When Disaster Strikes

Featured 01/22/2014 in Animals & Nature

24 Powerful images of destruction.

1. Huge rock rolling through a house
2. Largest North American landslide on record, Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah, 2013
3. 2011 Japan Tsunami initial wave
4. Costa Concordia a new perspective
5. Fire in factory from inside
6. Fire from a burning bulding being sucked into a tornado
7. The strength of Category 5 Hurricane winds. Hurricane Andrew 1992
8. Blown over wind turbine in Wyoming
9. Brazilian Private Yacht Wrecked in Icy Antarctic Waters
10. A submerged statue of the Hindu Lord Shiva amid the flood waters of the river Ganges, June 17, 2013
11. A McDonalds Restaurant on US 90 in Biloxi, Mississippi, which sits across the road from the Gulf of Mexico, completely gutted during Hurricane Katrina
12. Collapse of Deepwater Horizon Rig
13. Hurricane Sandy- The Aftermath
14. Electric pole hanging after a wild fire
15. Erika tanker sinking off the coast of France
16. Burnt-down nightclub
17. Taxi cab on fire, New York January 9 2013
18. Crash test of an F-4 Phantom
19. Sinkhole, Guatemala City 2010
20. Four million dollar mansion burns to the ground in Ohio
21. Dresden, Germany, after allied bombings on 15 February 1945
22. A child walks past damaged buildings in Deir al-Zor Syria
23. Home Depot flattened by tornado, Joplin, Missouri, 2011
24. Cash machines in a bank in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 17th 2013

1. Huge rock rolling through a house
2. Largest North American landslide on record, Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah, 2013
3. 2011 Japan Tsunami initial wave
4. Costa Concordia a new perspective
5. Fire in factory from inside
6. Fire from a burning bulding being sucked into a tornado
7. The strength of Category 5 Hurricane winds. Hurricane Andrew 1992
8. Blown over wind turbine in Wyoming
9. Brazilian Private Yacht Wrecked in Icy Antarctic Waters
10. A submerged statue of the Hindu Lord Shiva amid the flood waters of the river Ganges, June 17, 2013
11. A McDonalds Restaurant on US 90 in Biloxi, Mississippi, which sits across the road from the Gulf of Mexico, completely gutted during Hurricane Katrina
12. Collapse of Deepwater Horizon Rig
13. Hurricane Sandy- The Aftermath
14. Electric pole hanging after a wild fire
15. Erika tanker sinking off the coast of France
16. Burnt-down nightclub
17. Taxi cab on fire, New York January 9 2013
18. Crash test of an F-4 Phantom
19. Sinkhole, Guatemala City 2010
20. Four million dollar mansion burns to the ground in Ohio
21. Dresden, Germany, after allied bombings on 15 February 1945
22. A child walks past damaged buildings in Deir al-Zor Syria
23. Home Depot flattened by tornado, Joplin, Missouri, 2011
24. Cash machines in a bank in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 17th 2013