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List of natural disasters

A natural disaster is defined as a hazard which occurs naturally, that is a disaster that is not brought about by acts of

human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, etc. In

order to be classified as a disaster it will have profound environmental effect and/or human loss and frequently

incurs financial loss.

Ten deadliest natural disasters

Rank

Death toll (estimate) Event Location Date

1. 10000002,500,000*[1] 1931 Chinafloods

China July, November,1931

2. 9000002,000,000[2] 1887 Yellow

River flood

China September,

October, 1887

3. 830000[3] 1556 Shaanxiearthquake

Shaanxi Province, China January 23,1556

4. 500000[1] 1970 Bholacyclone

East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) November 13,1970

5. 230000[4] 2010 Haitiearthquake

Port-au-Prince, Haiti January 12,2010

6. 300000[5] 1839 IndiaCyclone

India November 25,1839

7. 250000300,000 526 Antioch

earthquake

Antioch, Turkey May 526

8. 242419 (the death toll has beenestimated to be as high as 665,000)[1]

1976 Tangshanearthquake

Tangshan, Hebei, China July 28, 1976

9. 234117[1] 1920 Haiyuanearthquake

Haiyuan, Ningxia-Gansu, China December 16,1920

10. 300000 2004 IndianOcean Tsunami

Sumatra, Indonesia and alsoaffected India, Sri Lanka,Maldives

December 26,2004

* 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.An alternative listing is given by Hough in his 2008 book Global Security.[6]

Ten deadliest natural disasters of the past century
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Rank Maximum Death toll Event* Location Date

1. 1450002,500,000 1931 China floods China November 1931

2. 242419-779,000 1976 Tangshan earthquake China July 1976

3. 300000-500,000 1970 Bhola cyclone East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) November 1970

4. 92000-316,000 2010 Haiti earthquake Haiti January 2010

5. 234000 1920 Haiyuan earthquake China December 1920

6. 230210+ 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Indonesia December 2004

7. 142000 1923 Great Kanto earthquake Japan September 1923

8. 138000+ 2008 Cyclone Nargis Myanmar May 2008

9. 138000 1991 Bangladesh cyclone Bangladesh April 1991

10. 120000 1948 Ashgabat earthquake Turkmenistan October 1948

* Does not include industrial or technological accidents.

Lists of natural disasters

Avalanches

Rank Death toll

(estimate)

Event Location Date

1. 50000 1970 Huascarn avalanche; triggered by the 1970 Ancashearthquake[7]

Peru 1970

2. 4000

1962 Huascarn avalanche

[7] Peru 1962

3. 265 Winter of Terror Austria-Switzerland 1951

4. 172 2010 Salang avalanches Afghanistan 2010

5. 125 Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide Russia 2002

6. 102 2010 Kohistan avalanche Pakistan 2010

7. 96 Wellington, Washington avalanche United States 1910

8. 90 Frank Slide Canada 1903

9. 62 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche Canada 1910

10. 59 1993 Bayburt zengili avalanche Turkey 1993

11. 57 1954 Blons avalanches Austria 1954

Blizzards
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Rank Death toll (estimate) Event Location Date

1. 4000 1972 Iran blizzard Iran 1972

2. 926 2008 Afghanistan blizzard Afghanistan 2008

3. 400 Great Blizzard of 1888 United States 1888

4. 318 1993 North American Storm Complex United States 1993

5. 235 Schoolhouse Blizzard United States 1888

6. 199 Hakko-da Mountains incident Japan 1902

7. 144 Armistice Day Blizzard United States 1940

8. 133 2008 Chinese winter storms China 2008

9. 112 1995 Kazakh Blizzard Kazakhstan 1995

10. 100 Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 United States 1978

Contractible diseasesPandemics killing at least 1000000 people:

Rank Death toll (estimate) Event Location Date

1. 100000000 approx. Black Death Asia, Europe, Africa 1300s1720s

2. 50000000100,000,000 Spanish Flu Worldwide 19181920

3. 40000000100,000,000 Plague of Justinian Asia, Europe, Africa 540590

4. 12000000 ? Third Pandemic of Bubonic Plague Worldwide 1850s1950s

5. 5000000 Antonine Plague Roman Empire 165180

6. 4000000 Asian Flu Worldwide 1956

1958

Other deadly communicable diseases. Death counts are historical totals unless indicated otherwise.

Rank Death toll (estimate) Disease Notes

1. 300000000 approx. Smallpox 1900 to eradication.[8]Declared eradicated May 8, 1980.[9]

2. 200000000 ? Measles last 150 years[10]

3. 80000000250000000 Malaria 20th centurypresent

4. 40000000100000000 Tuberculosis 20th centurypresent[10]

5. 25250000 AIDS pandemic 1981

present.

