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A mudslide that consumes an entire neighborhood; A rocket bursts into flames moments after liftoff; one of the busiest commuter train lines fly off the tracks twice in just six months; A West Virginia coal mine mysteriously ignites.

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A jetliner crashes with 228 people on board; An oil refinery explodes in Utah, damaging over 100 homes; Manhole covers explode around the country; A coal filled freight train derails; a routine elevator ride becomes deadly.

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Asiana flight 214, packed with passengers, suddenly crash lands; a huge explosion at a chemical plant outside Wichita, Kan.; dangerous sinkholes exist in 20 percent of the United States.

Trapped Under Seattle

A storm of the century breaks nine dams in Colorado, flooding whole towns and leaving thousands stranded; A train transporting hazardous materials derails; A natural gas line breaks and reduces a neighborhood to ashes and rubble.

Colorado Dam Disaster

A 72 oil-car runaway train crashed, killing 47 people and leveling half a town; a huge sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum; 33 Chilean miners are trapped almost a half mile underground.

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Concertgoers are killed when a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair; a possible gas leak levels two buildings and kills eight people in New York City; a train crossing is the site of two disastrous auto collisions in one year.

Freight Train Collision

A massive explosion shakes a small Texas town killing 15 people; a bridge in Washington collapses sending cars down into the river; a building demolition in Philadelphia goes terribly wrong.

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