Natural Disasters that have afflicted the World during one year

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