The ABSOLUTE worst Natural Disasters....

[JKurz1]

Boy did we get into this today............what was the worst natty disaster? Listing? How can the tsunami not rank up there?????

 

[*MissFit*]

A bad hair day for me. truly nature being cruel

 

[KillahBee]

SoKlules

 

[Phaded]

whats sokules

 

[JKurz1]

A bad hair day for me. truly nature being cruel

Sorta funny, but then not really...............

 

[BrandonXJ]

I think an earthquake or a flood or something killed 1.3 million in China.. like within the last couple hundred years.

 

[from zero]

Some river in China flooded. Hundreds of thousands (Millions?) died.
Mt. Vesuvius.

Uh ... that's all I can think of right now.

 

[-SD-]

The woman who changed her name to Werd, gotta be near the top.
We should start a worst train wrecks thread also, haha.

 

[Razorguns]

smallpox?

 

[coverguy]

Some worse natural disasters: (who can really say these horrific events are worse than each other. instead i'll call them equally horrific.)



1201 - Mediterranean

The deadliest earthquake in history kills approximately 1.1 million people in Egypt and Syria.

1556 - China

A quake hits the Chinese province of Shansi on February 2, 1556. It kills 830,000 people.

1887 - China

In 1887, about 900,000 people died when the country's Yellow River burst its banks.

1931 - China

The massive flooding of the Yangtze River in China in 1931 caused more than 3 million deaths from flooding and starvation.

1938 and 1939 - China

Floods kill 1 million people in a two-year period in China.

1959 - China

In July 1959, massive floods in China kill at least 2 million people.

1970 - Bangladesh

Bangladesh loses more than 300,000 people in November 1970 from cyclone-induced flooding.

1976 - China

A deadly earthquake of a magnitude 8.0 strikes Tianjin, China, on July 27, 1976. The official casualty figure issued by the Chinese government was 255,000 people.

1991 - Bangladesh

Bangladesh lost more than 130,000 people in April 1991 from cyclone-induced flooding.

 

[-SD-]

China got some sorry-ass luck maing. But they have more than enough peeps to withstand shit like that it seems.

 

[HumorMe]

Some worse natural disasters: (who can really say these horrific events are worse than each other. instead i'll call them equally horrific.)



1201 - Mediterranean

The deadliest earthquake in history kills approximately 1.1 million people in Egypt and Syria.

1556 - China

A quake hits the Chinese province of Shansi on February 2, 1556. It kills 830,000 people.

1887 - China

In 1887, about 900,000 people died when the country's Yellow River burst its banks.

1931 - China

The massive flooding of the Yangtze River in China in 1931 caused more than 3 million deaths from flooding and starvation.

1938 and 1939 - China

Floods kill 1 million people in a two-year period in China.

1959 - China

In July 1959, massive floods in China kill at least 2 million people.

1970 - Bangladesh

Bangladesh loses more than 300,000 people in November 1970 from cyclone-induced flooding.

1976 - China

A deadly earthquake of a magnitude 8.0 strikes Tianjin, China, on July 27, 1976. The official casualty figure issued by the Chinese government was 255,000 people.

1991 - Bangladesh

Bangladesh lost more than 130,000 people in April 1991 from cyclone-induced flooding.

I wonder why the figures never say....255,731 or 300,459. It's always round numbers?

 

[john937]

Google: Yellowstone earthquake volcano
Man when that thing blows we're all gonna wish we were dead.

 

[Razorguns]

so basically god hates china and south asian countries.

 

[RottenWillow]

the meteor that impacted the earth a gazillion years ago near modern day Baja California.

Killed a whole bunch o' critters and such like.

 

[Deterass]

so basically god hates china and south asian countries.

lmao!

 

[IwouldSlamU]

its amazing to see how the earth keeps changing landslides in CA earthquakes in asian places.