News audiences showed no hint of compassion fatigue this week, with Queensland's second weather catastrophe by far the most clicked-on story.
As residents on the north coast of the state evacuated or bunkered down, SBS readers clicked on Queensland braces for Cyclone Yasi to see how they were preparing for the category five monster.
In second spot, our list of useful, real-time resources allowing web users to follow Yasi online proved immensely popular.
Yasi did not blow memories of Queensland's awfully-recent flood catastrophe from anyone's minds, though, with our interactive floods map coming in third. Readers were presumably seeking to visualise which communities would be left dealing with their second disaster in under a month.
No sooner had Yasi brushed the coast, than news consumers were looking for updates on the town of Innisfail, where it caused early damage.
A stunning NASA image of the cloud swirl clicked its way to fifth place, as stunning NASA images often do.
This week also saw extraordinary and historic anti-government upheavals across Muslim Africa, beginning with Tunisia and exploding most notably and viciously in Egypt.
As the number of countries experiencing unrest grew, readers flocked to our map of unrest in the Arab world watching as new nations were added each day.
It's no small wonder that our reporter, Benjamin McQueen's Q&A session with an expert who explained what's behind the unrest came in at seventh.
The diversion from Queensland's disasters extended into eightth place, as China's state TV network used a clip from 'Top Gun' and passed it off as the country's airforce.
But Queensland's deep misfortune remained ever-present in readers' minds and mouse-fingers, with the first reports of Yasi unleashing its fury on Queensland's coast taking ninth place.
In tenth place, attracting only marginally fewer clicks than that, was the eerie notice that Yasi had gained power - a lot of power - and jumped up two categories on its way to embattled Queensland.
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