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Man-made Disaster (ESI_9)
DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.
RDF: esi_9.ttl
- Name
manMadeDisaster- Attribute
- ESI Event Significance
- Definition
- An event that is an important catastrophe caused by human activities.
- Description
- For example: the partial nuclear meltdown on March 28, 1979, at a nuclear reactor in the Three-Mile Island Generating Station in Pennsylvania, caused by several human errors; the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, in Ukraine, attributed to operator errors and design flaws; and the gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, on December 2-2, 1984, debatably attributed both to negligent maintenance and to sabotage.
- Accepted
- 2016-06-08
- Defined by
- NFDD 6.1
- Allowed for
Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.