Most Popular Natural Disaster's

• Pompei, 79: Volcanic eruption
• Antioch, Syria, 526: Earthquake (250,000 dead)
• Beirut, Lebanon, 551: earthquake and tsunami (tens of thousands dead)
• Aleppo, Syria, 1138 Earthquake killed 230,000
  
• Mediterranean, 1201 The deadliest earthquake in history kills approximately 1.1 million people in Egypt and Syria.
• Holland, 1228: sea flood (100,000 dead)
• Chihli, China, 1290: Earthquake (100,000 dead)
• Shensi, China, 1556: earthquake (800,000 dead)
• Napoli, Italy, 1631: Mt Vesuvius erupts (3,000 dead)
• Turkey, 1668: earthquake (8,000 dead)
• Hokkaido, 1730: Earthquake (140,000 dead)
• Lisbon, 1755: earthquake and tsunami (30,000 dead)
• Calcutta, 1737: Earthquake (300,000 dead)
• India, 1775: Tsunami (60,000 dead)
• Iran, 1780: earthquake (200,000 dead)
• Caribbeans, 1780: Hurricane (22,000 dead)
• Sumbawa, Indonesia, 1815: Mt Tambora erupts (90,000 dead)
• Japan, 1826: Tsunami (27,000 dead)
• Mapoli, Italy, 1857: earthquake (11,000 dead)
• India, 1864: Cyclone (70,000 dead)
• Bangladesh, 1876: Cyclone (200,000 dead)
• China, 1876-78: Drought (9 million dead)
• China, 1881: Typhoon (300,000 dead)
• Indonesia, 1883: Tsunami (36,000 dead)
• Huayan Kou, China, 1887: Yang-tse Kiang flooding (one million dead)
• Mino-owari, Japan, 1891: earthquake (7,000 dead)
• Sanriku, Japan, 1896: Tsunami (27,000 dead)
• India, 1897: earthquake (1,500 dead)
• Galveston, 1900: Hurricane (8,000 dead)
• Martinique, 1902: Volcano (38,000 dead)
• San Francisco, 1906: earthquake and fire (3,000 dead)
• Colombia, 1906: earthquake (1,000 dead)
• Chile, 1906: earthquake (20,000 dead)
• Messina, Italy, 1908: 7.5 earthquake (70,000 dead)
• Mexico City, 1911: earthquake
• Gansu, China, 1920: 8.6 earthquake (200,000 dead)
• Ukraine, 1921: Famine (5 million dead)
• Yokohama, Japan, 1923: 8.3 earthquake (143,000 dead)
• Nanshan, China, 1927: 8.3 earthquake (200,000 dead)
• China, 1928: Famine (3 million dead)
• Florida, USA, 1928: Hurricane (1800 dead)
• China, 1931: Flooding (3.7 million dead)
• Gansu, China, 1932: 7.6 earthquake (70,000 dead)
• Sanriku, Japan, 1933: 8.4 earthquake (3,000 dead)
• Bihar, India, 1934: 8.1 earthquake (10,700 dead)
• Quetta, Pakistan, 1935: 7.5 earthquake (60,000 dead)
• New York, USA, 1938: Rains (600 dead)
• Erzincan, Turkey, 1939: 7.8 earthquake (33,000 dead)
• Tonankai, Japan, 1944: 8.1 earthquake (1,200 dead)
• Nankaido, Japan, 1946: earthquake (1,330 dead)
• Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 1948: earthquake (100,000 dead)
• Assam, India, 1950: earthquake (1,526 dead)
• Holland, 1953: Sea flood (1,794 dead)
• Iran, 1953: Rain flood (10,000 dead)
• Louisiana, USA, 1957: Hurricane (400 dead)
• Japan, 1958: Typhoon (5,000 dead)
• Morocco, 1960: earthquake (10,000 dead)
• Chile, 1960: 9.5 earthquake (5,700 dead)
• Mt Huascaran, Peru, 1962: Volcano eruption (3,000)
• North Peru, 1970: 7.8 earthquake (66,000 dead)
• Bangladesh, 1970: Sea flood (200-500,000 dead)
• Vietnam, 1971: Red River flood (100,000 dead)
• Nicaragua, 1972: earthquake flood (10,000 dead)
• Bangladesh, 1974: floods (28,000 dead)
• Haicheng, China, 1975: 7.0 earthquake (10,000 dead)
• Tangshan, China, 1976: 8.0 earthquake (750,000 dead)
• Guatemala, 1976: earthquake (23,000 dead)
• Andhra Pradesh, India, 1977: cyclone (10,000 dead)
• Caribbeans, 1979: Hurricane (2,000 dead)
• Mexico, 1982: volcanic eruption (1,800 dead)
• Yemen, 1982: earthquake (3,000 dead)
• Bhopal, India, 1984: Chemical pollution (3,800 dead)
• Ciudad de Mexico, 1985: 8.1 earthquake (9,500 dead)
• Colombia, 1985: Volcano (25,000 dead)
• Armenia, 1988: earthquake (55,000 dead)
• Colombia, 1985: eruption of Nevado del Ruiz (23,000 dead)
• Bangladesh, 1988: Monsoon flood (1,300 dead)
• Gilan and Zanjan, Iran, 1990: 7.7 earthquake (35,000 dead)
• Bangladesh, 1991: tsunami (138,000 dead)
• Florida, 1992: Hurricane Andrew (39 dead, millions in damage)
  
