Natural Disasters & Epidemics

2009  bolivian dengue fever epidemic in Bolivia killing 18 people   

2009  Gujarat hepatitis outbreak in India killing 49 people   

2009  Dengue fever in Queensland, Australia   

2009  Mumps outbreaks in the 2000s in Worldwide   

2009  10 West African meningitis outbreak in West Africa killing 1,100 people   

2009  flu pandemic (informally called "swine flu") in Worldwide killing 151,700-575,400 people   

2009  sumatra earthquake in Indonesia killing 1,115 people   

2010  Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board   

2010  The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns   

2010  afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board.   

2010  ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.   

2010  Haiti cholera outbreak in Hispaniola killing 10,075 (May 2017) people   

2010  Haiti earthquake in Haiti killing 100,000-316,000 people   

2011  a magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquake jolted eastern Turkey near the city of Van, killing 604 people, and damaging about 2,200 buildings.   

2011  Zanzibar ferry sinking: The MV Spice Islander I, carrying at least 800 people, sinks off the coast of Zanzibar, killing 240 people   

2011  sudden violent storms strike southern Sri Lanka, killing 27 people and drowning many fishermen caught by surprise. Thousands of homes lose their roofs and several more sustain damage. Landslides along with flooding was reported on the mainland.   

2011  a powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.   

2011  An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing at least 158 people, the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950   

2011  an earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.   

2011  An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people   

2011  dengue outbreak in Pakistan in Pakistan killing 350+ people   

2011  tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan killing 15,897 people   

2012  Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan   

2012  gunman opens fire on Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin killing six people and committing suicide   

2012  Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone   

2012  Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage   

2012  yellow fever outbreak in Darfur, Sudan in Darfur Sudan killing 171 (as of 10 January 2013) people   

2012  Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in Worldwide killing 862 (as of 13 January 2020) people   

2012  Typhoon Bopha in Philippines killing 1,901 people   

2013  The Nigerian Army bomb a Boko Haram camp, killing 18 people   

2013  Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa in Worldwide, primarily concentrated in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone killing 11,300+ people   

2013  14 chikungunya outbreak in Americas killing 183 people   

2013  typhoon Haiyan in Philippines, Vietnam, China killing 6,340 people   

2014  Madagascar plague outbreak in Madagascar killing 40 people   

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