From Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, one of 39 photos. Lightning from a thunderstorm strikes amid the wreckage of twisted cars and structures at Plaza Elementary School, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma, on May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
From Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma, updated - one of 38 photos. Residents pass a destroyed car as they walk through a tornado-ravaged neighborhood of Moore, Oklahoma, on May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
From Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma, one of 30 photos. Here, an aerial photo of a neighborhood hit by a massive tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Gooch)
From Sichuan Earthquake: Five Years Later, one of 26 photos. Here, residents gather before a monument on the 5th anniversary of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, on May 12, 2013, in Yingxiu township of Wenchuan county, Sichuan province. China. (AFP/Getty Images)
From Rescue Efforts Halted at Collapsed Bangladesh Building, one of 39 photos. Rescue workers attempt to rescue garment workers from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 28, 2013. Hope for survivors under the rubble of a building that collapsed outside the capital of Bangladesh faded on Sunday. With more than 900 people still counted as missing fears grew that the death toll could rise far beyond the latest figures. (Reuters/Stringer)
From Sichuan Earthquake Recovery, one of 39 photos. A rescuer walks in front of a damaged building after Saturday’s earthquake in Lingguan town of Baoxing county, Sichuan province, on April 22, 2013. Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country’s worst earthquake in three years climbed to 208 with 11,000 injuries. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya’an in the southwestern province of Sichuan, close to where a devastating 7.9 quake hit in May 2008, killing 70,000. (Reuters/Aly Song)
From Texas’s Fertilizer Plant Explosion, one of 40 photos. The wreckage of a fertilizer plant burns after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas last week, early on April 18, 2013. The deadly explosion ripped through the fertilizer plant late on Wednesday, injuring more than 160 people, leveling dozens of homes and damaging other buildings including a school and nursing home, authorities said. (Reuters/Mike Stone)
From Manhunt Underway, Boston Under Lockdown, one of 48 photos. Members of different law enforcement agencies, in an area around Franklin Street in Watertown, Massachusetts, on April 19, 2013, at the end of a 22-hour manhunt. After a car chase and shootout with police, one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was shot and killed by police early morning April 19, and his brother and second suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev was captured later the same night, after being found hiding inside a boat in the backyard of a Watertown residence. The two men are suspects in the bombings of the Boston Marathon on April 15 that killed three people and wounded at least 170. (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
From Google Maps a Japanese Nuclear Ghost Town, one of 33 photos. The empty shell of the tsunami-damaged Tanashio meeting house stands in Namie town, Japan, just north of the failed Fukushima nuclear power plant. Google recently sent its Street View team into Namie, still within the nuclear exclusion zone, to document the empty streets and fields, deserted now for more than two years. (© Google, Inc.)
From Japan Earthquake, 2 Years Later: Before and After, one of 18 photo pairs. The tsunami-devastated Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture, is pictured in this side-by-side comparison photo taken March 12, 2011 (left) and March 4, 2013 (right), ahead of the two-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that damaged so much of northeastern Japan. (Reuters/Kyodo)
From Northeast Slammed by Blizzard, one of 28 photos. Ice clings to Ken Anderson’s eyebrows and mustache as he uses a snowblower during a blizzard, on February 9, 2013, in Portland, Maine. The storm dumped more than 30 inches of snow as of Saturday afternoon, breaking the local record for the biggest storm. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
From Hurricane Sandy: 80 Days Later, one of 26 photos. Tens of thousands of vehicles damaged by Hurricane Sandy are temporarily stored on runways and taxiways at Calverton Executive Airpark in Calverton, New York, on January 9, 2013. Insurance Auto Auctions Inc, a salvage auto auction company specializing in total-loss vehicles, acquired the cars and trucks that were damaged, destroyed or flooded by the storm and needed a place to store them. The company made a deal with the Town of Riverhead to lease the airport land and then the vehicles are auctioned online. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)
From Nigeria’s Illegal Oil Refineries, one of 30 photos. Smoke rises as an illegal oil refinery burns after a military chase in a winding creek near river Nun in Nigeria’s oil state of Bayelsa, on December 6, 2012. Thousands of people in Nigeria engage in a practice known locally as “oil bunkering” - hacking into pipelines to steal crude then refining it or selling it abroad. The practice, which leaves oil spewing from pipelines for miles around, managed to lift around a fifth of Nigeria’s two million barrel a day production last year according to the finance ministry. (Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye)
From Typhoon Bopha, one of 28 photos. A typhoon victim holds a bag of relief goods as she walks among debris swept by floodwaters at the height of Typhoon Bopha, while returning to an evacuation center in New Bataan town in Compostela Valley, southern Philippines, on December 7, 2012. Residents in the southern Philippines buried their dead over the weekend, even as rescue workers continued scouring remote areas for survivors of Typhoon Bopha, the nation’s strongest storm this year, which killed nearly 650 people and left nearly 800 missing. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)
From Hurricane Sandy: Staten Island Survivors, one of 19 photos. Kim Joyce stands in front of the remains of her home destroyed by Hurricane Sandy on Crescent Beach, Staten Island, on November 14, 2012. Joyce, who owned one of the last remaining beach bungalow style houses on the south shore of the island, had to swim to safety as the storm crashed through her house. She had to leave her pets behind but she returns each day in the hope that one of her nine cats will reappear. So far she has found the bodies of two of them. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
