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Location: Aleppo, Syria
Approximately 230,000 people died and the city suffered extensive damage. Aleppo is located in northern Syria, a region that is part of the Dead Sea Fault system because it rests on the boundary between the Arabian geologic plate and the African plate. -
Location: Antakya, Turkey
Approximately 250,000 to 300,000 people died as a result of the earthquake, according to historical writings. After the quake, a massive fire destroyed most of the buildings that the earthquake had spared. -
Location: Northern China
The catastrophic earthquake had a magnitude of 8 and killed approximately 830,000 people. Which has reduced their population by 60%. -
Location: Andhra Pradesh, India
The cyclone triggered a 40 foot wave that destroyed much of the village and most of the ships in the area with 20,000 people drowning out at sea. An estimated 300,000 people died because of the cyclone. -
Location: China's Henan Province
When the yellow river overran the dikes in Northern China, the flood devastated 11 towns and hundreds of villages leaving millions homeless. The town’s waters covered 50,000 square miles killing an estimated 900,000 to 2,000,000 people. -
Location: Haiyuan County, Republic of China
This earthquake is also known as the Gansu earthquake because Ningxia was a part of Gansu Province at the time. The quake killed 235,502 people, according to the Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World, which is maintained by the International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering in Japan. -
Location: Yangtze River
An estimated 3.7 million people died from drownings disease and starvation. According to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration more than 51 million people or one fourth of china’s population were affected by central china floods. -
Location: East Pakistan
It flooded much of the lower lying islands of the Ganges Delta. Approximately 500,000 people died primarily because of the floods that resulted in the cyclones storm surge and the rise in water level that overtook the shore -
Location: Epicenter of Tangshan
It was an industrial city with approximately one million inhabitants located in Hebei, People's Republic of China. Tangshan's dense population was devastated by the magnitude-8 earthquake. The Chinese government initially reported a death toll of 655,000, but that number was later re-estimated to about 242,000 people. -
Location: Sumatra, Indonesia
Approximately 230,000 people died and the city suffered extensive damage. Aleppo is located in northern Syria, a region that is part of the Dead Sea Fault system because it rests on the boundary between the Arabian geologic plate and the African plate.
