• Amoco Cadiz Oil Spill
  • Love Canal NY Incident
  • Three Mile Island
  • Mississauga Ontario Rail Explosion
  • Mount St. Helens Volcano Eruption
  • Times Beach MO Dioxin Incident
  • Mexico City Propane Incident
  • Bhopal India Chemical Release
  • Mexico City Earthquake
  • Chernobyl USSR Radiation Release
  • Loma Prieta CA Earthquake
  • Hurricane Hugo
  • Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
  • Hurricane Iniki
  • Hurricane Andrew
  • Great Midwest Floods
  • Northridge CA Earthquake
  • Hurricane Floyd
  • September 11 Attacks on WTC and Pentagon
  • Anthrax Incident
  • Hurricane Isabel
  • SARS Incident
  • Avian Flu Incident
  • Indonesian Earthquake and Tsunamis
  • Four Florida Hurricanes
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • Hurricane Rita
  • Hurricane Wilma
  • On-Shore Oil Spills
  • After-Action Analyses and Reports
  • Assessment of the Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake
  • NAPA Report: Coping with Catastrophe
  • NAPA Report: Review of Federal Activities for HAZMAT Accident Safety
  • GAO Report: Federal, State and Local Response Needs Improvement
  • Galloway Report: Interagency Floodplain Management Review
  • Report of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
  • FEMA Report: The Natural and Beneficial Functions of Floodplain
  • RAND Report: Safeguarding Emergency Responders During Major Disasters and Terrorist Attacks
  • DHS Inspector General Report on Katrina
  • House Select Bipartisan Committee Report on Katrina (A Failure of Initiative)
  • Senate HSGAC Report on Katrina (A Nation Still Unprepared)
  • White House Townsend Report on Katrina (Lessons Learned)
  • Port and Tanker Safety Act
  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA / Superfund)
  • National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Reauthorization
  • Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA, SARA Title III)
  • Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
  • Oil Pollution Act of 1990
  • National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994
  • Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act (Nunn-Lugar-Domenici)
  • Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act
  • Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000
  • Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002
  • USA PATRIOT Act
  • USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005
  • USA Freedom Act of 2015
  • Homeland Security Act of 2002
  • National Construction Safety Team Act
  • Project BioShield Act of 2004
  • NEHRP Reauthorization Act of 2004
  • Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004
  • Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006
  • Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act (PETS Act)
  • Executive Order 12148 — Federal Emergency Management
  • Executive Order 12241 — National Contingency Plan / Radiological Preparedness
  • NSDD-47 — Emergency Mobilization Preparedness
  • Executive Order 12657 — Federal Emergency Management Agency Assistance in Emergency Preparedness Planning at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants
  • Executive Order 12699 — Seismic Safety of Federal Buildings
  • Executive Order 12941 — Seismic Safety of Existing Federally Owned or Leased Buildings
  • Executive Order 13010 — Critical Infrastructure Protection
  • Presidential Decision Directive 62 — Combating Terrorism
  • Presidential Decision Directive 63 — Critical Infrastructure Protection
  • Homeland Security Presidential Directive 3 — Homeland Security Advisory System
  • Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 — Management of Domestic Incidents
  • Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 — Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection
  • Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8 — National Preparedness
  • Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9 — Defense of United States Agriculture and Food
  • Homeland Security Presidential Directive 10 — Biodefense for the 21st Century
  • Homeland Security Presidential Directive 11 — Comprehensive Terrorist-Related Screening Procedures
  • Executive Order 13286 — Amendment of Executive Orders Relating to the Department of Homeland Security
  • Executive Order 13347 — Individuals with Disabilities in Emergency Preparedness
  • Executive Order on Gulf Coast Recovery (E.O. 13390)
  • National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • DHS Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate
  • DHS Preparedness Directorate
  • Office of Homeland Security (White House)
  • Homeland Security Advisory Council
  • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  • EPA Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office
  • EPA Office of Emergency Management
  • FEMA Mitigation Directorate
  • Federal Radiological Preparedness Coordinating Committee
  • National Contingency Plan
  • Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan
  • Federal Response Plan for a Catastrophic Earthquake
  • Federal Response Plan
  • FEMA Project Impact: Building Disaster Resistant Communities
  • TOPOFF I Exercise
  • TOPOFF II Exercise
  • TOPOFF III Exercise
  • Hurricane Pam Exercise
  • Initial National Response Plan
  • National Response Plan (Final)
  • National Incident Management System
  • National Preparedness Guidance
  • National Preparedness Goal
  • National Emergency Response/Recovery Plan
  • Federal Response Failure to Hurricane Katrina
  • Federal Response Failure to Hurricane Andrew
  • James Lee Witt
  • Michael D. Brown
  • FEMA Reform Under James Lee Witt
  • Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform
  • Virginia Tech Shooting
  • I-35W Mississippi River Bridge Collapse
  • H1N1 (Swine Flu) Pandemic
  • Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
  • Haiti Earthquake
  • Tohoku Earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi Disaster
  • Joplin Tornado
  • Hurricane Irene
  • Hurricane Sandy (Superstorm Sandy)
  • Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting
  • Boston Marathon Bombing
  • West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
  • Moore Oklahoma Tornado
  • West Africa Ebola Outbreak
  • Office of Personnel Management Data Breach
  • San Bernardino Attack
  • Zika Virus Outbreak
  • Pulse Nightclub Shooting
  • DNC Hack and 2016 Election Interference
  • Hurricane Harvey
  • Hurricane Irma
  • Hurricane Maria
  • Las Vegas Route 91 Festival Shooting
  • Northern California Wildfires (Tubbs Fire and Wine Country)
  • Equifax Data Breach
  • NotPetya Cyber Attack
  • WannaCry Ransomware Outbreak
  • Camp Fire (Paradise, CA)
  • Hurricane Michael
  • Hurricane Florence
  • COVID-19 Pandemic
  • SolarWinds Supply-Chain Compromise (SUNBURST)
  • 2020 Western U.S. Wildfire Season
  • August 2020 Midwest Derecho
  • Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack
  • Texas Winter Storm Uri / ERCOT Grid Failure
  • Surfside Champlain Towers South Collapse
  • Hurricane Ida
  • January 6 Capitol Attack
  • Hurricane Ian
  • Maui (Lahaina) Wildfires
  • East Palestine Train Derailment
  • Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
  • CrowdStrike Falcon Global Outage
  • Hurricane Helene
  • Hurricane Milton
  • Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack
  • Los Angeles Palisades and Eaton Wildfires
  • Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007
  • Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA)
  • Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (PAHPRA)
  • Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act (PAHPAIA)
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
  • Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013
  • Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014
  • Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015
  • Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018
  • Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018
  • Families First Coronavirus Response Act
  • Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act)
  • American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
  • Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA)
  • Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
  • CHIPS and Science Act
  • Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 — Public Health and Medical Preparedness
  • HSPD-20 / PPD-40 — National Continuity Policy
  • Presidential Policy Directive 8 — National Preparedness
  • Presidential Policy Directive 21 — Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
  • Executive Order 13636 — Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
  • Executive Order 13650 — Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security
  • Presidential Policy Directive 41 — U.S. Cyber Incident Coordination
  • Executive Order 13800 — Strengthening Federal Cybersecurity
  • Executive Order 13865 — Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses
  • Executive Order 14008 — Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad
  • Executive Order 14028 — Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity
  • National Security Memorandum 5 — Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems
  • National Security Memorandum 22 — Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
  • Executive Order 14110 — Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI
  • Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
  • Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (later Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response)
  • DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate
  • Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
  • National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center
  • Office of the National Cyber Director
  • Cyber Safety Review Board
  • Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative
  • White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy
  • FEMA Office of Resilience (Resilience Directorate)
  • National Response Framework
  • National Disaster Recovery Framework
  • National Protection Framework
  • National Prevention Framework
  • National Mitigation Framework
  • Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework
  • Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)
  • Operation Warp Speed
  • Strategic National Stockpile
  • Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
  • CISA Shields Up
  • FEMA Publication 1 — We Are FEMA
  • FEMA Hurricane Katrina Lessons Learned Implementation Reports
  • National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Report
  • NIST Joplin Tornado Investigation
  • Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force Strategy
  • Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report
  • House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Final Report
  • CSRB Log4j Review
  • CSRB Lapsus$ Review
  • CSRB Microsoft Exchange Online Intrusion (Storm-0558) Report
  • Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5)
  • Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4)
  • House January 6 Select Committee Final Report
  • Sandy-Era Disaster Recovery Reform
  • DRRA-Era Pre-Disaster Mitigation Reform
  • COVID-19 Era FEMA-HHS Mobilization
  • Federal Cyber Resilience Reform Wave
