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-GHG increase<br> | -GHG increase<br> | ||
-global temperature increase<br> | -global temperature increase<br> | ||
- | -[[Urbanisation]]<br> | ||
-rising sea level<br> | -rising sea level<br> | ||
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==Timing:== | ==Timing:== | ||
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! style="width:10%;"| Rank | |||
! style="width:25%;"| Event | |||
! style="width:20%;"| Location | |||
! style="width:20%;"| Date | |||
! style="width:25%;"| Death toll (estimate) | |||
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| 1.||[[1931 China floods]]||[[China]]||<span style="display:none">01931-01-01</span>July, November, 1931|| {{nts|1,000,000}}2,500,000*<ref name="cbc.ca">[http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/05/08/f-natural-disasters-history.html The world's worst natural disasters Calamities of the 20th and 21st centuries] ''CBC News'.' Retrieved 2010-2-10.</ref> | |||
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| 2.||[[1887 Yellow River flood]]||China||<span style="display:none">01887-01-01</span>September, October, 1887||{{nts|900,000}}2,000,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flood/deluge.html |title=NOVA Online | Flood! | Dealing with the Deluge |publisher=Pbs.org |date= |accessdate=2010-08-11}}</ref> | |||
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| 3.||[[1556 Shaanxi earthquake]]||[[Shaanxi Province]], China||<span style="display:none">01556-01-01</span>January 23, 1556||{{nts|830,000}}<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953425_1953424,00.html | work=Time | title=Top 10 Deadliest Earthquakes | date=January 13, 2010 | accessdate=May 8, 2010}}</ref> | |||
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| 4.||[[1970 Bhola cyclone]]||[[East Pakistan]] (now [[Bangladesh]])||<span style="display:none">01970-01-01</span>November 13, 1970||{{nts|500,000}}<ref name="cbc.ca"/> | |||
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| 5. ||[[Pre-1980 North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons#1839 Indian Cyclone|1839 India Cyclone]]||[[India]]||<span style="display:none">01839-01-01</span>November 25, 1839 ||{{nts|300,000}}{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}} | |||
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| 6. ||[[526 Antioch earthquake]]||[[Antioch]], [[Turkey]]||{{dts|526|5}}||{{nts|250,000300,000}} | |||
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| 7.||[[1976 Tangshan earthquake]]||[[Tangshan]], [[Hebei]], China||<span style="display:none">01976-07-28</span>July 28, 1976||{{nts|242,419}}<ref name="cbc.ca"/> | |||
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| 8.||[[1920 Haiyuan earthquake]]||[[Haiyuan County|Haiyuan]], [[Ningxia]]-[[Gansu]], China||<span style="display:none">01920-12-16</span>December 16, 1920||{{nts|234,117}}<ref name="cbc.ca"/> | |||
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| 9.||[[2004 Indian ocean earthquake|2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami]]||[[Sumatra]], [[Indonesia]] ||<span style="display:none">02004-12-26</span>December 26, 2004 ||{{nts|230,210}} | |||
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| 10. ||[[2010 Haiti earthquake]]||[[Port-au-Prince]], [[Haiti]] ||<span style="display:none">02010-01-12</span>January 12, 2010||{{nts|222,000}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010rja6/#summary |title=Magnitude 7.0 - HAITI REGION |publisher=Earthquake.usgs.gov |date= |accessdate=2010-08-11}}</ref> | |||
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==Web Resources:== | ==Web Resources:== | ||
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11 <br> | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11 <br> | ||
http://across.co.nz/WorldsWorstDisasters.html <br> | http://across.co.nz/WorldsWorstDisasters.html <br> | ||
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VFV-3XR2V33-6&_user=10&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F1999&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1434235932&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=caa5fa5558aea88a05f7c941f4a1d8d9<br> | |||
http://unfccc.int/2860.php<br> | |||
http://www.ipcc.ch/organization/organization.htm<br> | |||
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters<br> | |||