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List of Natural Disasters By Death toll

List of natural disasters by death toll

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A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, lots of collateral damage or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes 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 1,000,000–4,000,000*[1] 1931 China floods China July, August, 1931
2 900,000–2,000,000[2] 1887 Yellow River flood China September, October, 1887
3 830,000[3] 1556 Shaanxi earthquake China January 23, 1556
4 650,000–779,000 1976 Tangshan earthquake China July 1976
5 500,000[1] 1970 Bhola cyclone East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) November 13, 1970
6 300,000[4] 1839 India Cyclone India November 25, 1839
6 300,000[5] 1737 Calcutta cyclone India October 7, 1737
8 273,400[6] 1920 Haiyuan earthquake China December 16, 1920
8 250,000–300,000[7] 526 Antioch earthquake Byzantine Empire May 526
8 260,000[8] 115 Antioch earthquake Byzantine Empire December 13, 115
* 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.
The list does not include the man-made 1938 Yellow River flood caused entirely by a deliberate man-made act (an act of war, destroying dikes).

An alternative listing is given by Hough in his 2008 book Global Security.[9]

Ten deadliest natural disasters since 1900

Rank Death toll (estimate) Event* Location Date
1. 1,000,000–4,000,000 1931 China floods China July 1931
2. 650,000–779,000 1976 Tangshan earthquake China July 1976
3. 500,000 1970 Bhola cyclone East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) November 1970
4. 234,117 1920 Haiyuan earthquake China December 1920
5. 230,000 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Indonesia 26th December 2004
6. 229,000 Typhoon Nina—contributed to Banqiao Dam failure China August 7, 1975
7. 159,000 2010 Haiti earthquake Haiti January 12, 2010
8. 145,000 1935 Yangtze river flood China 1935
9. 142,000 1923 Great Kanto earthquake Japan September 1923
10. 139,000 1991 Bangladesh cyclone Bangladesh April 29, 1991
Does not include industrial or technological accidents or epidemics nor the 1938 Yellow River flood.

Lists of natural disasters by cause

Ten Deadliest avalanches

Main articles: Avalanches and List of avalanches
Rank Death toll (estimate) Event Location Date
1. 20,000 1970 Huascarán avalanche; triggered by the 1970 Ancash earthquake[10] Peru 1970
2. 4,000 1962 Huascarán avalanche[10] 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 Üzengili avalanche Turkey 1993

Ten deadliest blizzards

Main article: Blizzard
Rank Death toll (estimate) Event Location Date
1. 4,000 1972 Iran blizzard Iran 1972
2. 3,000 Carolean Death March Sweden 1719
3. 926 2008 Afghanistan blizzard Afghanistan 2008
4. 400 Great Blizzard of 1888 United States 1888
5. 318 1993 North American Storm Complex United States 1993
6. 235 Schoolhouse Blizzard United States 1888
7. 199 Hakko-da Mountains incident Japan 1902
8. 154 North American blizzard of 1996 United States 1996
9. 144 Armistice Day Blizzard United States 1940
10. 133 2008 Chinese winter storms China 2008

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