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• March 7, 2007
  • Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes upon landing in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing at least 21 people, just one day after two earthquakes hit the neighboring island of Sumatra.
• March 1, 2007
  • At least 10,300 gallons of a toxic chemical, Cumene, also called isopropyl benzene, which is generally used in paint thinner, fuels, and rubber, spilled from a barge after it hit a wall of an underwater movable dam in the Ohio River between Illinois and Kentucky. (CNN)
• February 24, 2007
  • A fast, but potent, snowstorm passing through the U.S. state of Colorado dropped more than a foot of snow and caused a 35-car pile-up on one of the U.S.'s major highways, Interstate 70. (MSNBC)
• February 23, 2007
  • A 9 Carriage Class 390 Pendolino train, with as many as 180 people onboard, operated by Virgin Trains has derailed and crashed in Cumbria, England. (BBC News)
• February 14, 2007
  • A car bomb detonates outside of Zahedan, the capital of Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan Province, killing 11 Revolutionary Guard members and injuring 34 others. (Yahoo News)
• February 3, 2007
  • At least 132 people are killed and 339 injured in a truck bombing at a marketplace in Baghdad, Iraq. (ABC News)
• February 2, 2007
  • At least 19 people are killed in central Florida after tornadoes ripped through the cities in the middle of the night. (Associated Press)
• January 26, 2007
  • A series of earthquakes hit Taiwan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Indonesia. (WikiNews)

[edit] Ongoing natural disasters

• Cold snap in western U.S.
• European windstorm
• Midwest ice storm
• North Indian cyclone season
• Pacific typhoon season
• Southern Hemisphere cyclone season

[edit] Ongoing armed conflicts