10 worst recorded Natural Disasters

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