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Ten deadliest Natural Disasters
| Rank | Event | Location | Date | Death Toll (Estimate) |
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1. |
China |
summer 1931 |
1,000,000 to 3,700,000 *** |
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2. |
China |
1887, September-October |
900,000-2,000,000 |
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3. |
200,000-500,000 |
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4. |
Shaanxi Province China |
830,000 |
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5. |
300,000+ |
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6. |
China |
300,000 |
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7. |
283,100** |
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8. |
China |
242,000* |
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9. |
China |
231,000 |
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10. |
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