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are these events prove the
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awesome and destructive power %uh nature welcome to watch motor dot com
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and today will be counting down our picks for the top 10 infamous natural
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disasters at the last 100 years
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I don't think anybody man realized how bad it was until it was over
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number ten 1992 hurricane andrew
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we start our list with a natural disaster that wasn't particularly deadly
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but was very expensive for the time nineteen ninety two's hurricane
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Andrew was a category four hurricane the touchdown mainly
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in the Bahamas Florida and Louisiana in late August
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with over forty billion dollars worth of damages resulting from this event
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Andrew was the most expensive tropical cyclone to hit the US to that point
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until it was overtaken in 2005 number nine
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2005 Hurricane Katrina Petrino was a huge story internationally
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both for its devastation and for the government's handling
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at the aftermath on August 29th 2005
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it began ripping apart homes and ultimately left the region
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underwater casualties wanted massive other entries on this list
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but property damage top 100 and eight billion
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Katrina was the United States most expensive hurricane
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ever and it left New Orleans struggling to get back on its feet
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number eight 2008 Sichuan earthquake
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a magnitude 8 earthquake in China may 12 2008
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only to be followed by a series of strong aftershocks
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the resulting homelessness and loss of life was shocking
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but the financial burden was overwhelming the chinese government
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announced it would be spending over 140 six and a half billion dollars to
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after the costliest disaster in the country's history number seven
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2008 Cyclone Nargis on May 2nd 2008
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just a few days prior to the devastating earthquake in nearby China
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Burma was hit by its worst ever natural disaster
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low-lying areas like rice field offered little protection for residents
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damages a ten billion dollars were reported and it has been suggested the
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casualties were purposefully
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underestimated to reduce negative political consequences
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number six 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami
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measuring and nine on the richter scale this March 11th 2011 disaster
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was Japan's strongest earthquake ever and one of the most powerful to a struct
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because the quake's epicenter was off Japan's coast a violent tsunami followed
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and destroyed everything
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in its wake perhaps the scariest part in this calamity
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where the ensuing meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant
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damage in the entire event has been estimated at $235 billion dollars
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making it the costliest natural disaster ever
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number five 1976 tension
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earthquake this densely populated Chinese city
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was shocked in the early morning hours of July 28 1976
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by huge earthquake followed by a magnitude seven
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aftershock just hours later this was China's second deadliest earthquake
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after another that occurred in 1556 the Chinese government rejected help in the
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and was heavily criticized for ignoring early warnings by seismologist
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the official death toll Rangers greatly from 242,000
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to 655,000 number four
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
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14 countries were touched by this December 26 2004 disaster
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and the most serious devastation was seen in Indonesia
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Sri Lanka and Thailand monster tsunami waves almost 100 feet high
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ravaged coastal cities following the 9.3 magnitude earthquake
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this quake was so strong because the entire planet to vibrate tour people
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and cause devastation that lasted years number three
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1970 Bhola cyclone this with the deadly cyclone in recorded history
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and hit East Pakistan on November 12 1970
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at its peak sustained winds of 115 miles per hour thrashed the region
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however most people died due to flooding because it a violent storm surge that
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entire island in villages were destroyed and the government was accused
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a mishandling the aftermath number two
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2010 Haiti earthquake the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti's most populated
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area on January 12 2010 hundreds of thousands of deaths were caused by the
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infrastructure and despite immense support from across the globe
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over one million people found themselves homeless in its wake
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number one 1931 central China floods
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coming in at number one is the deadliest natural disaster in modern history
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when the yellow young see and why rivers flooded in 1931
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millions of people died due to drowning famine and disease
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the Yellow River is actually considered the deadliest river in the world
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since it is flooded over 1,000 times in the past two millennia
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while the death toll at the 1931 event was tragic
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it has been suggested that up to one quarter and the Chinese population
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a roughly $51 million people were affected in some way by this catastrophe
