Accidents

Examples of Engineering Failures. This site, hosted by the University of British Columbia, is a bibliography of resources related to selected technological disasters. Categories include aircraft, bridges, buildings, dams, and other resources.

National Transportation Safety Board . This site offers statistics and data on accidents in the U.S., current and historic, by transportation mode--aviation, highway, marine, rail, pipeline and hazardous materials.

Other sites of note related to transportation disasters include Major Airline Disasters for information on world-wide events, and The Aviation Accident Site which contains radar images and cockpit voice recordings.

National Response Center. This site features a database of all oil, chemical, radiological, biological, and etiological hazardous substance discharges into the environment anywhere in the United States. It contains facts on types of spills, where spills occurred, the "top ten" spills, numbers of spills by location and so on.

National Fire Data Center. This site maintains detailed statistics on urban fires in the U.S. from 1985 to date.

 

Failure Watch. This site provides brief descriptions of incidents involving civil engineering failures.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Exhibits. This site, hosted by Carleton University, features notable civil engineering works, including disastrous ones such as bridge collapses.

Mining Disasters. This site features a list of mine accidents, by decade, in which there were five or more fatalities.

Terrorism and War

The Terrorism Research Center. The site contains terrorist profiles, a calendar of significant dates for terrorist activities, and links to sites containing descriptions of terrorist incidents and travel advisories.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. This site offers various data on refugee populations from 1985 onward.

Terrorism Time Line. This chart shows a timeline of major terrorist activities affecting the U.S. from 1993 to date.