6. at least 250000 annually Seasonal influenza As of April 2009[11]

Cyclones
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Rank Death toll Event Location Date

1. 500,000 1970 Bhola cyclone East Pakistan, Pakistan (nowBangladesh)

November 13,1970

2. 300,000 1839 Indian cyclone India November 25,

1839

3. 300,000[12] 1737 Calcutta cyclone India October 7, 1737

4. 210,000 Super Typhoon Ninacontributed toBanqiao Dam failure

China August 7, 1975

5. 200,000[13] Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 present day Bangladesh October 30,1876

6. ~146,000 Cyclone Nargis Myanmar May 2, 2008

7. 138,866 1991 Bangladesh cyclone Bangladesh April 29, 1991

8. 100,000 1882 Bombay cyclone Bombay, India 1882

9. 60,000 1922 Swatow Typhoon China August 1, 1922

10. 60,000 1864 Calcutta Cyclone India October 5, 1864

Earthquakes


1. 830000 1556 Shaanxi earthquake China January 23,1556

2. 242419

779,000 1976 Tangshan earthquake China July 28, 1976

3. 316000+ 2010 Haiti earthquake Haiti January 12,2010

4. 250000 526 Antioch earthquake Antioch, Byzantine Empire (nowTurkey)

May 526

5. 235502 1920 Haiyuan earthquake China December 16,1920

6. 230210 2004 Indonesian earthquake Indonesia December 26,2004

7. 230000 1138 Aleppo earthquake Syria October 11,

1138

8. 200000 856 Damghan earthquake Iran December 22,856

9. 150000 893 Ardabil earthquake Iran March 23, 893

10. 142000 1923 Great Kanto earthquake Japan September 1,1923

11. 137000 1730 Hokkaido earthquake Japan 1730

12. 123000[1] 1908 Messina earthquake Italy December 28,1908

13. 110000 1948 Ashgabat earthquake Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union (nowTurkmenistan)

October 5, 1948
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14. 100000 1290 Chihli earthquake China September 27,1290

15. 100000 1755 Lisbon earthquake Portugal November 1,1755

16. 100000 1667 Shamakhi earthquake Azerbaijan November 1667

17. 79000 2005 Kashmir earthquake Pakistan (disputed region) October 8, 200518. 77000 1727 Tabriz earthquake Iran November 18,

1727

19. 70000 1970 Ancash earthquake Peru May 31, 1970

20. 70000 1932 Changma earthquake Gansu, China December 25,1932

21. 68712 (18,392missing)

2008 Sichuan earthquake China May 12, 2008

22. 60000 1268 Cilicia earthquake Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia(now Turkey)

1268

23. 60000 1693 Sicily earthquake Italy January 11,1693

24. 60000 1935 Balochistan earthquake British India (now part of Pakistan) May 31, 1935

25. 50000 1783 Calabrian earthquakes Italy 1783

26. 50000 1990 Manjil-Rudbar earthquake Iran June 21, 1990

27. 45000 1999 zmit earthquake Turkey August 17,1999

28. 40000 1498 Mei Nankaid earthquake Japan September 20,1498

29. 40000 1797 Riobamba earthquake Ecuador 1797

30. 40000 1927 Gulang earthquake Gansu, China 1927

31. 32962 1939 Erzincan earthquake Turkey December 26,1939

32. 30000 1202 Syria earthquake Syria May 20, 1202

33. 30000 1939 Chilln earthquake Chile January 24,1939

34. 28000 1949 Khait earthquake Tajikistan July 10, 1949

35. 26271 2003 Bam earthquake Iran December 26,

200336. 25000 1988 Spitak earthquake Armenia December 7,

1988

37. 23700 1293 Kamakura earthquake Japan May 27, 1293

38. 23000 1976 Guatemala earthquake Guatemala February 4,1976

39. 22066 1896 Meiji-Sanriku earthquake Japan June 15, 1896

40. 20000 1812 Caracas earthquake Venezuela March 26, 1812

41. 20000 1905 Kangra earthquake British India April 4, 1905

42. 19727 2001 Gujarat earthquake India January 26,2001
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43. 15621 1970 Tonghai earthquake China January 4, 1970

44. 15000 1960 Agadir earthquake Morocco February 26,1960

45. 15000 1978 Tabas earthquake Iran September 16,1978

46. 12225 1962 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake Iran September 1,1962

47. 1200015000 1907 Qaratog earthquake Tajikistan October 21,1907

48. 12000 1968 Dasht-e Bayaz andFerdows earthquake

Iran August 31,1968

49. 10500 1934 Bihar earthquake British India January 15,1934

50. 10153 1985 Mexico City earthquake Mexico September 19,1985

51. 10000 1509 Istanbul earthquake Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (nowTurkey)

September 10,1509

52. 10000 1703 Apennine earthquakes Italy 1703

53. 10000 1703 Genroku earthquake Japan December 31,1703

54. 10000 1854 Ansei-Nankai earthquake Japan December 24,1854

55. 10000[14] 1944 San Juan earthquake Argentina January 15,1944

Famines

Please Note: Some of these famines may be partially or completely caused by humans.

