. Our mother earth has been undergoing changes; both slow and catastrophic from the very beginning. Disasters are inevitable and it doesn’t have any boundaries.

2. Introduction Classification of disaster Natural disaster Human made disasters Human-induced disasters Top ten deadliest disasters Effect of the disasters on human life : *Top 10 disasters in India (sorted by no. of people killed) *Indian ocean earthquake 2004

3. *Yellow river flood 1931 *Kashmir earthquake 2005 *Bihar flood 2008 *leh cloudburst 2010 Damage caused to infrastructure due to disasters *Top 10 disasters in India (sorted by damage cost) *Tangshan earthquake 1976 *Bhopal disaster *Banqiao dam failure *India cyclone 1839

4. Damaged caused to Environment *Bhola cyclone 1970 *Kashmir earthquake 2005 *Russia heat-wave 2010 *Gujarat earthquake 2001

7. rank event location date Death toll 1 China flood 1931 china July 1931 2,500,000 2 Yellow river flood 1887 china Sept. 1887 2,000,000 3 Shaonxi earthquake 1556 Shaanxi china Jan 1556 830,000 4 Bhola cyclone 1970 bangladesh Nov. 1970 500,000 5 India cyclone 1893 india Nov. 1893 300,000 6 Antioch earthuake turkey May 586 250,000 7 Tangshan earthquake 1976 china July 1976 242,419 8 Haiyun earthquake 1920 china Dec.1920 234,117 9 Indian ocean tsunami 2004 indonesia Dec.2004 230,210 10 Haiti earthuake 2010 haiti Jan.2010 222,000

9. rank disaster date killing 1 epidemic 1920 2,000,000 2 drought 1924 1,500,000 3 epidemic 1907 1,300,000 4 drought 1900 1,250,000 5 epidemic 1920 500,000 6 drought 1965 500,000 7 drought 1966 500,000 8 drought 1967 500,000 9 epidemic 1926 423,000 10 epidemic 1924 300,000

20. rank disaster date Damage cost U.S $(000’S) 1 Flood July 2005 3,500,000 2 Earthquake Jan.2001 2,623,000 3 Wind-strom Oct.1999 2,500,000 4 flood June 2005 2,300,000 5 Wind-strom Aug.1990 2,200,000 6 Wind-strom may. 1990 1,300,000 7 flood Aug 2000 1,221,670 8 wave/surge Dec. 2004 1,022,800 9 flood June 1988 929,200 10 drought July 2002 910,721