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Contents

Introduction
1Natural catastrophes
Drought
2The Dust Bowl
3Black Blizzards
Earthquakes
4Earthquakes
5USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906
6USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 - The photographers
Famines
7Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Indian famine (1876-1878)
Fires
8Fires
Floods
9Floods in Nantes, France (1843)
10Édouard Baldus: Inondations du Rhône à Lyon et Avignon (1856)
Hurricanes and typhoons
11Hurricanes
12USA, Hurricane Katrina
13China: Typhoon (September 1874)
Volcanic eruptions
14Giorgio Sommer: Eruption of Vesuvius (1872)
15Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii
16USA, Washington, Mount St. Helens eruption (1980)
Provoked by human activity
17Natural catastrophes provoked by human activity
Concluding thoughts
18Thoughts on natural catastrophes

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