Global Natural Disaster Deaths, 1990-2004

Police shovel debris as they continue their search through the rubble for unrecovered bodies of earthquake and fire victims in the Nagata section of Kobe Tuesday, Jan. 24, 1995. Nagata was one of the worst hit areas where hundreds of small houses burned to ashes in the fire that followed the earthquake of Magnitude 7.2 on Jan. 17. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami)

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