The worst catastrophes on earth.
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1. 23 year old petrified woman who was caught in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii in 79 A.D. https://t.co/Zhq3pIhnPW
2. Footage of Hiroshima in 1945, after the nuclear bomb was dropped on the city, which tragically led to the passing of around 140,000 citizens. https://t.co/wKSOusRCSC
3. The earthquake that occurred in Japan with a magnitude of 9.1 was on March 11, 2011. This devastating event, also known as the Great East Japan Earthquake or the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, caused widespread damage and triggered a massive tsunami that led to a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
4. Mother staying calm during the 2011 earthquake in Japan https://t.co/OXjlFI9G2O
5. Man films the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami as it hit in Phuket, Thailand. The disaster ended up claiming over 220,000 lives https://t.co/85yLtyvJ4p
6. When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was announced on TV in 1986 https://t.co/yhRHyztolI
7. In 1956, Maude Slocombe, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, appeared in a BBC television interview to share her experiences. https://t.co/8N5cz3rTAw
8. California earthquake of 1989 (Loma Prieta) https://t.co/72VOcPABZI
9. Co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima meets a Japanese survivor on a late night show called ‘This Is Your Life’, 1955 https://t.co/roIYApJb4V
10. Fungi that feeds on radiation are growing on the walls of Chernobyl's ruined nuclear reactor https://t.co/rkIRgofhOb
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