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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 4 242,000–779,000 1976 Tangshan earthquake China July 28, 1976 5 500,000–1,000,000[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 9 250,000–300,000[7] 526 Antioch earthquake Byzantine Empire (now Turkey) May 526 10 260,000[8] 115 Antioch earthquake Roman Empire (now Turkey) 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. 273,400 1920 Haiyuan earthquake China December 1920 5. 230,000 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami Indian Ocean 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 12th 2010 8. 145,000 1935 Yangtze river flood China 1935 9. 142,000 1923 Great Kanto earthquake Japan September 1923 10. 138,866 1991 Bangladesh cyclone Bangladesh April 29, 1991 Does not include industrial or technological accidents or epidemics nor the 1938 Yellow River flood. |
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