Rank

Death toll Event Location Date

1. 15,000,00043,000,000 Great Chinese Famine China 19581961

2. 24,000,000 Chinese Famine of 1907 China 1907

3. 19,000,000 Indian Famine British India 18961902

4. 15,000,000 Bengal famine of 1770, incl. Bihar & Orissa India 1769

1771

5. 13,000,000 Northern Chinese Famine China 18761879

6. 10,000,000 Indian Great Famine of 187678 India 18761879

7. 7,500,000 Great European Famine Europe (all) 13151317

8. 7,000,000-10,000,000 Soviet famine of 19321933 (Holodomor) Soviet Union 19321934

8. 5,000,000 Chinese Famine of 1936 China 1936

8. 5,000,000 Russian famine of 1921 Russia, Ukraine 19211922

11. 3,000,000 Chinese Drought 1941 China 1941

11. 3,000,000 Chinese Famine of 1928

1930 China 1928

1930
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13. 2,000,000 Russian famine of 16011603 Russia(Muscovy)

16011603

13. 2,000,000 Vietnamese Famine of 1945 Vietnam 19431945

13. 2,000,000 Deccan Famine of 163032 India 16301630

16. 1,500,0004,000,000 Bengal Famine of 1943 India 1943

17. 1,200,000-3,500,000 North Korean famine North Korea 19961998

18. 1,000,0001,500,000 Great Irish Famine Ireland 18461849

18. 1,000,000 19841985 famine in Ethiopia Ethiopia 1984

18. 1,000,000 Horn of Africa famine Ethiopia, Sudan,Somalia

1888

21. 26,0001,000,000 Bangladesh famine of 1974Official records claim26,000. However, various sources claim about1,000,000.

Bangladesh 1974

22. 150,000+ Finnish famine of 18661868 Finland, northern

Sweden

18661868

Floods and landslides

Rank

Death toll Event Location Date

1. 2,500,0003,700,000[15] 1931 China floods China 1931

2. 900,0002,000,000 1887 Yellow River (Huang He) flood China 1887

3. 500,000

700,000 1938 Yellow River (Huang He) flood China 19384. 231,000 Banqiao Dam failure, result of Typhoon Nina.

Approximately 86,000 people died from floodingand another 145,000 died during subsequentdisease.

China 1975

5. 145,000 1935 Yangtze river flood China 1935

6. more than 100,000 St. Felix's Flood, storm surge Netherlands 1530

7. 100,000 Hanoi and Red River Delta flood North Vietnam 1971

8. 100,000 1911 Yangtze river flood China 1911

9. 50,00080,000 St. Lucia's flood, storm surge Netherlands 1287

10. 2,400 North Sea flood, storm surge Netherlands,England,Belgium

31December1953

Heat waves
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1. 56,000 2010 Russian heat wave Russia 2010

2. 40,000 2003 European heat wave Europe 2003

3. 5,00010,000 1988 United States heat wave United States 1988

4. 1,700 1980 United States heat wave United States 1980

5. 1,500 Southern India heat wave India 2003

6. 946 Los Angeles heat wave United States 1955

7. 891 New York City heat wave United States 1972

8. 739 1995 Chicago heat wave United States 1995[16]

Limnic eruptions


1. 1,746 Lake Nyos Cameroon 1986

2. 37 Lake Monoun Cameroon 1984

Meteorites

Rank Death toll Location Nation Date

1. 10,000 Shansi China February 3, 1490 [17]

2. 10 China China 588 AD

3. 2 Dun-le-Poelier France January 31, 1879

4. 2 Tunguska Russia June 30, 1908

5. 1 Zvezvan Yugoslavia December 8, 1929

6. 1 Chin-kuei Shan China 1874

7. 1 Oriang India January 16, 1825

Storms (non-cyclone)


1. 15,100 Torrential rains and mudslides Venezuela 1999

2. 1,000 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides Brazil 2011

3. 500 Lofoten, Heavy storm Norway 1849

4. 250 Great Lakes Storm of 1913 United States and Canada (Great Lakesregion)

1913

5. 242 1996 Amarnath Yatra tragedy India 1996
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6. 210 Trndelag, storm ("Follastormen") Norway 1625

