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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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12 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters: Media

This list compiles 12 of the deadliest natural disasters in the world in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004
View of a tsunami-damaged village in Tamil Nadu, southern India, December 2004.
Prakash Singh—AFP/Getty Images
Haiti earthquake of 2010
People picking through the rubble of their home after it was destroyed by a massive...
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923
Damage caused by the Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake, 1923.
EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica, Inc.
Bangladesh cyclone of 1991
Flooded villages and fields in the aftermath of the Bangladesh cyclone, 1991.
Staff Sergeant Val Gempis–Air Force Photo/Department of Defense (photo ID: DF-ST-92-06136)
Sichuan earthquake damage
Heavy rains, rock falls, and mud-covered roads hindered rescue and recovery operations...
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