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10 worst recorded Natural Disasters
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Casper
⟶ Updated 18 Oct 2017 ⟶
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526 Antioch earthquake Location: Byzantine Empire (now Turkey) Death Toll: 250,000-300,000
1138 Aleppo earthquake Location: Zengid dynasty (now Syria) Death Toll: 230,000
1556 Shaanxi earthquake Location: China Death Toll: 830,000
1737 Calcutta cyclone Location: India Death Toll: 300,000
1839 India cyclone Location: India Death Toll: 300,000
1887 Yellow River flood Location: China Death Toll: 900.000-2,000,000
1920 Haiyuan earthquake Location: China Death Toll: 273,400
1931 China floods Location: China Death Toll: 1,000,000-4,000,000
1970 Bhola cyclone Location: East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Death Toll: 250,000-500,000
1976 Tangshan earthquake Location: China Death Toll: 242,000–655,000
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami Location: Indian ocean Death Toll: 280,000