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The costliest natural disasters in history:
🇯🇵Tohoku earthquake and tsunami (2011) - 360 billion dollars;
🇯🇵Great Hanshin earthquake (1995) - 200 billion dollars;
🇨🇳Great Sichuan earthquake (2008) - 150 billion dollars;
🇺🇸Hurricane Katrina (2005) - $125 billion;
🇺🇸Hurricane Harvey (2017) - $120 billion;
🇵🇷🇩🇴Hurricane Maria (2017) - $91 billion;
🇺🇸🇧🇸Hurricane Irma (2017) - $77 billion;
🇦🇺Forest fires in Australia (2019) - $77 billion;
🇨🇺🇧🇸🇺🇸Hurricane Sandy (2012) - $68 billion;
🇺🇸North American drought (1988-90) - $60 billion.