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jeffhoard jeffhoard
 
M$1 December 26, 2008 09:14 PM

Have there been any Natural Disasters in History larger then the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami??

The 2004 Tsunami claimed over 200,000 lives in 13 countries
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/26/newsid_4631000/4631713.stm

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tboz tboz
 
 December 27, 2008 02:55 AM
The question asks what is the LARGEST natural disaster in history, all of these natural disasters that everyone speaks of are very small in comparison to the largest natural disaster in earths history, I'm talking about the great meteor that set back evolution millions of years the great disaster that wiped ou the dinosaurs. Did everyone forget about that one, the entire atmosphere was covered in a cloud of ash so thick that the sun was completely blocked out. THis natural disaster was the equivilant of a "nuclear winter" where the dust of an explosion blocks out the sun and the atmospher gets very cold because the suns rays cannot get through. The crazy thing is that that was not the only time in earths history that that happened, and it probably won't be the last.

edit: here a link to the bbc, which calls it the worst mass extinction to occur on the planet
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3707023.stm

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hannahsmom... hannahsmom...
 
December 26, 2008 09:21 PM
I would have to say that yes there has been, if you visit the following link you will see natural disasters that have killed millions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll#Top_10_deadliest_natural_disasters

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offthedome offthedome
 
December 26, 2008 09:25 PM
Wikipedia actually has a list of the worst natural disasters by death toll. I can't believe that's true, but it is. Here's the link:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll


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demanda demanda
 
December 26, 2008 09:29 PM
There have been several other natural disasters that were larger than the 2004 Tsunami, however, very few of them occurred in modern times. It also affected a broader region and more people than any modern disaster.The next most recent would be the Bhola cyclone that occurred in 1970 in Bangladesh. It killed about 500,000 people. The Chinese floods of 1931 killed more than 2 million people.
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http://www.livescience.com/history/080506-natural-disasters.html


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cjpennypac... cjpennypac...
 
December 26, 2008 11:37 PM
The worst natural disaster to strike mankind was the bubonic plague of the middle ages. An estimated 25 million lost their lives, in a sickness which wiped out over 25% of Europe's population.
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http://across.co.nz/WorldsWorstDisasters.html


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cjpennypac... cjpennypac...
 
December 27, 2008 01:45 AM
Right, but that was just an illness. One could then argue that something such as old age has killed the most people. The difference is that the Bubonic Plague was an epidemic, where people were wiped out in more of a wave, not a random occurrence. I, at least, would argue that small pox is not a natural disaster, where as the Bubonic Plague is.

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