New Delhi: Following chronology of some of the world's deadliest natural disasters - including earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions - since the start of the last century:
December 28, 1908: A magnitude-7.2 earthquake kills 123,000 people in the Messina-Reggio Calabria area of eastern Sicily and southernmost Italy.
January 13, 1915: A 7.5-magnitude earthquake kills 29,980 in Avezzano, Italy.
December 16, 1920: Gansu, China is hit by an 8.6-magnitude earthquake that kills 200,000 people.
September 1, 1923: An temblor of 8.3 magnitude in Japan destroys one-third of Tokyo and most of Yokohama. More than 140,000 are killed.
May 22, 1927: An earthquake reaching 7.9 magnitude hits near Xining, China and kills approximately 200,000.
December 25, 1932: Approximately 70,000 people are killed when an earthquake reaching 7.6 magnitude hits China's Gansu region.
May 30, 1935: A magnitude 7.5 temblor strikes Quetta, Pakistan, killing more than 30,000 people.
January 24, 1939: An earthquake of 8.3 magnitude in Chile kills roughly 28,000 people.
December 27, 1939: More than 32,000 die in the Erzincan province in eastern Turkey during a 7.9-magnitude quake.
October 5, 1948: An earthquake of 7.3 magnitude in Turkmenistan kills over 110,000 people.
August 15, 1950: Up to 30,000 are estimated to have been killed in an earthquake of 8.6 magnitude in Assam, India.
May 31, 1970: An earthquake reaching a magnitude of 7.9 in Peru leaves over 60,000 dead.
November 13, 1970: A cyclone in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh kills at least 300,000 people.
February 4, 1976: A series of earthquakes reaching a magnitude of 7.5 in Guatemala leave over 23,000 dead.
July 28, 1976: An earthquake with a magnitude estimated at between 7.8 and 8.2 strikes China's Tangshan region, killing more than 240,000.
September 16, 1978: An earthquake of 7.7 magnitude in Tabas, Iran kills 25,000 people.
November 14-16, 1985: Volcanic eruption of Nevada del Ruiz near Bogota, Colombia, kills approximately 25,000 people.
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December 7, 1988: A 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Armenia kills nearly 25,000.
June 21, 1990: An earthquake of 7.7 magnitude in northwest Iran destroys cities and villages in Caspian Sea area and kills at least 50,000 people.
September 30, 1993: As many as 10,000 are killed from an earthquake of 6.0 magnitude that struck the state of Maharashtra in India.
August 17, 1999: More than 17,000 are killed as a magnitude-7.4 quake hits western Turkey.
December 26, 2003: More than 26,000 killed by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake that strikes the ancient historic city of Bam in southeast Iran.
December 26, 2004: A 9.0 earthquake off the western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island launches tsunami waves that slam shorelines in Asia and Africa, leaving at least 216,000 people dead or missing.
October 8, 2005: A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Kashmir, killing some 87,000 people on the Pakistani and Indian sides of the divided Himalayan region.
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