Topic: Natural Disasters (page 16)

FILE -- A Nov. 17, 2004 file photo shows traffic on I-75 just north of the Monroe, Ohio, going by a six story high statue of Jesus under construction at the Solid Rock Church Nov. 17, 2004. The 62-foot-tall statue made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame was stuck by lightning and destroyed Monday June 14, 2010. (AP Photo/The Enquirer, Glenn Hartong/file) -- Mandatory Credit -- (AP)

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Bangladeshi villagers walk down from their hilltop home after landslides struck in the southern coastal area of Cox's Bazar, 185 miles (296 kilometers) south of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Powerful landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 38 people and left seven army soldiers missing in southeastern Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Tofayel Ahmed) (AP)

Jill Zeman Bleed

Juan Carlos Llorca

BP botches oil containment, slick spreads

Harry R. Weber, Sarah Larimer

Tamara Lush, Harry R. Weber

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A crude orange and yellow barrier designed to keep the Gulf Coast oil spill from reaching the shores of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi is no match for the waves.

My house smells like a truck stop

With Haiti, our short attention span strikes again

FILE -- In this Sunday March 21, 2010 file photo, molten lava vents from a rupture near the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, as a volcano erupted. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting after 200 years of silence, threatening floods and earthquakes but drawing thousands of adventurous tourists - and their desperately needed cash - to the site where ash and red-hot lava spew from a crater between two glaciers.(AP Photo/Ragnar Axelsson ) (AP)

Iceland volcano erupts again, forcing evacuation

Jill Lawless, Gudjon Helgason

In this photo taken by a mobile phone, local people gather outside after being evacuated from buildings following an earthquake that hit the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, northwest China's Qinghai province, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. A series of strong earthquakes struck China's western Qinghai province Wednesday, toppling houses, killing scores of people and burying many others in a mountainous rural area, officials and state media said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhang Hongshuan) NO SALES (AP)

Carlos Eduardo Silva dos Santos, 24, peers out from under a wall where he is trapped as rescue workers try to free him after heavy rains in the Guarabita neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. The heaviest rains in Rio de Janeiro's history triggered landslides Tuesday that killed at least 95 people as rising water turned roads into rivers and paralyzed Brazil's second-largest city. (AP Photo/Jadson Marques, Agencia O Globo) (AP)

This photo provided by Jorge Rivera aka "cimarron98" via Twitter shows structural damage to the Escomex business school building after an earthquake in Mexicali, Mexico, Sunday, April 4, 2010. The 7.2-magnitude quake struck at 3:40 p.m. in Baja California, Mexico, about 19 miles southeast of Mexicali, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (AP Photo/Jorge Rivera) NO SALES. (AP)

Aftershocks shake Southern California

JAMES MacPHERSON

Associated Press

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