Hurricane Helene, which struck the US, Cuba and Mexico in September, caused at least $55bn in losses as well as 232 ...
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...
Papua New Guinea was the site of another of the year's deadliest natural disasters in May. More than 670 people were killed when an earthquake and landslide hit the Enga province in the northern ...