It has barely been several brief months since the small settlement of Gansu in China encounter their devastating mudslides. This disastrous incident left in its wake 1,500 dead people. We can learn a lot as far as setting up our survival retreats from these horrible events that occurred in August.

Flags were at half-staff on Saturday to remember to the mudslide victims.

Report of China’s deadly mudslide that happened a few days ago.

Whether directly or indirectly, intentional or unintentional, through negligence or even with due diligence, humans are especially skillful at creating disasters, a truth that is quite evident throughout history. As follows are but some of the worst man-made environmental disasters in history.