12 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters: Quick Facts

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Flooded and debris-strewn landscape in Karmavadi village, Nagapattinam district, India, with an overturned boat in the foreground and damaged buildings and scattered debris in the background after the 2004 tsunami.

Several people search through the rubble of a collapsed building, retrieving belongings after a major earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

A wide street runs beside a river through devastated ruins in Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake, with scattered people walking among collapsed buildings and debris.

Bangladesh cyclone of 1991

Sichuan earthquake damage

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