What was the worst disaster that ever hit to earth in all times?

Question

natural disaster

Answer 1

Malaria has claimed more lives than any other illness or condition.

The Pandemic (Black Death) in the 1300's killed 20 million peopole in Europe which at the time was a quarter of the population.

The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-9 killed up to 50 million people worldwide.

The greatest single natural disaster was an earthquake in the Shaanzi providence of China in 15 hundred and something, that killed in excess of 1.1 million people. Flooding in Bangladesh in the 1970's claimed about the same number of lives.

You could also argue that the mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Stratigraphic Boundary some 65 million years ago was the worst didstater ever as it wiped out the dinosoars and thousands of other species. It's now widely beleived that an asteroid impact was the cause.

Answer 2

Permian-Triassic extinction, about 251 million years ago. Many scientists suspect a comet or asteroid impact, although direct evidence has not been found. Others believe the cause was flood volcanism from the Siberian Traps and related loss of oxygen in the seas. Still others believe the impact triggered the volcanism and also may have done so during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. The Permian-Triassic catastrophe was Earths worst mass extinction, killing 95 percent of all species, 53 percent of marine families, 84 percent of marine genera and an estimated 70 percent of land species such as plants, insects and vertebrate animals.

Answer 3

The 1960 Valdivia earthquake or tremendous Chilean Earthquake Sunday, 22 would 1960 is as a lot as now the most functional earthquake ever recorded in the international score 9.5 on the prompt value scale. It befell contained in the afternoon (19:11 GMT, 15:11 close by time) and its ensuing tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, jap New Zealand, southeast Australia, and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.

Answer 4

I would think probably the "Spanish Flu" epidemic of 1918 would be considered the worst natural disaster. The whole world was affected by it. At least 20 million died, although some estimates put the final toll at 50 million. It is believed that between 20 per cent and 40 per cent of the entire world's population got sick.

Answer 5

The Black Death was an outbreak of bubonic plague that entered Melcombe Regis in 1348, and within a year had killed nearly half the population.

The Black Death, began with a minor outbreak of bubonic plague, medical term Yersinia Pestis, which started in the Gobi Dessert. It was transmitted throughout China and reached Europe when a Kipchak army, besieging a Crimean trading post, catapulted plague-infested corpses over the city walls. Plague spread throughout Europe, carried by fleas in the fur of rats, and eventually reached the Dorset coast on 24th June 1348.

Contagion carried quickly, and about two thirds of the population became infected. The morbidity rate was about 66%, i.e. if you caught it, you had a two to one chance of dying. Chroniclers relate how the disease raged in a town for about a month and then left. It moved gradually northwards until it had burnt itself out. Within twelve months, nearly half the population was dead.

After the problem of burying the dead in plague pits was over, people tried to get back to normality. But life was never the same again. The decreased population meant a shortage of labour and workmen demanded and received pay increases. The government of Edward III tried to cap pay increases by an Act of Parliament, The Statute of Labourers, the first government attempt to control the economy. Workmen who demanded too much were placed in the stocks, that is trapped in a wooden gadget for a day, and employers who paid over the odds were fined. The Act was largely unsuccessful as employers coaxed workers from other employers, with promises abundant pay increases, and wages kept on rising. One recorded case shows that a joiner who built the stocks for the punishment of greedy workers was paid three times the legal rate for his labour.

The government also passed The Sumptuary Act of 1367, making it illegal for the lower classes to spend their new wealth on new apparel of ermine or silk. Only the aristocracy and some senior gentlefolk were allowed to wear these items. Today when barristers are raised to the rank of Queen’s Council, they are said to ‘take silk’, indicating their elevation in status. The Act has never been repealed, so if you wear silk, and if any of Edward III’s commissioners are still alive, you could get put in the stocks!

By the reign of Richard II, the economy had settled down and landowners switched from labour intensive methods, grain production, to low labour processes, particularly sheep farming. Increased wool production boosted the economy and became the nation’s chief export, making England a major economic power.

Answer 6

When a massive asteriod slammed into the earth and killed the dinosaurs. Hiltler, Moa, The A and H bombs, When God caused the great flood, When we begin clonning ourselves and my favorite, when man ascended to the top of the food chain.

Answer 7

Probably the asteroid that hit Earth or the creation of man...

Answer 8

People.

Answer 9

King George's "election"

Answer 10

I would have to say the birth of George Dubya