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Topic: Natural Disasters (page 14)

Associated Press

A New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue worker walks through the central business district during a search of earthquake damaged buildings in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Police said the death toll from the quake had reached 158 and was expected to rise further following the Feb. 22. 2011, 6.3 magnitude temblor. Around 200 people are listed as missing. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, Pool) (AP)

New Zealand ends search for quake survivors

Adam Clark Estes

An aerial view of emergency services people working at the ruined CTV building in central in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Search teams used their bare hands, dogs, heavy cranes and earth movers Wednesday to pull survivors from the rubble of Tuesday's powerful earthquake. (AP Photo/Sarah Ivey) AUSTRALIA OUT, NEW ZEALAND OUT (AP)

Rescue efforts continue day after NZ quake

Kristen Gelineau

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In this image made from video run by New Zealand's TV3, an injured person is carried on a street in Christchurch, New Zealand Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the city. (AP Photo/TV3 via Associated Press Television News) NEW ZEALAND OUT, TV OUT (AP)

New Zealand: Images from the earthquake

Peter Finocchiaro

A building in Christchurch, New Zealand, is destroyed after an earthquake struck Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. The 6.3-magnitude quake collapsed buildings and is sending rescuers scrambling to help trapped people amid reports of multiple deaths. (AP Photo/NZPA, Pam Johnson) NEW ZEALAND OUT, NO ARCHIVES, NO SALES (AP)

Scientists: Earth may be "unrecognizable" by 2050

Peter Finocchiaro

Actress Daryl Hannah visits Ecuador's oil region in June, 2010, where locals say drilling by Chevron caused irreparable environmental damage.

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More than 500 people died in the 8.8 earthquake on Feb. 27, 2010. No casualties have been reported in today's quake.

6.8 magnitude earthquake rocks Chile

Dramatization of Apophis asteroid striking Earth

Asteroid could strike Earth in 2036

Marques Lewis sweeps snow from his car, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011, in Salina, Kan. Lewis said he was "getting ready to go to work" and had to "start a little early." Three to four inches had fallen in the Salina area by mid-morning with the temperature at five degrees. (AP Photo/Salina Journal, Tom Dorsey) (AP)

Justin Juozapavicius

A man helps an elderly woman cross a snow-covered street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (AP)

Boston Snow Party: Cities struggle to clear snow

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A man works to repair damage to the roof of his house while his dogs inspect a fallen tree in Kamma, Australia, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph (300 kph). The massive cyclone struck northeastern Australia early Thursday, tearing off roofs, toppling trees and cutting electricity to more than 170,000 people, the most powerful storm to hit the area in nearly a century. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) (AP)

Kristen Gelineau

This image provided by NASA shows Tropical Cyclone Yasi as it approaches Queensland, Australia, Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011. This NEXSAT image captured this natural-color image at 04:32 GMT Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011. The Category 5 storm is expected to make landfall at approximately noon GMT Wednesday. Gusts up to 186 mph (300 kph) were expected when Cyclone Yasi strikes the Australian coast Wednesday after whipping across Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The storm front is more than 310 miles (500 kilometers) wide and Yasi is so strong, it could reach far inland before it significantly loses power. (AP Photo/NASA - Jeff Schmaltz) (AP)

Kristen Gelineau

Snow plows drive westbound along Interstate 70 Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 in Columbia, Mo. Earlier in the day, the Missouri Department of Transportation closed Interstate 70 between Kansas City and St. Louis because of the storm, which is expected to dump between 18 and 24 inches of snow across mid-Missouri. (AP Photo/The Columbia Daily Tribune, Joshua A. Bickel) (AP)

Lydia Vasquez scrapes ice from the windshield of her automobile in Denver on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. A front moved through the state early Monday morning bringing with it freezing rain, snow and cold. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) (AP)

Snowed In: Shots from storm that shut down Chicago

Peter Finocchiaro

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Snowpocalypse '11: photos of a beautiful disaster

Peter Finocchiaro

A snowball fight breaks out at Dupont Circle in Washington in the still-falling snow, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Monsivais) (AP)

Steam rises from chimneys on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 in Montpelier, Vt. Bone-chilling cold has prompted schools around the Northeast to delay openings and some canceled classes altogether on Monday. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot) (AP)

Fans walk toward the stadium in the cold before the AFC Championship NFL football game in between the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) (AP)

Associated Press

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Quetta, Pakistan

Parke Kunkle, the scientist behind the new zodiac rumors, teaches astronomy at Minneapolis Community and Technical College.

Adam Clark Estes

In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, earthquake survivors Prevener Julien, left, and his son Belix Julien, eight-years-old, recall the day the earthquake hit Haiti last January 12, 2010, as he talks to a reporter in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) (AP)

Haitian-Americans demand visas 1 year after quake

A worker with U.S. Environmental Services, a private contractor, picks up a dead bird in Beebe, Ark. on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011 as more can be seen on the street behind him. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday more than 1,000 dead black birds fell from the sky in Beebe. The agency said its enforcement officers began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. Friday. (AP Photo/The Daily Citizen, Warren Watkins) RETRANSMISSION FOR LARGER FILE (AP)

Adam Clark Estes

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