Christchurch Earthquake – 2011

9 years ago

The inhabitants of Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island knew they were at risk front earthquakes, living as they do…

Queensland Floods – 2010-2011

9 years ago

cxzThose living on a ridge high in the mountains might reasonably suppose that, flooding is the last natural disaster that…

Haiti Earthquake – 2010

9 years ago

The island of Hispaniola is divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. With 10 million impoverished citizens, Haiti at the…

Manila Floods – 2009

9 years ago

Flooding is a regular problem in the Philippines, but the disaster that occurred in September 2009, when Typhoon Ketsana lashed…

Black Saturday Bushfires – 2009

9 years ago

Extreme weather conditions made it possible, but the evil hand of man made a fatal contribution to the series of…

Kenya Drought – 2008-2009

9 years ago

Is it global warming starting to impact negatively on millions of people in Africa, or is a normal weather cycle…

Cyclone Nargis – 2008

9 years ago

The worst natural disaster in the long history of Myanmar was caused by the ominously named Very Severe Tropical Cyclonic…

Hurricane Katrina – 2005

9 years ago

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a bad time to be living along the Gulf Coast in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana…

Mumbai Monsoon – 2005

9 years ago

Weather forecasters don’t always get it right - or even agree with each other. So it was ahead of India’s…

Indian Ocean Tsunami – 2004

9 years ago

When is an earthquake not an earthquake? Answer, when it’s a tsunami. Of course that’s just wordplay, because the Sumatra-Andaman…