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Ten deadliest Natural Disasters

Rank   Event   Location   Date   Death Toll (Estimate)  

1.

1931 Yellow River flood

China

summer 1931

1,000,000 to 3,700,000 ***

2.

1887 Yellow River flood

China

1887, September-October

900,000-2,000,000

3.

1970 Bhola cyclone

Bangladesh

1970 November 13

200,000-500,000

4.

1556 Shaanxi earthquake

Shaanxi Province China

1556 January 23

830,000

5.

1839 India Cyclone

India

1839 November 25

300,000+

6.

1642 Kaifeng Flood

China

1642

300,000

7.

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami

Indian Ocean

2004 December 26

283,100**

8.

1976 Tangshan earthquake

China

1976 July 28

242,000*

9.

1975 Banqiao Dam failure

China

1975, August

231,000

10.

1138 Aleppo earthquake

Syria

1138

230,000

* Official Government figure. Estimated death toll as high as 655,000. ** Official figure. Estimated death toll as high as 350,000. *** Estimate by Nova's sources are close to 4 million and yet Encarta's sources report as few as 1 million. Expert estimates report wide variance. Source: Wikipedia


 
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