Posts Tagged ‘casualties’

The final casualty estimates of the Jan, 12th, 2010 quake in Haiti will clearly place among the deadliest natural catastrophes of recent times. That list includes: the 1970 Bangladesh cyclone, believed to have killed 300,000 people; the 1974 northeast China earthquake, which killed at least 242,000 people; and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, with 226,000 [...]