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Flags decorate a fence Thursday, April 25, 2013, in Brick, N.J., around the burned remains of more than 60 small bungalows at Camp Osborn which were destroyed last October during Superstorm Sandy. Six months after Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal areas of New England, the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating, yet often hopeful, recovery. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Superstorm Sandy homes still damaged, 6 months later

Six months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal areas of New England, the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating, yet often hopeful, recovery.

  • 3:22 p.m. Sunday, April 28, 2013
This picture taken on March 11, 2011 by Sadatsugu Tomizawa and released via Jiji Press on March 21, 2011 shows tsunami waves hitting the coast of Minamisoma in Fukushima prefecture. The number of people confirmed dead or listed as missing in Japan neared 22,000, 10 days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country's northeast coast. AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS (Photo credit should read SADATSUGU TOMIZAWA/AFP/Getty Images)

Looking back at the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami

A look back at the destruction and subsequent recovery from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

  • 8:34 a.m. Monday, March 11, 2013
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster. The German passenger airship caught fire and exploded on May 6, 1937 killing 35 people and shocking the world.

Stunning images of the Hindenburg disaster

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster. The German passenger airship caught fire and exploded on May 6, 1937 killing 35 people and shocking the world.

  • 11:00 a.m. Thursday, May 10, 2012
The SS 'Titanic', leaving Belfast to start her trials, pulled by tugs, shortly before her disastrous maiden voyage of April 1912. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Haunting photos of the Titanic disaster

2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the most famous maritime disaster in history.

  • 1:59 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Major quake rocks Mexico

A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, shaking central and southern parts of the country, collapsing a pedestrian bridge and swaying buildings in Mexico City.

  • 4:34 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Inside Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant

Take a tour inside Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.

  • 6:50 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012
Shipwreck passengers offered $14,460 to not sue

Shipwreck passengers offered $14,460 to not sue

Passengers of the cruise liner Costa Concordia are offered an immediate payout of less than $15,000 in exchange for not suing.

  • 1:24 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012
A reality television stunt that went awry sent a cannonball careening into a residential Dublin neighborhood late Tuesday afternoon, punching holes through the front door and a wall of a home and smashing a minivan's window, but luckily leaving area residents unharmed.

IMAGES: Photo tour of damage from MythBusters' cannonball

  • 7:40 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011

Raging wildfire destroying Reno homes

Police in Reno went house to house in the middle of the night, pounding on doors and telling residents they had to evacuate as a roughly 400-acre blaze raged in rough terrain, destroyed homes and injured some people. About 9,500 people from the edge of the city have been evacuated ...

  • 10:27 a.m. Friday, Nov. 18, 2011
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