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Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters Press Kit

For Immediate Release
Contact: Field Museum PR Department
(312) 665-7100, media@fieldmuseum.org

Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters
Exhibition opens on Friday, May 23, 2008 

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Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters photo captions
 

Crushed Car
A collapsed house crushed a car in the Marina District of San Francisco, one of the areas worst hit by an earthquake estimated at 6.9 on the Richter scale that rocked California on October 17, 1989.
© Adam Teitelbaum/AFP/Getty Images
 
Mount St. Helens Eruption
The eruption of Mount St. Helens on July 22, 1980, showing an elutriate cloud from pyroclastic flow rising through cloud layer.
© USGS; Photo by Jim Vallance
 
Hurricane Dean
In August of 2007 Hurricane Dean pummeled the waterfront boulevard in downtown Kingston, Jamaica, with strong winds and torrential rains.
© Andres Leighton/AP Photo
 
Tornado from Distance
The first tornado captured by the National Severe Storms Laboratory Doppler radar and NSSL chase personnel. This tornado was located outside of Union City, Oklahoma, May 24, 1973.
© NOAA Photo Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
 
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