List of disasters in Metro Manila by death toll

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This list of disasters in Metro Manila by death toll includes both natural and man-made disasters that took place in the general vicinity of Metro Manila in the Philippines. This list is not comprehensive in general.

Over 100,000 deaths

Year	Type	Fatalities	Damage (US$)	Article	Location	Comments
1945	Warfare	100,000–240,000		1945 Battle of Manila	Manila	Fatalities estimated. The city was completely destroyed.

10,000 to 100,000 deaths

Year	Type	Fatalities	Damage (US$)	Article	Location	Comments
1662	Insurrection	10,000^[1]		1662 Manila Chinese massacre	Manila	Fatalities estimated.

1,000 to 9,999 deaths

Year	Type	Fatalities	Damage (US$)	Article	Location	Comments
1603	Insurrection	5,000–25,000^[2]		1603 Manila Chinese massacre	Manila	Fatalities estimated.
1863	Earthquake	1,000^[3]		1863 Manila earthquake	Manila	Fatalities estimated.

100 to 999 deaths

Year	Type	Fatalities	Damage (US$)	Article	Location	Comments
1897	Warfare	891		Battle of Zapote Bridge	Las Piñas
1970	Typhoon	611^[4]		Typhoon Patsy	Metro Manila
1645	Earthquake	600^[5]		1645 Luzon earthquake	Province of Manila
1899	Warfare	539		Second Battle of Caloocan	Caloocan
2009	Typhoon	448		Typhoon Ketsana	Metro Manila
1899	Warfare	293		1899 Battle of Manila	Manila
1968	Earthquake	268^[6]		1968 Casiguran earthquake	Manila
1762	Warfare	247		1762 Battle of Manila	Manila
2000	Landslide	218–1,000		Payatas landslide	Quezon City
1899	Warfare	165		Battle of Zapote River	Las Piñas
1996	Fire	162		Ozone Disco fire	Quezon City	Recognized as the worst fire in Philippine history.
1896	Warfare	155		Battle of San Juan del Monte	San Juan
2004	Terrorism	116		SuperFerry 14 bombing	Manila Bay
1820	Riot	110–120^[7]		First cholera pandemic riots	Manila

Epidemics

Rank	Article	Dates of impact	Deaths	Ref.
1	Fifth cholera pandemic	1882	34,000	^[8]
2	COVID-19 pandemic	2020–present	10,277–13,546	^[9]
3	Spanish flu pandemic	1918	5,055	^[10]
4	Sixth cholera pandemic	1902	4,386	^[11]

References

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2. Clodfelter, Micheal (9 May 2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015. p. 61. ISBN 9780786474707.
3. Davis, Lee Allyn (2008). "Natural Disasters." pp. 85-86. Infobase Publishing.
4. Bankoff, G., Christensen, J. (2016). Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World: Bordering on Danger. Springer, 119.
5. Citizens' Disaster Response Center (Philippines). (1992). Disasters, the Philippine experience. University of Michigan, 63–64.
6. "1968 August 02 Casiguran Earthquake". Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
7. Jackson, Mark. (2016). The Routledge History of Disease. Routledge, 192.
8. Teck Ghee Lim. (1988). Reflections on Development in Southeast Asia. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ASEAN Economic Research Unit, 136–140.
9. "COVID-19 Tracker". doh.gov.ph. Department of Health. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
10. Philippines Census Office, Villamor, I., Ignacio, F. (1921). Census of the Philippine Islands Taken Under the Direction of the Philippine Legislature in the Year 1918, Volume 2. Bureau of Printing (Pennsylvania State University).
11. Philippines Dept. of the Interior, Dean Conant Worcester. (1909). A History of Asiatic Cholera in the Philippine Islands. Bureau of Printing (University of California).