Photos shook the world in 2011 (10 photos)

Rails, crumpled as a result of displacement of the Earth's crust, were photographed in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, the day after the earthquake of magnitude 6, 3 points on 23 February 2011.





Forest destroyed by fire around the water tower in Bastrop, Texas. The fire destroyed more than 600 homes and about 45 square kilometers of forest. September 7, 2011



Freddy Nock from Switzerland balances on the ropeway rope that leads to Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze (2962 m), near the resort "Garmisch-Partenkirchen" in southern Bavaria, August 20, 2011. Nock walked down the 995-meter rope to break the world record previously set by the same.



A man from the tribe of ranching Mundari washes cow urine in a village near Terekeka, Central Equatoria, Sudan, Jan. 19, 2011. During a January referendum residents of South Sudan voted for independence from the North.

Dried oak was photographed in the light of the full moon on the southern tip of the Salton Sea near Kneeland, California, January 20, 2011.



Metal melted during a forest fire near the destroyed house near Gaines Bend near Stron, Texas, April 26, 2011. Wildfire destroyed in the area more than 167 homes.



Icebergs strewn ashes of the volcano Grimsvotn, icebergs in the lagoon at the base of the glacier Vatnajökull, Iceland.



Imprint in the form of an owl in the window of the house, July 12, 2011. The hosts came back from vacation and saw the mark on the window of his home in Kendal in the north-west of England.



Corey Mcintosh cornfield cleans his uncle in the lower reaches of the Missouri River to the west of Loveland, Iowa, October 25, 2011.



September 10, 2011. The plane flies through the «Tribute in Lights» symbolizing the WTC towers in Lower Manhattan in New York City. New York celebrated the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center this year.



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