List of man-made disasters in the Philippines

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This is a list of man-made disasters in the Philippines. This includes only acts that were not deliberately perpetrated and involved significant damage or loss of life.

Contents

Air disasters

Maritime disasters

Traffic collisions and land transportation disasters

Fires and explosions

Structural and infrastructure failures

Environmental disasters

Miscellaneous

See also

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1998 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1998.

The crash of a bus in Balamban, Cebu, Philippines, killed at least 21 people and another 26 were wounded on 13 June 2010.

1997 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1997.

1987 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1987.

1999 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1999.

A passenger bus fell into a ravine, nearly 100-foot (30 m) high, in Carranglan, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, killing 36 people and injuring about 40 others, after it lost its brakes near Dalton Pass on April 18, 2017. The accident surpassed the number of deaths in the bus crash in Tanay, Rizal in February that year that killed 15.

On January 6, 1967, two Catholic pilgrimage buses collided on a mountainous road near a reinforced timber bridge in the rural town of Indang, Cavite, Philippines. Subsequently, they plunged off a cliff, killing more than 80 people, the majority being women and children, and injuring the remaining passengers, making it one of the world's worst road accidents and disasters and the worst in Philippine history.

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