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Originally Posted by dingo22
It might not be the worst, these are what I have found so far:
* 1976 Earthquake in Tangshan, China, kills 242,000
* 1970 Cyclone in Bangladesh kills 500,000
* 1887 China's Yellow River breaks its banks in Huayan Kou killing 900,000
* 1556 Earthquake in China's Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces kills an estimated 830,000
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I was trying to look for those statistics but could not find them. Thanks. One of the great tragedies of our time. Even though this does not qualify a disaster due to natural devastation but I was looking up the Chinese Famine of 1958-1961. Over 5 million died in that.
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