Datasets:

lukeslp
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us-disasters-mashup

Error code:   StreamingRowsError
Exception:    CastError
Message:      Couldn't cast
title: string
id: string
licenses: list<item: struct<name: string>>
  child 0, item: struct<name: string>
      child 0, name: string
subtitle: string
description: string
isPrivate: bool
keywords: list<item: string>
  child 0, item: string
category: null
latitude: null
longitude: null
name: null
date: null
subcategory: null
magnitude: null
fatalities: null
injuries: null
to
{'category': Value('string'), 'latitude': Value('float64'), 'longitude': Value('float64'), 'name': Value('string'), 'date': Value('string'), 'subcategory': Value('string'), 'magnitude': Value('float64'), 'fatalities': Value('int64'), 'injuries': Value('int64')}
because column names don't match
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 99, in get_rows_or_raise
                  return get_rows(
                         ^^^^^^^^^
                File "/src/libs/libcommon/src/libcommon/utils.py", line 272, in decorator
                  return func(*args, **kwargs)
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 77, in get_rows
                  rows_plus_one = list(itertools.islice(ds, rows_max_number + 1))
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2431, in __iter__
                  for key, example in ex_iterable:
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 1952, in __iter__
                  for key, pa_table in self._iter_arrow():
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 1984, in _iter_arrow
                  pa_table = cast_table_to_features(pa_table, self.features)
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2192, in cast_table_to_features
                  raise CastError(
              datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
              title: string
              id: string
              licenses: list<item: struct<name: string>>
                child 0, item: struct<name: string>
                    child 0, name: string
              subtitle: string
              description: string
              isPrivate: bool
              keywords: list<item: string>
                child 0, item: string
              category: null
              latitude: null
              longitude: null
              name: null
              date: null
              subcategory: null
              magnitude: null
              fatalities: null
              injuries: null
              to
              {'category': Value('string'), 'latitude': Value('float64'), 'longitude': Value('float64'), 'name': Value('string'), 'date': Value('string'), 'subcategory': Value('string'), 'magnitude': Value('float64'), 'fatalities': Value('int64'), 'injuries': Value('int64')}
              because column names don't match

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US Disasters Mashup

Unified dataset of 54,575 disaster events across four categories from US government sources.

Category	Records	Source	Date Range
Aviation Accidents	32,410	NTSB	1962-present
Shipwrecks	3,653	NOAA AWOIS	Historical
Severe Storms	14,770	NOAA	1950-2025
Earthquakes	3,742	USGS	2000-2025

Schema

{
  "category": "aviation_accident|shipwreck|storm|earthquake",
  "latitude": 40.7128,
  "longitude": -74.0060,
  "name": "Event name or location",
  "date": "2023-01-15",
  "subcategory": "Specific type (e.g., Tornado, maritime)",
  "magnitude": 5.2,
  "fatalities": 0,
  "injuries": 0
}

Data Quality

All records have valid coordinates
Coordinate precision: 6 decimal places
Aviation accidents: 100% have NTSB event IDs
Storms: Include fatalities, injuries, damage estimates
Earthquakes: Include magnitude and depth

Use Cases

Geospatial Analysis: Map disaster hotspots and corridors
Temporal Analysis: Identify seasonal and long-term trends
Risk Assessment: Cross-reference with population data
Machine Learning: Multi-class disaster classification
Visualization: "Data is Beautiful" style presentations

Sources

All data from US Government agencies (public domain):

NTSB: https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data
NOAA AWOIS: https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/data/wrecks-and-obstructions.html
NOAA Storm Events: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/
USGS Earthquakes: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/

Distribution

Kaggle: lucassteuber/us-disasters-mashup
HuggingFace: lukeslp/us-disasters-mashup
GitHub Gist: Demo Notebook

Author

Luke Steuber | @lukesteuber.com (Bluesky)

Structured Data (JSON-LD)

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  "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/lucassteuber/us-disasters-mashup",
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  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
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  "keywords": ["disasters", "aviation accidents", "shipwrecks", "storms", "earthquakes", "geospatial", "united states"],
  "temporalCoverage": "1950/2025",
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