7. 189 Eyemouth, Scotland, storm ("BlackFriday")

United Kingdom 1881

8. 140 Trndelag, storm ("Titran disaster") Norway 1899

9. 128 2008 Santa Catarina floods and mudslides Brazil 2008

10. 96 Lofoten, storm Norway 1868

Tornadoes

Rank Death

toll

Event Location Date

1. 1,300 The Daulatpur-Salturia Tornado Manikganj, Bangladesh April 26,1989

2. 923 1969 East Pakistan Tornado East Pakistan, Pakistan (now Bangladesh) 1969

3. 695 The Tri-State Tornado United States (MissouriIllinoisIndiana) March 18,1925

4. 681 1973 Dhaka Tornado Bangladesh 1973

5. 600 The Valetta, Malta Tornado Malta 1551

6. 500 The Sicily Tornado Sicily, Two Sicilies (now Italy) 1851

6. 500 The Narail-Magura Tornadoes Jessore, East Pakistan, Pakistan (now

Bangladesh)

1964

6. 500 The Comoro Tornado Comoro 1951

9. 440 The Tangail Tornado Bangladesh 1988

10. 400 The 1984 Ivanovo-Yaroslavl, Russia,Tornado

Soviet Union (now Russia) 1984

Tsunami

Rank

Death

toll

Event Location Date

1. 230,210 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives,Malaysia, Somalia, Bangladesh, Thailand

December26, 2004

2. 123,000[1] 1908 Messina earthquake/tsunami Messina, Italy 1908

3. 100,000 1755 Lisbon earthquake/tsunami/fire Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Ireland, and theUnited Kingdom (Cornwall)

1755

4. 36,000 Caused by 1883 eruption of Krakatoa Indonesia 1883

5. 30,000 1707 Hei earthquake Tkaid/Nankaido, Japan 1707

6. 27,000 1826 Japanese earthquake Japan 1826

7. 25,674 1868 Arica earthquake/tsunami Arica, Chile 1868
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8. 22,070 1896 Meiji-Sanriku earthquake Sanriku, Japan 1896

9. 15,030 1792 Mount Unzen eruption insouthwest Kysh /tsunami

Kysh, Japan 1792

10. 12,000 1771 Great Yaeyama Tsunami Yaeyama, Okinawa, Japan 1771

Volcanic eruptions

Rank Death

toll

Event Location Date

1. 92,000 Mount Tambora (see also Year Without a Summer) Indonesia April 10, 1815

2. 36,000 Krakatoa Indonesia May 2627,1883

3. 33,000 Mount Vesuvius Pompeii andHerculaneum, Italy

August 24, 79AD

4. 29,000 Mount Pele Martinique May 7 or May 8,1902

5. 23,000 Nevado del Ruiz (Armero tragedy) Colombia November 13,1985

6. 15,000 Mount Unzen Japan 1792

7. 10,000 Mount Kelut Indonesia 1586

8. 9,350 Laki. Killed about 25% of the population (33% werekilled about 70 years before by smallpox)

Iceland June 8, 1783

9. 6,000 Santa Maria Guatemala 1902

10. 5,115 Mount Kelut Indonesia May 19, 1919

A supervolcanic eruption at Lake Toba around 74,000 years ago could have wiped out as much as 99% of the global

human population, reducing the population from a possible 60 million to less than 10 thousand; see Toba catastrophe

theory. However, this theory may not be widely accepted because the evidence could possibly be disputed, and there

have been, for instance, no remains found. The eruption is not listed here as it was pre-historic and outside the scope

of this article. Also, the Thera eruption in the Aegean Sea between 1550 and 1650 BC may have caused a large

number of deaths throughout the region, from Crete to Egypt. See also La Garita Caldera, Yellowstone Caldera, and

Supervolcanoes.

Wildfires and bushfires


1. 1,2002,500 Peshtigo Fire, Wisconsin United States October 8, 1871

2. 1,200 Kursha-2 Fire Soviet Union August 3, 1936

3. 453 Cloquet Fire, Minnesota United States October 12, 1918

4. 418 Great Hinckley Fire, Minnesota United States September 1, 1894

5. 282 Thumb Fire, Michigan United States September 5, 1881

6. 273 Matheson Fire, Ontario Canada July 29, 1916

7. 240 Sumatra and Kalimantan Fires Indonesia 1997

8. 230 Landes region France 1949
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9. 213 Black Dragon Fire China May 1987

10. 173 Black Saturday bushfires Australia February 7March 14, 2009

11. 167 Fires of Needle Ridge USA February 12April 4, 1980

12. 71 Black Friday bushfires (1939) Australia January 13, 1939

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