While much attention was focused on tourists caught in the Pacific resort of Acapulco, even grimmer reports emerged from that hard-hit region, where villages were largely cut off from aid and may have suffered large-scale devastation.
The destruction of Afghanistan's giant Buddha statues by the Taliban in 2001 underlined the effort needed for large-scale devastation.
But ten years after Katrina left 80% of the city underwater and wreaked large-scale devastation, there is another story to be told about the city: an estimated 100,000 of the city's poorest African-American residents, notoriously vilified in 2005, have been unable to return.
US and British vessels were heading to the Philippines as the UN appealed for aid amid the large-scale devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan.
In 2010 it was estimated that over 40% of the global population lives in coastal areas, and much of the large-scale devastation in these areas is due to hurricanes and typhoons.
Despite the large-scale devastation, 90percentt of the city's businesses have rebuilt since the tornado, according to Joplin's Chamber of Commerce.
Hurricane Jeanne caused large-scale devastation in Gonaïves, Haiti, on September 18 , 2004
Despite the large swath of devastation, only three people were killed due to the extensive precautionary measures taken before the storm.
Midwest states were bracing Friday for another round of strong thunderstorms and damaging tornadoes, continuing a week of severe weather that has left a large swath of devastation in its wake.
Despite large-scale flood devastation and high risk, the objectives had been achieved.
