LiveScience.com has published a list of the top ten natural disaster threats which include earthquakes, hurricanes, asteroids, tsunamis, heat waves and volcanos.
Recently we have been unfortunate enough to witness several of these disasters. The recent onslaught of hurricanes, the massive earthquake in Pakistan that has killed over 70,000, last year's deadly tsunami and Europe's heat wave in 2003 that killed tens of thousands of people.