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

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