asteroids This website lets you simulate the effects of crater impacts anywhere on Earth Mark Frauenfelder

maritime The largely forgotten disaster of the SS Eastland Gareth Branwyn

hurricane ian NPR's photo gallery reveals Hurricane Ian's path of destruction Mark Frauenfelder

disasters China skyscraper engulfed in flames Rob Beschizza

total disaster Bill Nye talks about his new disaster series, "The End is Nye" Gareth Branwyn

landslides 20 feared dead in Japan landslide Rob Beschizza

shipping Security camera footage of wave breaking freighter in half Rob Beschizza

Beirut explosion Second-by-second forensic recreation of Beirut explosion Rob Beschizza

fireworks Great history of a 1983 illegal firework factory explosion Andrea James

boats 42 sailors and 5,867 cows feared dead after ship capsizes in storm Rob Beschizza

zeppelin Watch the Hindenburg disaster unfold Jason Weisberger

dystopianism Sci-fi author Ted Chiang on the disaster novel we're currently living through Gareth Branwyn

disasters NYT: In times of global shock people help each other, while the elite panic Mark Frauenfelder

groupthink Using the Challenger Disaster to illustrate the 8 symptoms of groupthink Cory Doctorow

Nixon Nixon deepfaked to read his prepared speech for a moon-landing disaster Rob Beschizza

spills Human body trapped in sewage screen causes 14.5 million gallon sewage spill Mark Frauenfelder

disasters Footage from inside crash-landing Russian plane Rob Beschizza

Woolsey Fire California Fires: From space, NASA JPL maps damage from Woolsey and Camp blazes Xeni Jardin

#HurricaneMichael Scary radar animation of Hurricane Michael making landfall Rob Beschizza

mutual aid How anarchist organizers in rural Puerto Rico rebooted their power grid after the privatized power company abandoned them Cory Doctorow