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TOP 20 WORST DISASTERS
20: The Armero Disaster. Disaster Type: Volcanic Eruption. Death Toll: 20,000.
19: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster. Disaster Type: Nuclear Meltdown. Death Toll: 4,000.
18: The Joplin Tornado. Disaster Type: Tornado. Death Toll: 158.
17: The Haiti Earthquake. Disaster Type: Earthquake. Death Toll: 220,000.
16: Hurricane Katrina. Disaster Type: Hurricane. Death Toll: 1,836.
15: The Chilean Earthquake. Disaster Type: Earthquake. Death Toll: 5,000.
14: The Black Plague. Disaster Type: Virus. Death Toll: 25,000,000.
13: The Bangladesh Cyclone. Disaster Type: Hurricane. Death Toll: 15,000.
12: 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. Disaster Type: Earthquake. Death Toll: 63.
11: Shaanxi Earthquake. Disaster Type: Earthquake. Death Toll: 830,000.
10: 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake & Tsunami. Disaster Type: Earthquake/Tsunami. Death Toll: 230,000.
9: Sinking of the Titanic. Disaster Type: Collision/Sinking. Death Toll: 1,503.
8: Mt. Saint Helens Eruption. Disaster Type: Volcanic Eruption. Death Toll: 57.
7: World War II. Disaster Type: War. Death Toll: 60,000,000.
6: The Holocaust. Disaster Type: Genocide. Death Toll: 11,000,000.
5: 2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami. Disaster Type: Earthquake/Tsunami. Death Toll: 15,891.
4: Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius (Pompeii). Disaster Type: Volcanic Eruption. Death Toll: 16,000.
3: The Great Floods of China. Disaster Type: Flood. Death Toll: 4,000,000.
2: Mao Zedong Massacre. Disaster Type: Genocide. Death Toll: 45,000,000.
1: The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Disaster Type: Asteroid/Extinction. Death Toll: 90% of all life on Earth.
I also use the term "Unnatural Disaster" to describe a disaster that doesn't have to do with any weather phenomena. Such disaster I claim as unnatural are Human Acts, Viruses, and Asteroids.