What was the world's most deadly recorded natural disaster?

robboy

That would have to be the K-T Extinctions, which eradicated approx. 70 percent of life on Earth due either to volcanic activity or asteroid fallout, either of which caused drastic and disastrous temperature changes. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0617_020617_fossilleaves.html Dec 31 03, 12:39 PM

markklein199

If you are talking about dealy in terms of human lives, I believe it was an earthquake in Egypt and Syria that claimed the lives of approx. 1.1 million people in 1201. http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1999/12/14/53.asp Also, 3 million people died in China in 1931 from mass starvation that followed a flooding of the Yangtze River and 24 million people died in China during a 1907 drought. http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.ferris/statistic3.htm But I'd go with the earthquake, because I don't think a drought really counts as a natural disaster and I would say that the after effects of a disaster, such as starvation, don't count if you are looking for the highest death toll caused by the disaster itself. Jan 02 04, 8:56 AM

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