The Chaiten volcano eruption in Chile during a storm in the middle of the night on May 3.


Aerial photograph of the column of ash expelled by the volcano Chaiten in Chile, May 31.


A soldier near the Rio Blanco looking at the cloud of ash on June 25 Chaiten in Chile.


A mother cries as Chinese soldiers carry the body of his son buried when a school collapsed as a result of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, May 13.


Photographs of the May 17 showing the devastation caused by the earthquake in Beichuan, in Sichuan


Car completely crushed under a huge rock in Beichuan in Sichuan Province, May 16.


An elderly woman mourns the loss of her grandson who died under the foundations of a primary school because of the earthquake in Yingxiu, Sichuan Province, May 16


A man catching a cushion of an apartment destroyed by the earthquake in Yingxiu, Sichuan Province in China on May 27.


Help by parachute was launched in May 24 on the area affected by the earthquake in Sichuan.


Chinese paramilitary soldiers trasporting a giant panda from the conservation center that was located 30 kilometers from the epicenter of magnitude 7.8, on May 23.


Image of Hurricane Ike taken by the crew of the International Space Station 354 kilometers above the Earth on September 10


A house fire on the Galveston island in Texas, as Hurricane Ike approaches


A fish locked on a metal fence in Texas after being absorbed and released into the air by Hurricane Ike on September 15 in West Orange.


A young lion rests near the altar of the First Baptist Church in Crystal City, Texas, the image was captured on September. The animal was part of the zoo and was locked in the church by its owner before the arrival of the hurricane


People seeking refuge after water flooding in eastern Nepal on August 24. More than two million people were affected by flooding.


2 small livestock isolated islands following the flooding in the Indian state of Bihar, September 7.


A boy poses in front of his village destroyed by Cyclone Nargis, south of Yangon, Burma, May 12


Searching for survivors in the ruins of a school in the Haitian capital, Port Prícipe, November 7


A person close to the victims arguing with a police officer at the site of a collapsed school in Petionville, Haiti, on November 9.


A huge tornado "touched" Orchard, Iowa, at 9:04 in the evening on June 10


Remains of houses in Prattville, Alabama on February 17, after several storms and tornadoes that hit several parts of the U.S. city


Photo taken on October 13, cars driving away from the flames in Los Angeles.


A firefighter uses a flare to mark a fire in an area near the caón of Tujunga, north of Los Angeles, in the early hours of October 12.


In this June 25 photo, a U.S. Navy Seahawk helicopter hovers around the sunken passenger ferry, the MV Princess of the Stars, while divers continue the rescue operation, in the Philippines. A storm overturned the seven-storey ferry.


An ambulance is covered with mud after a landslide occurred in Villar Pellice, near Turin, Italy, on May 29


Vehicles are trapped at the site of a collapsed subway tunnel in Hangzhou, China, on November 15


The broken spillway of a vanadium mine is seen in Shanyang county, Shaanxi province, China, on July 22


A firefighter climbs across a wire to evacuate residents stranded by floods caused by a mudslide in Chuxiong, China, on November 2


Workers load the carcasses of horses into a truck at an equestrian club in Mexico City on August 26. Heavy rain caused floods, drowning at least 50 trapped horses and killing a night watchman.