Natural Disasters Around The World

By 16omckinney

  • The Gujurat Earthquake

    The Gujurat Earthquake
    This quake took place in India and on the intra-plate area. Not an immediate fault zone but still a seismic hazard to have been keeping an eye on.

  • Indonesian Tsunami

    Indonesian Tsunami
    This is one of the most violent acts of nature when a 9.1 earthquake triggered this and left at most 230,000 people dead across several countries.

  • Nias earthquake

    Nias earthquake
    This earthquake is relativly small on the death toll but its affect is that is weakend several other fault lines making them more easily disturbed for when the next major earthquake happens near the region.

  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina
    Hurricane Katrina hit the Southern U.S. extreamly hard and is known by many as a catastrophe.

  • Kashmir Earthquake.

    Kashmir Earthquake.
    This earthquake affected the moutain villages mostly in the small country inbetweeen Pakistan and India. The bigger article topping this relates to the difficulties of trying to bring releif to the region as winter approached.

  • The Guinsaugon landslide

    The Guinsaugon landslide
    This landslide was expected and occurred but only after the evacuated citizens returned to their homes after the torrential onslaught of a typhoon.

  • Cyclone Nargis

    Cyclone Nargis
    Nargis formed and hit near Myanmar specifically Burma, a military state, which didnt allow to much air time for the world to see. But the death toll of 138,366 people remind of of just how devastating an Indian Ocean cyclone can be.

  • Haiti Earthquake

    Haiti Earthquake
    The image depicts the presidential building collapsing in on itself after the earthquake.

  • Nuclear cleanup

    Nuclear cleanup
    Back in 2011 a 9.0 Earthquake rippled its way through the ocean and base or Japans islands. The aftermath led to a Tsunami to follow while a great number of Japans Nuclear reactors went into meltdown. The photo shows the radioactivity of a schoolfield left over from the meldowns as presnt by the numbers on the lower part of the solar panel.

  • Typhoon Haiyan

    Typhoon Haiyan
    On November 30, 2013, a typhoon had ravaged the homes and shops of many Philippen people and left many without food. This photo just shows a man walking through a puddle but clearly shows the destruction behind him.