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Worst Natural Disasters In History


Here is a list of the worst natural disasters in recorded history.

Currently, the 2004 South Asia tsunamis would have the highest fatality count for a tsunami event, surpassing a tsunami in 1896 that killed 27,000 people in Japan.

2004 - South Asia

An earthquake causes tsunamis that hit Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand and other South Asian nations. The death toll is more than 120,000.

2003 - Iran

A 6.3 quake devastated the Iranian city of Bam, killing more than 50,000 people.

1999 - Venezuela

The death toll is still unclear from the rain-caused landslides that hit Venezuela in mid-December 1999; official estimates are as high as 30,000 deaths.

1998 - Central America

Hurricane Mitch devastates much of Honduras and Nicaragua in Central America. More than 10,000 people were killed and some 2 million left homeless as mudslides swept away whole villages.

1991 - Bangladesh

Bangladesh lost more than 130,000 people in April 1991 from cyclone-induced flooding.

1990 - Iran

An earthquake triggers a landslide, causing from 40,000 to 50,000 deaths in western Iran on June 20, 1990.

1988 - Armenia

In 1988, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastates Armenia, killing over 100,000 people perished.

1985 - Colombia

And a small eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia on November 13, 1985 leads to a massive mudflow that covers the city of Armero and kills more than 23,000 people.

1983 - Thailand

Monsoons kill 10,000 people in Thailand over the course of three months in 1983. Some 100,000 people contracted waterborne diseases as a result of the storm.

1976 - China

A deadly earthquake of a magnitude 8.0 strikes Tianjin, China, on July 27, 1976. The official casualty figure issued by the Chinese government was 255,000 people.

1970 - Bangladesh

Bangladesh loses more than 300,000 people in November 1970 from cyclone-induced flooding.

1970 - Peru

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake at Mount Huascaran, Peru, on May 21, 1970, causes a rock and snow avalanche that buries 2 towns, killing as many as 20,000 people.

1959 - China

In July 1959, massive floods in China kill at least 2 million people.

1938 and 1939 - China

Floods kill 1 million people in a two-year period in China.

1931 - China

The massive flooding of the Yangtze River in China in 1931 caused more than 3 million deaths from flooding and starvation.

1902 - Martinique

The eruption of Mont Pelée in Martinique, Lesser Antilles, in 1902, kills nearly 30,000 people.

1896 - Japan

About 27,000 people drown following an earthquake-induced tsunami off the coast of Japan.

1887 - China

In 1887, about 900,000 people died when the country's Yellow River burst its banks in the worst-ever recorded flooding.

1883 - Indonesia

On August 26, Krakatoa, a small volcano on an uninhabited island between Sumatra and Java, explodes. The eruption and a tsunami kill 36,000 people in this Indonesian region.

1815 - Indonesia

A volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa island in 1815 kills than 90,000 people.

1780 - Caribbean

"The Great Hurricane" hits the Caribbean in October 1780 and kills 22,000 people on the islands of Martinique, St. Eustatius, and Barbados.

1556 - China

A quake hits the Chinese province of Shansi on February 2, 1556. It kills 830,000 people.

1201 - Mediterranean

The deadliest earthquake in history kills approximately 1.1 million people in Egypt and Syria.

Sources: Discovery Channel, U.S.G.S., BBC


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