1839 Coringa Cyclone

On 25 November 1839, a ferocious cyclone struck the port town of Coringa on India's Andhra Pradesh coast, sending a massive storm surge across the delta and killing an estimated 300,000 people. Some 20,000 vessels in the harbour were destroyed, and the town was so thoroughly obliterated that it was never fully rebuilt. The cyclone came only 50 years after a previous storm had already devastated the same settlement in 1789, making Coringa one of history's most repeatedly catastrophic locations. Its death toll was 1.3 times greater than the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.