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Landscape photography and natural catastrophes


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Natural catastrophes
Earthquakes
2Earthquakes
3Earthquake: San Francisco (1868)
4Ogawa Kazumasa: The Great Earthquake of Japan (1891)
5USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906
6USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 - The photographers
Volcanic eruptions
7USA, Washington, Mount St. Helens eruption (1980)
Fires
8Fires
Typhoons
9China: Typhoon (September 1874)
Hurricanes
10Hurricanes
11USA, Hurricane Katrina
Human activity
12Natural catastrophes provoked by human activity
13John Darwell: Legacy - Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Conclusions
14Thoughts on natural catastrophes

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