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Deadliest Infrastructure Tragedies Of All Time

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Infrastructures are valuable elements that keep a country functional and operational&period; Because of their importance&comma; the government of every country should take concrete steps to make sure that their infrastructures are well maintained&period; This is to avoid accidents that would not only affect the country’s economy&comma; but possibly take many lives as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Below are seven of the most deadliest infrastructure tragedies of all time&comma; based on their death tolls&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Haiti Earthquake<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Although the earthquake that caused havoc in this little island was more natural rather than man made&comma; what made the Haiti incident so tragic were the poor measures its government took to prepare for such an incident&period; For years geologists had warned about the possibility of a great earthquake happening because of the island’s location&period; Still&comma; poor infrastructure coupled with gross neglect led to an estimate death toll of 316&comma;000 in the January 2010 tragedy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1252" alt&equals;"Deadliest Infrastructure Tragedies Of All Time" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;infrastructure-tragedies&period;jpg" width&equals;"650" height&equals;"350" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Quebec Bridge Collapse<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">One of Canada’s major bridges collapsed twice in history—claiming a total of 95 lives&period; Both collapses&comma; which happened in 1907 and 1916&comma; were caused by an error in the construction design&comma; making the carrying capacity of the bridge less than the weight of the bridge itself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Silver Bridge Collapse<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Silver Bridge connected West Virginia and Ohio for thirty-nine years before it collapsed in 1967&comma; due to stress corrosion cracking on one of the major links near the Ohio tower&period; The tragedy claimed a total of 46 lives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Chernobyl Disaster<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In what is considered a catastrophic nuclear accident&comma; the Chernobyl Disaster occurred on April 26&comma; 1986&comma; when an explosion and a succeeding fire released huge quantities of radioactive particles in the air&comma; affecting most of Europe&period; Thirty-one people died because of the explosion&comma; not counting the casualties that the radiation will cause in upcoming years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">I-75 Car Pile-up<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">A dense fog on the morning of December 11&comma; 1990 covered a section of I-75 in Tennessee and caused a seventy-car pile-up that stretched for half a mile&period; Motorists were unable to see road markings and warning posts supplied along the highway because of the low visibility&period; Thirteen lives were lost in the incident&comma; and a lot more people were injured&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">I-5 Thanksgiving Tragedy<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">On November 29&comma; 1991&comma; strong winds swept across I-5 in California amid the mad inflow of traffic caused by people going home after Thanksgiving weekend&period; The wind blew over an unplanted farmland and whipped up a dust storm&comma; causing low visibility and a disastrous 104-car pileup&period; By the time rescuers managed to get to the scene&comma; 17 people have already died and 150 more were severely injured&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">On March 11&comma; 2012&comma; a tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan and caused the meltdown of three of its six nuclear reactors&period; March 12 saw the release of a substantial amount of radioactive materials which spilled both in the water in the plant and the sea&period; Although the total death toll is unconfirmed&comma; the possible radiation effects in succeeding years are a cause of more concern&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Infrastructure tragedies caused by natural disasters are unavoidable&comma; but men should take initiative and prepare against them as best as they can&period; On the other hand&comma; man made tragedies can be minimized&comma; if not completely avoided&comma; by careful planning and proper maintenance of said infrastructures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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