Top 10 deadliest natural disasters in history

A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard that affects the environment, and leads to financial, environmental and human losses.

1. 1931 China floods - 1,000,000-2,500,000

2. 1887 Yellow river floods - 900,000-2,000,000

3. 1556 Shaanxi earthquake - 830,000

4. 1970 Bhola cyclone - 500,000

5. 1839 India cyclone - 300,000

6. 2004 Indian ocean tsunami - 230,000-310,000

7. 526 Antioch earthquake - 250,000-300,000

8. 1976 Tangshan earthquake - 242,419-665,000

9. 1920 Haiyuan earthquake - 234,117

10. 1139 Aleppo earthquake - 230,000

Something you should know before I continue is that these numbers are based on death toll not magnitude and they have all occurred in the last 2000 years. Something you may notice is that 5 of the disasters are earthquakes and my theory is that most big cities are located either in valleys that are made because of a fault line. Also lots of people live on the coast of a continent were there are a lot of fault lines.