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Norden newspaper of Jan 6, 2005, lists these ten disasters:
1931-China: More than 3 million deaths from flooding of Yangtze River.
1201-Mediterranean: Deadliest earthquake in history kills ca 1.1 million people in Egypt and Syria.
1887-China: Ca 900,000 people died when Yellow River flooded.
1556-China: A quake hit province of Shansi, killing 830,000 people.
1976-China: Deadly quake of 8.0 strikes Tianjin, causing 255,000 deaths.
1991-Bangladesh: More than 130,000 people died from cyclone-induced flooding.
2004-South Asia: Quake-caused tsunamis hit Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand and other South Asian nations; death toll increasing from 150,000. This surpasses the 1896 tsunami that killed 27,000 people in Japan.
1988-Armenia: A quake measuring 6.9 killed over 100,000 people in Armenia.
June
1931-China: More than 3 million deaths from flooding of Yangtze River.
1201-Mediterranean: Deadliest earthquake in history kills ca 1.1 million people in Egypt and Syria.
1887-China: Ca 900,000 people died when Yellow River flooded.
1556-China: A quake hit province of Shansi, killing 830,000 people.
1976-China: Deadly quake of 8.0 strikes Tianjin, causing 255,000 deaths.
1991-Bangladesh: More than 130,000 people died from cyclone-induced flooding.
2004-South Asia: Quake-caused tsunamis hit Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand and other South Asian nations; death toll increasing from 150,000. This surpasses the 1896 tsunami that killed 27,000 people in Japan.
1988-Armenia: A quake measuring 6.9 killed over 100,000 people in Armenia.
June