from a tornado in Iowa tearing the doors
off of a building and an earthquake in
Turkey striking without warning to a
mudslide in Switzerland washing away a
man's entire livelihood and a powerful
flash flood bursting through a
Hospital's Windows here are five
incredible natural disasters that were
caught on CCTV cameras
Norwalk is a small City in Warren County
Iowa just south of the Des Moines
International Airport and about 20
minutes outside the capital though
technically on the outskirts of Tornado
Alley USA Iowa still sees its fair share
of Twisters every year according to the
National Weather Service they
experienced 114 tornadoes in 2021 the
second most in a single year for the
state typical tornado season in Iowa is
between May and June but 2022 decided to
kick things off early with a powerful
storm on March 5th a series of CCTV
cameras around a Public Works building
captured several angles as the tornado
passed through in the first shot we see
the moment the wind tears down the
garage doors one by one we also see
loose debris whipping around the
exterior and interior of the building
when some debris hits the gas pumps
things get a little concerning but it
looks like they remain in one piece the
National Weather Service reported that
the March 5th event spawned 15 tornadoes
including the first ef-4 storm in Iowa
since 2013. it also traveled over 70 and
a half miles making it one of the
longest tornadoes since 1982.
fortunately nobody inside the Public
Works building was injured
cifera Hisar is a coastal District in
Izmir Province turkey sitting right on
the banks of the icarian sea on Friday
October 30th of 2020 a 6.6 magnitude
earthquake struck 10 miles off the coast
of severe Hisar according to turkey's
disaster and Emergency Management
Authority or the afad the severehisarque
was so powerful that it was felt almost
300 miles away in Istanbul CCTV footage
from inside an office captured the
moment when the earthquake struck
incredible
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you can see the dangling lights swinging
around as a woman tries to keep her
balance it looks like a cat Sprints in
and out of the office as other workers
hang on for dear life in a separate part
of the building one guy hides under a
desk moments before what looks like a
light fixture would have given him a
nasty concussion another angle from
inside the first office shows co-workers
clinging to each other for dear life
according to the Turkish Red Cross also
known as the red crescent Society the
earthquake caused severe damage to
several structures across the city
reports indicated that at least four
buildings collapsed as a result and 12
lives were sadly lost
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Village in Switzerland just over the
Swiss Italian border only a couple of
hundred people lived in the town when a
freak mudslide in August of 2017 forced
about half of them to evacuate sources
say the village was almost whipped away
when four million cubic meters of mud
and rock traveled three miles from the
bondaska valley stopping mere feet from
the Bondo border CCTV footage from one
man's carpentry Shop shows the mud river
flowing with unstoppable force in one
moment it's sunny and calm the next his
entire shop is being washed away
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it washes away everything in sight
leaving nothing but a thick gray mud
pool in its wake wood supplies entire
buildings and even his massive silos
weren't sturdy enough to withstand the
force Reuters reported that eight people
were missing a day after the landslide
sadly it looks like they didn't make it
the August 2017 event was the biggest
Landslide Switzerland had seen in 130
years and the government made plans to
invest over 12 million dollars into
rebuilding infrastructure in Bondo
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feet above sea level mount ontake is the
second largest volcano in Japan behind
Mount Fuji on September 27th of 2014
Mount ontake experienced a violent
eruption that claimed the lives of 60
hikers according to the earthquake
Research Institute at the University of
Tokyo Mount ontake sat dormant until
1979 when it experienced its first
record eruption since then it has
experienced smaller eruptions in 1991
and 2007. a stationary camera belonging
to the ministry of land infrastructure
and transport filmedontake as it erupted
from three large vents at the bottom of
the jigokudani valley a massive Ash
plume Bellows into the air after rolling
down the mountain it almost encompasses
the entire mountain by the video's end
according to the Daily Beast the 2014
eruption was the first deadly eruption
in Japan since 1991 when Mount unzen
claimed 43 lives in the aftermath the
families of those that perished sued the
Nagano prefectual government for 150
million yen for failing to raise the
volcanic alert level which would have
restricted access to the area
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Carney is a college town in Buffalo
County Nebraska they're famous for the
archway Museum that stretches over I-80
where you can hear Mark Twain's account
of a cross-country Stagecoach trip
Kearney made headlines on August 8th of
2014 when at least 3.89 inches of rain
fell overnight causing flash floods to
overwhelm the city's storm Drainage
Systems according to hospital
Representatives the water broke through
the ground to floor dining room windows
at Good Samaritan Hospital and CCTV
footage captured the ensuing flood a few
people watch helplessly as the cafeteria
fills with water then we see the moment
the windows break and a massive surge of
water destroys the dining room it almost
looks like a scene from Titanic the
onlookers flee upstairs not wanting to
get caught in the whirlpool according to
ABC Nebraska the hospital was back up
and running the next day as the flood
only caused damage to the dining room
kitchen and lower levels to see in a
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