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History has recorded several natural disasters across the globe. Let’s look at some of the historical natural disasters. At present, the South Asia tsunamis, which occurred in 2004, are considered to be one of the deadliest disasters recorded in the history of all natural calamities. It had the highest number of casualties ever recorded for tsunami events exceeding a tsunami in 1896 that took lives of around 27,000 people in Japan. |
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An earthquake in 2004 led to tsunamis that struck Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand and other South Asian countries. More than 120,000 people were killed in this disaster.
Another earthquake of 6.3 magnitude distressed the Iranian city of Bam, taking lives of around 50,000 people.
Venezuela was struck by the rain-caused landslides in the year 1999. The fatality count is still indistinguishable.
Hurricane Mitch distressed Honduras and Nicaragua in Central America. It is estimated that more than 10,000 people lost their lives and around 2 million became homeless as mudslides wiped the entire village.
On the other hand, floods created by cyclone took lives of more than 130,000 people in Bangladesh, April 1991.
1990 - Iran - An earthquake generated a landslide, leading 40,000 to 50,000 casualties in western Iran on June 20, 1990.
1988 - Armenia - An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 on the Richter scale destroyed Armenia, taking lives of over 100,000 people, in 1988.
1976 - China - On July 27, 1976, a lethal earthquake of a magnitude 8.0 hit Tianjin, China. It is estimated that around 255,000 people were killed in this disaster.
1970 - Bangladesh - In 1970, Bangladesh lost more than 300,000 inhabitants from cyclone-induced flooding.
1938 and 1939 - China - Floods took lives of 1 million people in two-year tenure in China.
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