In the past 100 years the world has seen its share of disaster and with the advancement of photographic technology it has become progressively easier to document it. Some of the photos in this list were chosen because of their surreal nature while other were chosen due to their shock factor. Either way though, these are the 25 hardest to forget disaster photographs in recent history.
Resulting in over 300,000 deaths and leaving over a tenth of Haiti’s population homeless, the country is still in shambles to this day.Even to this day New Orleans hasn’t fully recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.In 1923 a devastating earthquake shook Japan. The photo you see here was the aftermath of a fire tornado decimating a refugee camp with almost 40,000 people.After a reservoir exploded in Hungary in 2010 both animals and people were smothered and burned by the acidic and forceful blast.The year 1970 was not nice to the countries of Bangladesh and India. With the Bhola cyclone enfulfing the two nations they experienced one of the worst natural disasters in history with over half a million casualties.Spewing ash and gas over 15 miles into the atmosphere and blanketing more than 11 states with ash, vehicles over 10 miles from the blast were melted like candle sticks from the mindblowing heat.When almost a fifth of Pakistan was flooded in 2010 thousands of people died due to an outbreak of diseases like malaria, cholera, and diarrhea.As a result of some strange weather patterns almost all of London’s coal emissions were redirected right back down on the city. Because the city already has a good bit of gray fogginess to it no one noticed anything unusual until thousands of people had already died.In 2010 nearly the entire Australian state of Queensland was declared a disaster zone after severe flood destroyed the region and caused massive evacuations.Known as the Storm of the Century, the entire eastern seaboard of the United States was affected. Several hundred people died in snowstorms while dozens more were lost at sea and numerous houses crashed into the ocean up and down the coast.Also known as the BP Oil Spill, it flowed unabated for three months into the Gulf of Mexico causing extensive damage to marine life and severely crippling the fishing and tourism industries.In recent years Mecca has been the site of numerous deadly incidents resulting from uncontrollable stampedes.After a deadly cloud of carbon dioxide gas covered the country of Cameroon in 1986 over 1,700 people lost their lives along with a number of animals and livestock. The cloud was emitted by Lake Nyos that sits atop a long dormant volcano. Apparently deadly gasses had built up in the lake crater over hundreds of years.In 2007 about a dozen homes in downtown Guatemala City slid down into a sinkhole about 30 stories deep.The tsunami began in the Indian Ocean as a result of the 3rd largest earthquake on record and ended with over a quarter million people dead.1 2
How is the Hindenburg not on this list?
isn’t there supposed to be the Halifax explosion?
Isn’t Chernobyl on this page?
I think it should be the first one or, at least, one of the firsts…