print email comment close Worst United States Disasters URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001459.html Description: This basic information on historical disasters is organized into topics that cover aircraft, avalanche, dam, drought, earthquake, epidemic, explosion, fire, flood hurricane, marine, mine, oil spill, railroad, submarine, terrorist attack, tornado, and winter storm. Includes updates about current disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina. From the Information Please Almanac. Publisher: The Learning Network, Inc. Extra Keywords katrina hurricanekatrina Library of Congress Subject Headings: Disasters -- United States LII Database Information: Record 1710 created by Carole Leita on 06/09/2001 Last modification on 09/02/2005 Published: 06/09/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/1710