By the numbers Disaster deaths

1,281: Death toll from Hurricane Katrina

80,000: Death toll from Oct. 8 earthquake in Pakistan*

286,000: Death toll from last year’s Indian Ocean tsunami

830,000: Death toll from Shaanxi earthquake in China, 1556

Source: wikipedia.org

* Still rising

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