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World's Most Disasters

Workers load the carcasses of horses into a truck at an equestrian 
club in Mexico City on August 26. 
Heavy rain caused floods, drowning at least 50 trapped 
horses and killing a night watchman
A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, 
Iowa, on June 10, at 9:04pm

The broken spillway of a vanadium mine is seen in Shanyang county, 
Shaanxi province, China, on July 22
This September 10 image, taken by the crew of the International Space Station 
flying 220 statute miles above Earth, 
shows Hurricane Ike
In this September 12 photo, a home burns on the beach on Galveston Island, 
Texas, as Hurricane Ike approaches
People seek refuge from flood waters in east
In this October 13 photo, traffic snakes up a road as 
residents flee their hillside homes
The Chaiten volcano in Chile erupts during storms in the 
middle of the night on May 3
A soldier on the banks of the Rio Blanco looks at a cloud of ash from the 
Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile on June 25
An aerial photograph captures the plume of ashes spewed by 
the Chaiten volcano in Chile, on May 31

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