Incidents on 12 October 2024
Saturday, 12 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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2022 Bratislava shooting, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one. The shooting occurred outside of a gay bar in Bratislava known as Tepláreň. Two people (excluding the perpetrator) died as a result of the shooting: Juraj Vankulič, a non-binary person, and Matúš Horváth, a bisexual man. The perpetrator (
Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people.
A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds at least 31 others.
Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.
A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66.
The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died.
A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
An M 7.7–8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete cause major damage as far as Egypt and Malta.
The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.