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The most expensive natural disaster is the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami, ... South Africa: $1.56 [265] ... Cost Fatalities Event Type Year Nation $ Million ...
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Disasters in South Africa by year ... Natural disasters in South Africa (5 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Disasters in South Africa"
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Floods in September 1987 became the deadliest natural disaster in the history of South Africa, with 506 fatalities. A cut-off low moved across South Africa, fueled by moisture from the southeast. [1] Over a five-day period beginning on September 25, parts of Natal province in
In South Africa more than 6,000 people have been displaced and 70 known to have been killed due to the floods. [4] [6] This number is expected to rise as police continue to search for an unknown number of missing persons. [7] Eight of the country's nine provinces have been declared disaster areas, allowing for national funds to be distributed.
Orkney, South Africa: 62 31 August 1987 A methane gas explosion at the St. Helena gold mine severed the cable of a double-deck elevator, causing it to fall 1.4 kilometers to the bottom of the mine shaft, killing all 52 people on board. 10 others who were not in the elevator were killed in the explosion. [105] [106] Welkom, South Africa: 31 27 ...