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    What was the one natural disaster in the world that claimed the most lives?

    Question #49547. Asked by dadbubby.

    robboy

    This one, again, is my favorite. Personally, I believe it was an asteroid impaction rather than volcanic action, but whatever it was happened about 65 million years ago and decimated virtually all life on earth.
    http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaur.html

    Jul 18 04, 12:36 PM
    Arpeggionist

    If you're refering to the most human lives, it would be the explosion of Mt. Tambora in 1815(?). Somewhere in the area of 95,000 people lost their lives as a direct result of the explosion of that volcano.

    Jul 18 04, 1:35 PM
    kevinatilusa

    There have been worse. A 1201 earthquake in Egypt killed 1.1 million, according to

    http://www2.worldbook.com/wc/popup?path=features/earthquakes&page=html/mostdeadly.htm&direct=yes

    and I wouldn't be too surprised if some flood did even worse.

    [Jul 18 04 7:59 PM] kevinatilusa writes:

    http://across.co.nz/ChineseNoah.htm
    gives that a 1931 Chinese flood killed 3.7 million. There may be worse before the 20th century.

    [Jul 20 04 12:03 AM] kevinatilusa writes:

    Still thinking about this...

    In large part the answer could also depend on what constitutes a disaster (time span, etc.). The Spanish Flu around the time of WWI killed 20,000,000 or so, and the Black Death of the 14th century probably killed a comparible amount. I think even the China figure I cited above includes those killed in the famine resulting from the flood.

    Jul 18 04, 7:57 PM

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