Damage: $81 billion total; $40.6 billion in insured losses
Deaths: direct and indirect: 1,833 total; 1,577 in Louisiana, 238 in Mississippi, 14 in Florida, two in Georgia, two in Alabama
Winds: Maximum winds extended a 25-30 mile radius; hurricane force winds extended 75 miles east of the center (on August 29)
Storm Surge: 15-19 feet of water in hardest hit areas
Tornadoes: 43 total; one in Florida, 20 in Georgia, 11 in Alabama, 11 in Mississippi
Evacuees: 1.2 million people in northern Gulf coast from Louisiana to Alabama were under evacuation order
Katrina: The Untold Story
Katrina: The Superdome
Kanye's Bush Statement
Bush & Aid Finally Arrive
Spike On the Levee Conspiracy
Unnatural Disaster--2008 BP OIL SPILL STATS
4.9 million: Barrels of oil (205.8 million gallons) leaked from the Deepwater Horizon well, about half the amount of crude oil the U.S. imports per day
19: Times more oil leaked from Deepwater Horizon than spilled from the Exxon Valdez in 1989 (10.8 million gallons)
62,000: Barrels leaking per day when the wellhead first broke, roughly the amount of oil consumed in Delaware each day
53,000: Barrels leaking per day when the well was capped on July 15, roughly the amount of oil consumed in Rhode Island each day
397.7 million: Dollars' worth of the oil spilled at current market prices ($81.17 per barrel)
665: Miles of coastline contaminated by oil
BP Aftermath
Mutated Seafood
HOW MUCH OIL WAS ACTUALLY SPILLED?
184,181: Times you could drive a Toyota Prius (48 mpg highway) around the Earth at the equator using the lost oil
69,068: Times you could drive a Hummer H3 (18 mpg highway) around the Earth
311: Olympic-size swimming pools that could be filled with the oil that leaked from Deepwater Horizon
13,208: Homes that could have been heated for one year (approximately 2 gallons of heating oil are produced from one barrel, with an average American household using 742 gallons per year)
Other Unnatural Disasters
The Great Chicago Fire
The Power of the 2004 Asian Tsunami
Deadliness: The deadliest tsunami since we've started to keep record of natural disasters
Energy released: Equivalent to the explosion of 475,000 kilotons of TNT, or 23,000 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs
Historical ranking: The fourth largest since 1900 and the world's biggest earthquake in the last 40 years; earthquake was 9.0 in magnitude
Number of countries damaged: 13, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, The Maldives and Somalia
Countries Damaged by the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Map displaying countries affected by December 2004 earthquake
Disaster and humanitarian crisis statistics
-Number of people killed: Latest figures indicate at least 226,000 dead, including 166,000 in Indonesia, 38,000 in Sri Lanka, 16, 000 in India 5300 in Thailand and 5000 foreign tourists
-Number of people injured: Over 500,000
-Potential additional deaths from infectious diseases 150,000
-Number of people affected: Up to 5 million people lost homes, or access to food and water
-Number of children affected : Around a third of the dead are children, and 1.5 million have been wounded, displaced or lost families
Un-Natural Disaster--Hurricane Katrina in 2005
Damage: $81 billion total; $40.6 billion in insured losses
Deaths: direct and indirect: 1,833 total; 1,577 in Louisiana, 238 in Mississippi, 14 in Florida, two in Georgia, two in Alabama
Winds: Maximum winds extended a 25-30 mile radius; hurricane force winds extended 75 miles east of the center (on August 29)
Storm Surge: 15-19 feet of water in hardest hit areas
Tornadoes: 43 total; one in Florida, 20 in Georgia, 11 in Alabama, 11 in Mississippi
Evacuees: 1.2 million people in northern Gulf coast from Louisiana to Alabama were under evacuation order
Katrina: The Untold Story
Katrina: The Superdome
Kanye's Bush Statement
Bush & Aid Finally Arrive
Spike On the Levee Conspiracy
Unnatural Disaster--2008 BP OIL SPILL STATS
4.9 million: Barrels of oil (205.8 million gallons) leaked from the Deepwater Horizon well, about half the amount of crude oil the U.S. imports per day
19: Times more oil leaked from Deepwater Horizon than spilled from the Exxon Valdez in 1989 (10.8 million gallons)
62,000: Barrels leaking per day when the wellhead first broke, roughly the amount of oil consumed in Delaware each day
53,000: Barrels leaking per day when the well was capped on July 15, roughly the amount of oil consumed in Rhode Island each day
397.7 million: Dollars' worth of the oil spilled at current market prices ($81.17 per barrel)
665: Miles of coastline contaminated by oil
BP Aftermath
Mutated Seafood
HOW MUCH OIL WAS ACTUALLY SPILLED?
184,181: Times you could drive a Toyota Prius (48 mpg highway) around the Earth at the equator using the lost oil
69,068: Times you could drive a Hummer H3 (18 mpg highway) around the Earth
311: Olympic-size swimming pools that could be filled with the oil that leaked from Deepwater Horizon
13,208: Homes that could have been heated for one year (approximately 2 gallons of heating oil are produced from one barrel, with an average American household using 742 gallons per year)
Other Unnatural Disasters
The Great Chicago Fire
The Power of the 2004 Asian Tsunami
Deadliness: The deadliest tsunami since we've started to keep record of natural disasters
Energy released: Equivalent to the explosion of 475,000 kilotons of TNT, or 23,000 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs
Historical ranking: The fourth largest since 1900 and the world's biggest earthquake in the last 40 years; earthquake was 9.0 in magnitude
Number of countries damaged: 13, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, The Maldives and Somalia
Countries Damaged by the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Disaster and humanitarian crisis statistics
-Number of people killed: Latest figures indicate at least 226,000 dead, including 166,000 in Indonesia, 38,000 in Sri Lanka, 16, 000 in India 5300 in Thailand and 5000 foreign tourists
-Number of people injured: Over 500,000
-Potential additional deaths from infectious diseases 150,000
-Number of people affected: Up to 5 million people lost homes, or access to food and water
-Number of children affected : Around a third of the dead are children, and 1.5 million have been wounded, displaced or lost families
CBS Coverage of the 2004 Asian Tsunami
2004 Asian Tsunami Footage