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What is the most dangerous natural disaster?

Answer 1

Floods.

Floods are the most dangerous natural disaster in terms of the overall number of lives lost and the items lost.

Nearly 85 years ago, the Yangtze River overflowed and caused a series of floods in China, resulting in the worst dangerous natural disaster on record, the Central China Floods, which occurred in the summer of 1931 and claimed an estimated 3.7 million lives due to starvation, disease, and drowning, some of which were caused by aftereffects.

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Answer 2

Samuel Albin

The most dangerous natural disaster in terms of loss of life is generally considered to be earthquakes.

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