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Top Ten Infamous Natural Disasters in the Last 100 Years

TOP TEN INFAMOUS NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE LAST 100 YEARS

TOP TEN INFAMOUS NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE LAST 100 YEARS

	TYPE	PLACE	DATE	HOW BIG	CONSEQUENCES	MORE INFORMATION
10	Hurricane Andrew	Bahamas, Florida, Louisiana	Late August 1992	Category 4	Not very deadly but very expensive for the time. Over $40 billion.	Most expensive tropical cyclone to hit the US to that point (until 2005)
9	Hurricane Katrina	New Orleans (USA)	29th August  2005		$108 billion on property damage	Devastating. Bad government handling. Most expensive hurricane ever in the US.
8	Sichuan earthquake	China	2008	Magnitude 8.	Homelessness. Loss of lives. $146 billion financial help to rebuild.	Strong aftershocks.
7	Cyclone Nargis	Burma	2nd May 2008		$10 billion worth damage	Casualties were underestimated to reduce negative political consequences
6	Earthquake and tsunami	Japan	11th March 2011	9 Richter scale	Epicenter near the coast: tsunami. Meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. $235 billion damage.	Japan’s strongest earthquake.
5	Tangshan earthquake	Densely populated city in China	28th July 1976	Huge earthquake followed by a magnitude 7 aftershock.	Death toll ranges from 242,000 to 655,000.	The Chinese government rejected help and was criticized for ignoring early warnings by seismologists.
4	Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami	14 countries, especially Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand	26th December 2004	Magnitude 9.3 100 feet high monster waves.	Great devastation that lasted years.
3	Bhola cyclone	Pakistan	12th November 1970	115 mph winds	Most people died due to flooding because of the violent storm that followed. Entire islands and villages destroyed.	Deadliest cyclone in recorded history. The government was accused of mishandling the aftermath.
2	Haiti earthquake	Haiti	12th January 2010	7 Richter scale	Hundreds of thousands of people died because of the country’s poor infrastructure. 1 million homeless people .	Immense support from across the globe.
1	Central China floods	Central China	1931	Deadliest natural disaster in modern history	Millions of people died due to drowning, famine and disease. 51 million people were affected.	The Yellow River is considered the deadliest river in the world: over 1000 times flooded in the last two millennia.