS. the country's biggest e-waste village where computer parts are burned, cooked and soaked in acid to remove the precious metals inside them. These processes have led to the city being the second most polluted place on the earth. IT IS GROWING AT ABOUT 50,000 CUBIC METERS EACH DAY. That means it is getting bigger by 84 Olympic swimming pools every week. Scientists predict this will continue for another 30 years. SOURCES D http://www.huffingtonpost.com http://thinkprogress.org http://www.disasterium.com D https://www.princeton.edu http://www.therichest.com Emergency-management-degree.org saber del centrosicitan el tush %3D Municipal de la Muje $235 COST: BILLION $5.5 BILLION $12 $12 COST: $13 COST: $42 $1.5

Man-Made Disasters: Our Own Fault

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Disasters often left us with mess and would cost us a lot of money to clean it up. What about man-made disasters? Why did we allow them and how much did we spent for them to happen? But some of them a...

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