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Subject: The worst-ever disaster

Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Apr 16 19

What would you say is the worst ever disaster - natural or of human origin - to affect the earth since we started writing stuff down so that others would know something dreadful had happened. I'm not talking about wars, famines, droughts or genocides since those take months or years, but the cataclysmic one-off events that change lives and landscapes. I'd but the 14th century plague epidemics that wiped out 1/3 of the population of Europe, the 2004 tsunami that killed over 230,000 people in southeast Asia, the Great Fire of London in 1666, the eruptions of Vesuvius in 79 and Krakatoa in 1883 would be high on my list. How about you?

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havan_ironoak
This list covers the worst natural disasters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll

Reply #1. Apr 18 19, 1:46 AM
Mixamatosis star


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Covid 19 might become a contender. There are not many countries unaffected by it.

Reply #2. Apr 18 20, 2:49 PM
boxjaw star


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Well reply #1 kind of effectively ended this chat. LOL

Reply #3. Apr 18 20, 5:51 PM
koalaburger
WW2 and the Spanish Flu after WW1.

Reply #4. Apr 20 20, 6:54 AM
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I was looking at the link in #1, and running my eye down the locations to see if the UK featured in any.

Is it just me who has absolutely no recollection of the 2003 European heatwave? I know that I live relatively far north, but the Wikipedia page seems to suggest that heat records were exceeded even in Scotland.

If you'd asked me before I would have said that it rained all summer.

Reply #5. Apr 20 20, 7:14 AM
DireWolf74
They all sound pretty bad to me! :-)

Reply #6. Apr 20 20, 7:38 AM
DireWolf74
Pick which is the best way to die....they all are not good.

Reply #7. Apr 20 20, 7:39 AM


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