• Latur, India, 1993: earthquake (22,000 dead)
• Kobe, Japan, 1995: earthquake (5,500 dead)
• Chicago, USA, 1995: heatwave (739 dead)
• North Korea, 1995-98: Famine and floods (3.5 million dead)
• Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1996: earthquake (??,000 dead)
• Papua New Guinea, 1998: Tsunami (2,200 dead)
• Yangtze Kiang, China, 1998: flooding (3,600 dead)
• Central America, 1998: Hurricane Mitch and floods (12,000 dead)
• Afghanistan, 1998: Earthquakes (10,000 dead)
• Colombia, 1999: earthquake (1,185 dead)
• Izmit, Turkey, 1999: earthquake (17,000 dead)
• Taiwan, 1999: 7.6 earthquake (2,400 dead)
• Orissa, India, 1999: Cyclone (7,600 dead)
• Venezuela, 1999: Floods (20,000 dead)
• Gujarat, India, 2001: earthquake (20,000 dead)
• El Salvador, 2001: earthquake (850 dead)
• Afghanistan, 2002: earthquake (2,500 dead)
• Algeria, 2003: earthquake (2,266 dead)
• Andhra Pradesh, India, 2003: Heat wave (1,300 dead)
• France, Spain and Italy, 2003: Heat wave (50,000 dead)
• Bam, Iran, 2003: earthquake (26,300 dead)
• Al-Hoceima, Morocco, 2004: earthquake (571 dead)
• Haiti and Dominican Republic, 2004: rains (2,400 dead)
• Philippines, 2004: typhoon (1,000 dead)
• China, 2004: floods (1,300 dead)
• Southeast Asia, 2004: tsunamis caused by 9.0 earthquake (111,000 dead in Indonesia, 31,000 in Sri Lanka, 10,700 in India, 5,400 in Thailand, 68 in Malaysia, 82 in the Maldives, 300 in Myanmar and 150 in Somalia, including 1,500 Scandinavian tourists, and dozens of Germans, Italians, Dutch, etc)
• Zarand, Iran, 2005: earthquake (500 dead)
• Nias, Indonesia, 2005: 8.7 earthquake (1000 dead)
• Mumbai, India, 2005: monsoon (1,000 dead)
• China, 2005: floods (567 dead)
• Louisiana and Mississippi, USA, 2005: hurricane Katrina (1,069 dead)
• Kashmir, 2005: earthquake (80,500 dead, of which 79,000 in Pakistan and 1,350 in India)
• Central America, 2005: floods (1,400 dead, of which 1,200 in Guatemala)
• Philippines, 2006: mudslides (1,800)
• Java, 2006: earthquake (4,300)
• Java, 2006: tsunami (520)
• India and Pakistan, aug 2006: floods (300)
• Southern Ethiopia, aug 2006: floods (800)
• Fujian, China, aug 2006: typhoon (260)
• Indian subcontinent, june 2007: storms (228 in Pakistan, 500 in India, 600 in Bangladesh, unknown in Afghanistan)
• Hungary, july 2007: heatwave (500)
• North Korea, august 2007: floods (1,000?)
• Peru, august 2007: earthquake (540)
• Bangladesh, november 2007: cyclone (4,000)
• Afghanistan, february 2008: cold wave (926)
• Myanmar/Burma, may 2008: cyclone (135,000)
• China, may 2008: earthquake (70,000)
• Haiti, august 2008: hurricane (500)
• India and Bangladesh, september 2008: floods (635)
• Abruzzo, Italy, april 2009: earthquake (300)