World’s Costliest Natural Disasters

Japan’s devastating earthquake has pushed natural disasters back into the headlines again, and the Telegraph runs down the most costly in history: Earthquake in Sichuan, China, 2008: The 7.8-magnitude temblor killed more than 70,000 and left 11 million homeless. Cost: $147 billion. Earthquake in Kobe, Japan, 1995: The…

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World’s Costliest Natural Disasters

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