Statistics for Deadliest Natural Disasters

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Number of deaths	Answer	Place	Year	% Correct
287,000	Boxing Day Tsunami	Indian Ocean	2004	86%
230,000	Aleppo earthquake	Syria	1138	85%
66,000	Ancash earthquake	Peru	1970	85%
40,000	Bam earthquake	Iran	2003	85%
50,000	Earthquake	Italy	1783	85%
1,000,000	East Mediterranean Earthquake	Eastern Mediterranean	1201	85%
140,000	Great Kanto earthquake	Japan	1923	85%
87,000+	Kashmir earthquake	Pakistan	2005	85%
100,000	Lisbon earthquake	Portugal	1755	85%
80,000	Shemakha earthquake	Caucasus	1667	85%
830,000	Shensi Earthquake	China	1968	85%
242,000	Tangshan Earthquake	China	1976	85%
22,070	Tsunami	Chile	1896	85%
200,000	Xining earthquake	China	1927	85%
1-4,000,000	Yellow River Flood	China	1931	71%
2,000,000	Flood	China	1959	70%
145,000	Yangtze river flood	China	1935	70%
22,000	Great Hurricane	Caribbean	1780	69%
100,000,000	Black Death	Eurasia	AD 1333+	64%
92,000	Tambora eruption	Indonesia	1815	62%
36,000	Krakatoa eruption	Indonesia	1883	61%
29,000	Mt Pelée eruption	Martinique	1902	61%
90% of Human Race	Toba Eruption	Sumatra	73,000 BC	60%
10,000,000	Bubonic Plague epidemic	China	1892-96	56%
3,000,000	Famine	India	1900	54%
5,000,000	Famine	China	1936	54%
25,000,000	Three Difficult Years famine	China	1958-61	54%
1,500,000	Irish Potato Famine	Ireland	1846-49	52%
3,000,000	Famine	China	1928-30	51%
1,200,00	Famine	North Korea	1995-98	51%
20,000,000	Famine	China	1907	51%
5,000,000	Antonine Plague	Roman Empire	165-180	50%
70,000	Great Plague	London	1665	50%
20-100,000,000	Spanish Influenza	Global	1918-19	49%
25,000,000	AIDS pandemic	Global	1981-	40%
4,000,000	Asian Flu pandemic	Global	1957	37%
229,000	Super-Typhoon Nina	China	1975	37%
50,000	Typhoon	China	1912	37%
500,000	Bhola cyclone	India	1970	31%
60,000	Calcutta cyclone	Ganges Delta	1864	31%
130,000	Smallpox epidemic	North America	1775-82	26%
35,000	Heat wave	Europe	2003	23%
30,000	Storm surge	Netherlands	1362	22%