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They also said it would be one of the Top 5 natural disasters in the last 300 years, not #1.

Several floods in China easily top the 2004 tsunami.

[PAR35]

They also said it would be one of the Top 5 natural disasters in the last 300 years, not #1.

Several floods in China easily top the 2004 tsunami.

I've seen numbers as high as 140,000 for the Tokyo quake of 1923.

The 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China has some estimates for over 500,000.

[azhenfud]

"They also said it would be one of the Top 5 natural disasters in the last 300 years, not #1.

Several floods in China easily top the 2004 tsunami."

The criteria used discounting that statement re: China is there were several manmade dams which collapsed (not a true natural disaster), causing floods and those deaths were totalled by adding the initial flood deaths to those subsequent who starved or died of disease. The criteria used to class the tsunami is the death toll of immediate deaths from the natural occurance of the environ, not including those subsequently attributable through starvation and disease, places it at number one.