Incidents on 10 October 2024
Thursday, 10 October 2024 — before continuous monitoring began on 9 August 2026. For this day we hold earthquakes from the USGS catalogue (magnitude 2.5 and above) and a few historical records, not a full record of every incident.
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Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.
The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.
Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.
A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, killing 25.
The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.