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1138 BCE
Aleppo Earthquake
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. -
526 BCE
Antioch Earthquake
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. -
Jan 23, 1556
Shaanxi Earthquake
Location: Northern China
The catastrophic earthquake had a magnitude of 8 and killed approximately 830,000 people. Which has reduced their population by 60%. -
India Cyclone
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. -
Yellow River Flood
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. -
Haiyuan earthquake
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. -
Yangtze River Flood
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. -
Bhola Cyclone
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 -
Tangshan Earthquake
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. -
Indian Ocean Earthquake
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.
