Natural Disasters in the UK (since 1918)
by Charlie Edwards
I've been looking at a list of natural disasters in the UK on Wikipedia. The list is as follows:
1918–1919 Flu epidemic
1931 Dogger Bank earthquake
1947 Winter of 1946–1947 blizzards and deep freezes followed by heavy spring flooding
1952 Lynmouth flooding, Devon
1952 Great Smog of 1952, London
1953 North Sea Flood of 1953, England
1968 Scotland great storm of 1968 35 dead many homes and trees lost
1968 Great Flood of 1968
1987 The Great Storm of 1987
1990 The Burns' Day storm
2000 Severe flooding in many parts of the UK. Among the worst hits are York, Shrewsbury, Lewes, Uckfield and Maidstone
2003 European record breaking heatwave
2004 Boscastle flooding, Cornwall
2005 Carlisle flood, 8 January 2005
2005 Birmingham Tornado
2006 London Tornado
2007 Summer 2007 United Kingdom floods affected many parts of the UK, especially the Sheffield area, Hull, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.
(I'd be interested to know if there are any missing - please comment below!) Should Foot and Mouth be included?
Charlie Edwards
A senior official from HMG has been in touch to say that I have missed loads of examples off the list. I'm pointed towards the National Recovery Guidance which has plenty of case studies. You can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/dm5cea
So here's another list:
Aberfan, 21 October 1966
Avian Influenza (H5N1) outbreak at Bernard Matthews site, 2 February 2007
Boscastle Flooding, 16 August 2004
Buncefield Fire, 11 December 2005
Buscot and Coleshill Estate Flooding, 20 July 2007
Calke Abbey Flooding, 15 June 2007
Carlisle Flooding, 8 January 2005
Flooding in Yorkshire and the Humber, June 2007
Foot and Mouth Disease, 2001
Hexham Flooding and Loss of Water Supply, 8 January 2005
Kensal Rise Tornado, 7 December 2006
Kent Earthquake, 28 April 2007
Ladbroke Grove Train Crash, 5 October 1999
Lewes Flooding, 12 October 2000
London Bombings, 7 July 2005
Manchester Bombing, 15 June 1996
Marchioness, 20 August 1989
Msc Napoli, 19 January 2007
Sea Empress Oil Spill, Milford Haven, 15 February 1996