IRAN QUAKE
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit Iran's southeastern Kerman province on Dec. 26, 2003, and flattened the city of Bam, killing 31,000 people.
JAPAN QUAKE/TSUNAMI
A 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's northeast on March 11, 2011, killing about 15,690 people. The earthquake also triggered the world's biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
INDIA QUAKE
A 7.9 magnitude quake struck India's industrial heartland of Gujarat on Jan. 26, 2001, killing at least 14,000 people, injuring over 150,000 and leaving millions of people homeless.
NEPAL QUAKE
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake hammered Nepal on April 25, 2015, killing nearly 9,000 people and disrupting the lives of more than eight million.
INDONESIA QUAKE/TSUNAMI
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Sept. 28, 2018, resulting in a 1.5 metre (4.9 ft)-high tsunami and killing more than 4,300 people.
HAITI 2021 QUAKE
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti on Aug. 14, 2021, killing more than 2,200 people and destroying or damaging about 13,000 homes.
HURRICANE KATRINA
Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005, swamping floodwalls, putting much of the city under 15 feet (4.57 m) of water and killing about 1,800 people. Most victims were in Louisiana, but neighbouring Mississippi also was hard hit.
