Buildings demolished in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, in village of Pattika, Pakistan

Boats tethered to a stone bench in the flooded town of Towyn in North Wales, UK.

Indonesia a kindergarten in banda aceh which lost many of children to tsunami, been rebuilt. schools director halimah anwar bustam (seen here in foreground) describes horrors suffered: area kids came from completely flattened by waves. On that fateful sunday children were in their homes, or many were already on beach having. So many died that morning. It devastating. Only we getting things back together, very grateful to helping with reconstruction of damaged building. staff give up a portion of their (already) salaries to sponsor poor children from outlying villages to come to school. structure includes offices staff, a library, prayer room wheelchair accessible classroom.__ Photograph taken in banda aceh, -december 2006, 2 years after tsunami of december 26th 2004 devasted much of coastal region. Taken to illustrate reconstruction work projects of (catholic relief services) of sponsored photo tour

India visits to post, tsunami site in srayickadu kollom, kerala, where cnewa funds relief efforts through the social services office of the syro, malankar church. Family of shaji gobal (47), fisherman, his wife jayasree (38) and their surviving daughter shinthu (15). They lost their other daughter, chikku (17) in the disaster. Note that the new house which they are in was built and donated by the matha amrithanandamayi mssion ashram, as were 1300 other houses in the area. Cnewa had managed to build one house during the 13 months since the disaster. Sp1140194

Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Uprooted trees have damaged a house, storm damage from 9 June 2014, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Poster with sympathetic notes and signatures, to remember the victims of the crowd crush at the Loveparade 2010, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Poster with sympathetic notes and signatures, to remember the victims of the crowd crush at the Loveparade 2010, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Love Parade 2010, spray chalk outline of a person killed in a stampede, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Love Parade 2010, spray chalk outlines of two people killed in a stampede, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Sign saying "warum?", "why?", and candles to commemorate the victims of the stampede at the Love Parade 2010, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Candles to commemorate the victims of the stampede at the Love Parade in 2010, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Temporary camp set up on a former football field, for refugees of the earthquake in January 2010, Port au Prince, Haiti, Central America

Floodwaters and fog, buildings on the bank of the Tauber river, seen from the Tauber river bridge on Bahnhofstrasse street from a southerly direction, Main estuary, Wertheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Floodwaters and fog, buildings on the bank of the Tauber river, seen from the Tauber river bridge on Bahnhofstrasse street from direction of Main estuary, Wertheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Charred, dead trees after a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

Teddy between candles to remember the victims of the crowd crush at the Loveparade 2010, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Hundreds of candles to remember the victims of the crowd crush at the Loveparade 2010, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Dry Isar riverbed, Sylvenstein, Upper Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Hundreds of candles to commemorate the victims of the crowd crush at the Love Parade 2010, Duisburg, Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Hundreds of candles to commemorate the victims of the crowd crush at the Love Parade 2010, Duisburg, Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe