Deadliest Natural Disasters

List the worst disasters in history based on human casualties. Just name the type of event.

Source: Natural Disasters That Changed the World

Typing one kind of disaster may reveal many others

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Number of deaths	Answer	Place	Year
90% of Human Race	Toba Eruption	Sumatra	73,000 BC
100,000,000	Black Death	Eurasia	AD 1333+
20-100,000,000	Spanish Influenza	Global	1918-19
25,000,000	Three Difficult Years famine	China	1958-61
25,000,000	AIDS pandemic	Global	1981-
20,000,000	Famine	China	1907
10,000,000	Bubonic Plague epidemic	China	1892-96
1-4,000,000	Yellow River Flood	China	1931
5,000,000	Antonine Plague	Roman Empire	165-180
5,000,000	Famine	China	1936
4,000,000	Asian Flu pandemic	Global	1957
3,000,000	Famine	India	1900
3,000,000	Famine	China	1928-30
2,000,000	Flood	China	1959
1,500,000	Irish Potato Famine	Ireland	1846-49
1,200,00	Famine	North Korea	1995-98
1,000,000	East Mediterranean Earthquake	Eastern Mediterranean	1201
830,000	Shensi Earthquake	China	1968
500,000	Bhola cyclone	India	1970
287,000	Boxing Day Tsunami	Indian Ocean	2004
242,000	Tangshan Earthquake	China	1976
230,000	Aleppo earthquake	Syria	1138
229,000	Super-Typhoon Nina	China	1975
200,000	Xining earthquake	China	1927
145,000	Yangtze river flood	China	1935
140,000	Great Kanto earthquake	Japan	1923
130,000	Smallpox epidemic	North America	1775-82
100,000	Lisbon earthquake	Portugal	1755
92,000	Tambora eruption	Indonesia	1815
87,000+	Kashmir earthquake	Pakistan	2005
80,000	Shemakha earthquake	Caucasus	1667
70,000	Great Plague	London	1665
66,000	Ancash earthquake	Peru	1970
60,000	Calcutta cyclone	Ganges Delta	1864
50,000	Typhoon	China	1912
50,000	Earthquake	Italy	1783
40,000	Bam earthquake	Iran	2003
36,000	Krakatoa eruption	Indonesia	1883
35,000	Heat wave	Europe	2003
30,000	Storm surge	Netherlands	1362
29,000	Mt Pelée eruption	Martinique	1902
22,070	Tsunami	Chile	1896
22,000	Great Hurricane	Caribbean	1780

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Level 17

Apr 26, 2014

was wondering why Krakatoa eruption doesn't work for "eruption" when all the others do. Overall a very good quiz though.

Level 43

Apr 26, 2014

Should be fixed now.

Thanks

Level 32

May 5, 2015

I put plague and it didn't accept it, i also put bird flu

Level 36

Feb 11, 2020

Do check out the history of massive famines in Russia, that killed millions each time.

Also the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China killed 90,000, and cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar (Burma) in the same year killed at least 138,000 when they stopped counting (it's estimated it may well have topped 200,000). The Bangladesh Cyclone of 1991 killed 138,000 also.

Level 36

Feb 11, 2020

Also this, pre-1975 Indian Cyclones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-1975_North_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_seasons#November_1839_Coringa_cyclone

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