Incidents on 17 October 2024
Thursday, 17 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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An explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza kills hundreds of Palestinians during the Gaza war.
A fire that lasted over 15 hours destroyed almost one third of the East Tower of the Parque Central Urban Complex in Caracas, Venezuela.
The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63.
The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.