Reuters Pictures of the Year 2017 : Natural Disasters

2. Pictures of the Year: Natural Disasters

3. An aerial view of properties destroyed by the Tubbs Fire is seen in Santa Rosa, California, October 11. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

4. Residents wade through flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey in
Beaumont Place, Houston, Texas, August 28. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman

5. Smoke fills the sky above a burning hillside as tourists relax on the beach in Bormes-
les-Mimosas, in the Var department, France, July 26. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

6. Rescue workers and Mexican soldiers
take part in a rescue operation at a
collapsed building after an earthquake at
the Obrera neighborhood in Mexico City,
September 20. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

7. A worker uses a table to move
along a flooded street after
heavy rainfall in Sao Paulo,
Brazil April 7. REUTERS/Nacho
Doce

8. A woman is assisted while crossing a flooded street after the Huaycoloro river flooded its banks in Huachipa, Peru, March 17. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo

9. Tomasa Mozo, 69, a
housewife, looks up at the
roof as she poses for a
portrait inside the ruins of her
house after an earthquake in
San Jose Platanar, at the
epicenter zone, Mexico,
September 28. The house was
badly damaged but with the
help of her family Mozo
rescued some furniture. She
lives in another room of her
house and hopes to repair
the damage as soon as
possible. "I'm afraid to go out,
I can not sleep," Mozo said.
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

10. Vessels that sank during Hurricane Irma are seen on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, September 16. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

11. The Eagle Creek wildfire burns as golfers play at the Beacon Rock Golf Course
in North Bonneville, Washington, September 4. REUTERS/Kristi McCluer

12. Rescue workers drag damaged cars out of debris and mud after a flood in Yongji, Jilin province, China, July 17. CNS/Yang Zaixin via REUTERS

13. A rescue helicopter hovers in
the background as an elderly
woman and her poodle use
an air mattress to float above
flood waters from Tropical
Storm Harvey while waiting
to be rescued from Scarsdale
Boulevard in Houston, Texas,
August 27. REUTERS/Adrees
Latif

14. Villagers are seen during a forest fire in the town of Litueche in the O'Higgins region, south of Chile, January 24. REUTERS/Carlos Vera

15. A woman wades through a submerged street in the UNESCO heritage town of Hoi An after Typhoon Damrey hit Vietnam, November 6. REUTERS/Kham

16. Carmen De Jesus uses a flashlight at the Moradas Las
Teresas Elderly House, where about two hundred elderly
people live without electricity, following damages caused
by Hurricane Maria in Carolina, Puerto Rico, September
30. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

17. A resident looks at a wildfire in Vina del Mar, Chile, March 12. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

18. Cattle killed by wildfires lie in pasture burned by wildfires near Higgins, Texas, March 12. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

19. A burnt house is seen following a forest fire in Vila Nova, near Vouzela, Portugal, October 16. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

20. A villager is seen following an eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano, in Beganding Village, Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, August 2. REUTERS/YT Haryono

21. A dog waits to be rescued in a destroyed area after
mudslides caused by heavy rains in Manizales,
Colombia, April 19. REUTERS/Santiago Osorio

22. Roberto Morales Santos, 70, looks out after
posing for a portrait in his home, damaged by
Hurricane Maria, in the municipality of
Barranquitas, outside San Juan, Puerto Rico,
October 11. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

23. Tropical Storm Harvey in Orange, Texas, August 30. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman

24. Rescuers work at the site of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Mexico City, September 20. REUTERS/Henry Romero

25. Wildfires burn along the Twelve Apostles area of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, October 13. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

26. Residents use boats to evacuate flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey along Tidwell Road, east Houston, Texas, August 28. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

27. The Tampa skyline is seen in the background as local
residents (L-R) Rony Ordonez, Jean Dejesus and
Henry Gallego take photographs after walking into
Hillsborough Bay ahead of Hurricane Irma in Tampa,
Florida, September 10. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

28. Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 6. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

29. Rescue personnel help Hersey Kirk into a
restraint as a rescue helicopter hovers in
the distance after she was rescued from
her home flooded by Tropical Storm
Harvey in Rose City, Texas, U.S. on August
31. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman

30. The La Tuna Canyon fire over Burbank, California, September 2. REUTERS/ Kyle Grillot

31. A man casts his fishing net in the flood waters next to his partially submerged hut in Morigaon
district in the northeastern state of Assam, India, August 17. REUTERS/Anuwar Hazarika

32. A destroyed car is stuck at the entrance of a house following flash floods which hit areas west of Athens,
killing at least 15 people, in Mandra, Greece, November 16. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

33. A sunken boat is pictured in an aerial photo in the Keys in Marathon, Florida, September 13. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

34. Support beams are placed on a crumbling wall of a room during the search for students at the Enrique
Rebsamen school after an earthquake in Mexico City, September 21. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

35. A firefighter rides a motorbike away from a forest fire next to the village of Macao, near Castelo Branco, Portugal, July 26. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante

36. A girl hugs a Mexican marine
officer as she offers hugs to
people near the site of a
collapsed building after an
earthquake, in Mexico City,
September 23. REUTERS/Jose
Luis Gonzalez

37. The contents of a
damaged home
can be seen as
recovery efforts
continue
following
Hurricane Maria
near the town of
Comerio, Puerto
Rico, October 7.
REUTERS/Lucas
Jackson

38. A cow walks amidst the debris of burnt
houses after recent wildfires in the Siberian
settlement of Strelka, located on the bank
of the Angara River in Krasnoyarsk region,
Russia, May 25. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

39. horse runs from burning
grasslands of the Long
Valley fire near Doyle,
California, July 13. Lassen
County Sheriff's Office/via
REUTERS

40. A firefighter is seen near flames from a forest fire in Cabanoes, near Lousa, Portugal, October 16. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

41. Rescue members walk
during the burial of a
companion who died after
flooding and mudslides
caused by heavy rains lead
several rivers to overflow,
pushing sediment and rocks
into buildings and roads, in
Mocoa, Colombia, April 4.
REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga

42. Boats wrecked by Hurricane Irma are seen
from a plane in Sint Maarten, Netherlands
September 11. REUTERS/Alvin Baez

43. A religious statue slumps
to the side after an
earthquake hit the
island of Ischia, near
Naples, Italy, August 22.
REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

44. Debris rolls down the rockface of a mountain after
an earthquake outside Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan province,
China, August 10. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

45. Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 25. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

46. Earthquake in Mexico City, September 20. REUTERS/Henry Romero

47. Trees denuded by Hurricane Irma line a hilltop on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, September 16. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

48. Disneyland is seen as wildfires rage in Anaheim, California, October 9. INSTAGRAM /@KENNYA.BOULTER/Kennya Boulter via REUTERS

49. A sign saying "Send Tesla" is
spelled out with remnants of a
nearby house destroyed by
Hurricane Irma as the occupant
camps on the site, twelve days
after the devastating storm raked
the island, on the northern shore
of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
September 16, 2017.
REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

50. A military vehicle evacuates about two
dozen residents from the Autumn Chase
Park apartments while pushing its way
through flood waters caused by Tropical
Storm Harvey in Port Arthur, Texas,
August 31. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

51. The remains of burnt houses are
seen through the window of a
destroyed house as the worst
wildfires in Chile's modern
history ravage wide swaths of
the country's central-south
regions, in Santa Olga, Chile
January 26. REUTERS/Pablo
Sanhueza

52. Local residents ride a horse by a destroyed building after Hurricane Maria in Jayuya, Puerto Rico, October 4. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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