BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Tsunami among world's worst disasters

Environmental disasters aren't new to mankind, but intense CNN, BBC, CBC reporting of them is new.

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Tsunami among world's worst disasters: "2004 Asian quake disaster - toll so far exceeds 110,000
2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran - official casualty figure is 26,271
1976 Earthquake in Tangshan, China, kills 242,000
1970 Cyclone in Bangladesh kills 500,000
1923 Tokyo earthquake kills 140,000
1887 China's Yellow River breaks its banks in Huayan Kou killing 900,000
1896 Tsunami kills 27,000 in Japan
1815 Volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa Island kills 90,000
1556 Earthquake in China's Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces kills an estimated 830,000 "