  • Climate Resilience Integration into Emergency Management
  • Federal Response Failure in Hurricane Maria (Puerto Rico)
  • COVID-19 Federal Response Failures (Early Phase)
  • Maui Wildfire Alert and Evacuation Failure
  • ERCOT Cold Weather Grid Failure
  • Bhopal Litigation (Union of India v. Union Carbide; $470M Settlement)
  • In re Exxon Valdez (Punitive Damages Litigation)
  • USA v. McVeigh; USA v. Nichols (Oklahoma City Bombing Prosecutions)
  • USA v. Zacarias Moussaoui (9/11 Conspiracy)
  • Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
  • Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
  • Boumediene v. Bush
  • In re Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation
  • In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig 'Deepwater Horizon' (MDL 2179)
  • USA v. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Boston Marathon Bombing)
  • ACLU v. Clapper
  • Clapper v. Amnesty International USA
  • Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
  • In re Target Corp. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
  • In re U.S. Office of Personnel Management Data Security Breach Litigation
  • In re Equifax Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
  • USA v. Joseph Sullivan (Uber CISO Conviction)
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo
  • NFIB v. OSHA (Vaccine ETS)
  • Biden v. Missouri (CMS Vaccine Mandate)
  • USA v. Stewart Rhodes et al. (Oath Keepers Seditious Conspiracy)
  • USA v. Enrique Tarrio et al. (Proud Boys Seditious Conspiracy)
  • USA v. Trump (January 6 Federal Indictment)
  • USA v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Guantanamo Military Commission)
  • In re Volkswagen 'Clean Diesel' MDL
  • Jewel v. NSA / In re NSA Telecom Records Litigation
  • USA v. Edward Snowden (Espionage Act Charges)
  • USA v. Bradley/Chelsea Manning (WikiLeaks Disclosures)
  • In re Champlain Towers South Condominium Collapse Litigation
  • In re PG&E Wildfire Litigation (Camp Fire / Tubbs Fire)
  • Maui Wildfire Litigation (Hawaiian Electric)
  • Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill
  • USA v. Burford Gorsuch (Superfund Contempt)
  • USA v. BP Exploration & Production Inc. (DWH Criminal Plea)
  • In re Petition of Grace Ocean Private Ltd. (Key Bridge Limitation of Liability)
  • USA / Ohio v. Norfolk Southern (East Palestine Settlements)
  • World War I
  • 2025 Pakistan Floods
  • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government Helicopter Crash
  • Lesnoy Factory Explosion
  • Örebro Mosque Shooting
  • Hurricane Erin
  • Pakistan Mil Mi-17 Helicopter Crash
  • U.S. CENTCOM Strikes on Iran
  • U.S. Fifth Fleet Attack in Bahrain
  • Middle Eastern Crisis
  • Democratic Republic of Congo Ebola Outbreak
  • Sudanese Pound Plunge Against Foreign Currencies
  • Colombian President Power Suspension Proposal
  • Protests in Support of Iran and Its Allies
  • World War II
  • SOS Signal Adoption
  • Hong Kong Typhoon and Tsunami
  • Valparaíso Earthquake
  • San Francisco Earthquake
  • Aleutian Islands Earthquake
  • Courrières Mine Disaster
  • Ecuador-Colombia Earthquake and Tsunami
  • Valencia Shipwreck Disaster
  • Algeciras Conference
  • Persian Constitutional Revolution
  • Trial of Russian Revolution Leaders
  • Project to Compile the Catholic Encyclopedia
  • Battle of Nanshan (Namakantai)
  • Snyder Tornado
  • Zeigler Coal Mine Explosion
  • Battle of Mukden
  • Establishment of the Russian Duma
  • Battle of Port Arthur
  • Kangra Earthquake
  • Second Manifesto of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Entente Cordiale
  • CQD Distress Signal
  • Battle of Waterberg
  • Herero Wars
  • Great Fire of Toronto
  • Ålesund Fire
  • Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty Signed
  • Tewksbury Explosives Storage Magazines Explosion
  • Panama Proclaims Independence from Colombia
  • Heppner Flash Flood Disaster
  • Battle of Port Arthur
  • Kresna Earthquakes
  • SS Petriana Oil Spill
  • Frank Slide Rockslide Disaster
  • First Kishinev Pogrom
  • Manzikert Earthquake
  • Annexation of Aceh Sultanate by Dutch Forces
  • Washington Protocols Settlement of Venezuelan Crisis
  • Kent Meningitis Outbreak
  • Edward VII Proclaimed Emperor of India
  • Midland Mass Shooting Incident
  • Strait of Hormuz Crisis
  • Moneta Tent Collapse Incident
  • Ceasefire Agreement in the 2026 Iran War
  • Cuba Leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States
  • 2015 Bangkok Bombing Sentencing
  • Execution of Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock
  • Rolling Mill Mine Disaster
  • Mount Pelée Eruption
  • Battle of Tweebosch
  • Caister Lifeboat Disaster
  • Commonwealth Franchise Act
  • Guatemala Earthquake
  • Wollongong Miners Disaster
  • Black Sea Earthquake
  • La Soufrière Eruption
  • Balangiga Massacre
  • SS City of Rio de Janeiro Sinking
  • Senghenydd Mining Accident
  • William McKinley Assassination
  • Platt Amendment
  • Unification of Australia
  • Vietnam War
  • Cold War
  • Battle of Kousséri
  • Open Door Policy
  • Korean War
  • Russian Invasion of Manchuria
  • Escalation of the Boxer Rebellion in China
  • Belfast Attack
  • Galveston Hurricane of 1900
  • Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Explosion
  • 2026 Mindanao Earthquake
  • 2026 Strait of Hormuz Crisis
  • Palestinian Attack in Israel
  • Hamas Operative Arrested in Greece
  • Gulfstream G200 Crash in Dominican Republic
  • Euboea Earthquakes
  • 2026 Iran War
  • 2026 Lebanon War
  • 2026 Bangladesh Measles Outbreak
  • 2026 Lebanon War
  • Indian Air Force Antonov An-32 Crash in Jorhat
  • Frank Rockslide Disaster