List of natural disasters by death toll
Ten deadliest natural disasters

List of natural disasters by death toll

Section Title: Ten deadliest natural disasters
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Rank	Death toll (estimate)	Event	Location	Date

1.	1,000,000–4,000,000	1931 China floods	China	July 1931

2.	900,000–2,000,000	1887 Yellow River flood	China	September 1887

3.	830,000	1556 Shaanxi earthquake	China	January 23, 1556

4.	≥500,000	1970 Bhola cyclone	East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)	November 13, 1970

5.	316,000	2010 Haiti earthquake	Haiti	January 12, 2010

6.	300,000	1839 India cyclone	India	November 26, 1839

1737 Calcutta cyclone	India	October 7, 1737

8.	273,400	1920 Haiyuan earthquake	China	December 16, 1920

9.	250,000–300,000	526 Antioch earthquake	Byzantine Empire (now Turkey)	May 526

10.	242,769–655,000	1976 Tangshan earthquake	China	July 28, 1976

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