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A death toll is the number of fatalities as a result of any cause of death, such as violence (war, mass murder, genocide, terrorist attack), an accident, a natural disaster, extreme weather, infectious disease, etc. Below is a list of various natural disasters by death toll. Most numbers are estimates and are often in dispute. The incidents are ranked from the highest to the lowest estimate given. This list is, by necessity, somewhat biased toward the modern period, due to better reporting of events. Some events overlap categories. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  listverse.com 187px x 250px | 30.60kB [source page] on a seismograph It was large enough that it caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as half an inch or over a centimetre 8 Banqiao Dam Failure 1975 China Deaths 231 000 The dam After it failed Banqiao Dam was designed to survive a 1 in 1 000 year flood 306 mm 12 inches rainfall per day In August of 1975 however a 1 in 2 000 year flood occurred  listverse.com 147px x 250px | 24.60kB [source page] The resulting pandemic and lack of basic essentials claimed as many lives as those lost directly by the flood itself 1 Yellow River Flood 1931 China Deaths 1 000 000 4 000 000 Refugees caused by another Yellow River flood The 1931 Yellow River flood Huang He flood is generally thought to be the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded and almost certainly of the  listverse.com 195px x 260px | 40.80kB [source page] 000 km 4 600 square miles Evacuation orders had not been fully delivered because of weather conditions and poor communications 7 Tangshan Earthquake 1976 China Deaths 242 000 Aftermath of the quake The Tangshan earthquake is one of the largest earthquakes to hit the modern world in terms of the loss of life The epicentre of the earthquake was near Tangshan in From Yahoo Image Search: "List of deadliest natural disasters" |
