These 19 amazing photographs taken during or after natural disasters show the destructive power of mother nature. From stunning pictures of supercell thunderstorms in the US to volcanic eruptions in Iceland, these images truly are breathtakingly awesome. They also happen to be very, very brutal.
1) Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption, 2010 (Iceland)
Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson
2) Landslide destroys Highway 1 in California, 2011 (US)
CalCoastNews
3) Supercell storm moving across northeast Nebraska, 2004 (US)
Mike Hollingshead
4) Catastrophic earthquake destroys the town of Léogâne, 2010 (Haiti)
Jean-Claude Coutausse
5) Undersea volcano erupts near the island of Hunga Tonga, 2009 ( Tonga)
Lothar Slabon
6) A large and deadly wildfire in Montana, 2000 (US)
Reuters
7) Hurricane Sandy batters a pier in New Jersey, 2012 (US)
Business Insider
8) Mount St. Helens erupts, 1980 (US)
Ursi’s Blog
9) Two men get around in a boat in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (US)
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10) Japanese home drifts in the ocean after 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami, 2011 (Japan)
ABC News
11) A massive river of lava flows into the ocean around Hawaii, 2009 (US)
Miles Morgan
12) Young man gets marooned by flood waters following a monsoon, 2010 (Pakistan)
Stringer
13) Huge crack in a highway after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Negros and Cebu, 2012 (Philippines)
Inquirer
14) Monsoon Rain on the Jamuna river, 2006 (India)
boston.com
15) Supercell thunderstorm in Montana, 2010 (US)
Sean R. Heavey
16) Ash clouds above The Buang Valley on the upper ridge of the Mayon Volcano, 1984 (Philippines)
FEWW
17) Volcano erupts during storms in the middle of the night, 2008 (Chile)
Carlos Gutierrez
18) Double cyclone photographed from space, 2006 (Iceland)
Jesse Allen
19) Lightning storm in Roswell, New Mexico, 2010 (US)
Mark Wilson
One thing’s for sure. I’m never going to question nature’s power over its inhabitants.
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