Why does it have to be the US, plenty of disasters have happened and will happen well away from the US.

Tokyo is well overdue it Big Quake by about 10 years. We still get killer floods in Bangladesh, typhoons regularly hit China and cause high loss of life but dont really get a mention.

The 3 Gorges Dam is an ecological disaster and could well be human one if the damn breaches. Chinese dams have had a habit of doing that in the past.

The tsunami came literally out of the blue, Katrina was being tracked. I guess it depends on whether CNN are in the area.