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The bridge in Patikka. Despite the obvious danger, few hesitate to cross. After traveling through the mountains for miles and miles, survivors are eager to cross the bridge and reach the relative safety of the aid camps on the other side of the…

A young woman in a small make-shift tent hospital in Muzzafrabad is treated for getting the wrong medicine just after the quake. She is slowly dying and in a lot of pain. Doctors can only hope that she gets better. They don't have the right medicine…

Women wait for help at a temporary health clinic. Many of the survivors are desperately seeking help to cure their children's diseases.

On October 8th, 2005, a powerful earthquake struck the Kashmir region. The earthquake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, was centered in the Pakistani part of Kashmir and is the worst natural disaster in the country's history. More than…

A resident walks past a burning house fire in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans.

A woman is carried in a bedsheet after being rescued while trapped in her home in the Ninth Ward.

Bay St. Louis Emergency Management Agency volunteer crews rescue the Taylor family from the roof of their suburban, which became trapped on US 90 due to flooding during Hurricane Katrina in Bay St. Louis, Miss.

Residents, including a man with only one leg, wait on a rooftop to be evacuated from the flood waters of New Orleans as officials evacuate the city after Hurricane Katrina, Thursday morning, September 1, 2005.

A sandbag is lowered by water into the broken section of a the London Avenue Canal levee in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Sunday afternoon, September 4, 2005.

The body of a victim of Hurricane Katrina floats in floodwaters in New Orleans 01 September, 2005. Up to 300,000 survivors from the hurricane may still need to evacuated from disaster zones in Louisiana, Governor Kathleen Blanco said Thursday.