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- - - - Rank: 1st
      - 1960-05-22
      - Magnitude: 9.5
      - Strongest earthquake
        in the world
      - Casualties: 1,000–6,000 killed
  - - - Rank: 2nd
      - Magnitude: 9.2
      - 1964-03-28
      - Casualties:131 killed
- - - - March 27, 1980
      - 57 deaths
      - Cause: volcanic eruption
      - Largest landslide in the world
  - - - 100,000+ Deaths
      - December 16, 1920
      - Cause: Earthquake
      - Deadliest landslide in the world
- - - - Tsunami: 524 m (1,720 ft)
      - Casualties: 5
      - Magnitude: 7.8–8.3
      - 1958-07-10
      - Rank: 1st
      - Largest tsunami in the world
      - Cause: Earthquake
  - - - 2004-12-26
      - Magnitude: 9.1–9.3
      - Rank: 2nd
      - Tsunami: 15 to 30 m (50 to 100ft) max. 51 m (167 ft)
      - Casualties: 227,898 dead
- - - - November 3-13 1970
      - Casualties: 500,000 died
      - Deadliest typhoon in the world
- - - - over 100 °F (38 °C) or higher in multiple areas
      - 1983 started in late spring
      - cause: incredibly intense heat
      - Probably, the 2nd worst drought in the USA
      - Effect: Almost all the counties in the State of Indiana[1] and many in Illinois were given a drought disaster declaration because of dangerous heat spells, along with extremely dry conditions. In Kentucky, the Drought of 1983 was second to worst in the 20th century. Numerous trees and shrubs went into dormancy.
- - - - Death: 30.000
      - Missing: Unknown
      - Cause: Ancash earthquake
      - May 31, 1970
      - Deadliest avalanche in the world
      - Rank: 1st
  - - - Gran Poz summit Avalanches
        
        Casualties: between 270 and 332 men died
        
        Casualties: 2000–10,000 killed
        
        Cause: a warm and humid air mass was pushed north into the mountains from the Mediterranean coast.
      - Val Ciampi d'Arei Avalanches
        
        An avalanche struck an Italian division of the 7th Alpini
        
        Cause: (Probably) overrunning their mountain barracks
- - - - Cause: caused by the destruction of the dikes near Kaifeng (Henan province) by Chinese Nationalist forces under Chiang Kai-shek in an effort to halt the advance of the invading Japanese troops during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45.
      - Casualties: 400,000 - 900,000 killed
      - 9 June 1938
      - Biggest flood in the world
  - - - Deadliest flood in the world
      - July–November 1931 (depending on river)
      - Casualties: 422,499-4,000,000 killed (probably died by drowning, infected by cholera &/or lack of food)
      - Cause: by the Yellow Yangtze and Huai Rivers of China flooded in 1931
- - - - Causes:
        
        started fires: Lightning strikes, accident and alleged arson
        
        Enhanced fires: Drought, Global warming, positive indian ocean dipole, high temperature and substantial fuel loads
      - June 2019 – May 2020
      - Deaths: 34 direct
        445 indirect (smoke inhalation)
      - Largest wildfire in the world
  - - - October 8, 1871
      - Cause: small fires used for land-clearing that blew out of control and created a firestorm.
      - 1,200 Deaths
      - Deadliest wildfire in the world