Iceland earthquakes, Burma shootings and the royal family.

Disasters are big for people they affect, but among all the headlines, it’s easy for others to miss. We’ve gathered the mess that caught our attention this week on our new Weekly Tour, This Week in Disaster.

Water disaster: Torrential rains have engulfed parts of Kentucky since Monday, causing historic floods.

Ash disaster: An Indonesian volcano released more than 16,000 feet of ash into the sky on Tuesday, scattering some of it onto surrounding villages.

Earthquake disasters: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck central Greece on Wednesday, collapsing buildings and destroying homes. An 8.1-magnitude earthquake jolted the Pacific Ocean in northeastern New Zealand on Thursday, putting New Zealand and Hawaii on alert for the tsunami.

Unprecedented disaster: Iceland is also struck by earthquakes – 18,000 of them, this week alone. Experts are concerned that this record-breaking series of tremors could trigger volcanoes in the region. (Remember Eyjafjallajökull?)

Fire disaster: A 14-year-old girl in Louisiana was killed in an oil tank explosion on Sunday. Officials say that the girl’s presence near the tanks just before the explosion “has been identified as a contributing factor in the case.”

The Senate approves a $ 1.9 trillion relief bill from COVID without any prosecution Republican support for Derek Chauvin, accused of George Floyd’s death, may be delayed. Here’s why. Editorial poet Amanda Gorman says security guards confronted her for being “suspicious” The Mayor of Detroit was a point when he refused a Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Viral disaster: An explosion destroyed windows off the Dutch COVID Test Center on Wednesday morning. No one was hurt, and the authorities suspect that the explosion was deliberate.

The wartime disaster: Ten missiles struck an Iraqi air base used by US forces on Wednesday. An American civilian contractor died of a heart attack during the attack.

A human rights disaster: Burma witnessed the bloodiest week since the military coup on the first of February, with 38 civilians killed on Wednesday alone. The victims were mainly young demonstrators shot by the military forces.

Averted disasters: A WWII-era bomb, discovered in the United Kingdom, exploded in a controlled detonation on Saturday.

An ancient disaster: archaeologists discovered on February 27 that they had discovered a “Lamborghini carriage” from the ruins of Pompeii.

Ratings disaster: viewership at the Golden Globes dropped to an all-time low.

Royal disaster: The harassment of Oprah’s meeting with Harry and Meghan rocked Buckingham Palace, increasing family tensions throughout the week. (We liked this so much what we wrote about it.)

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