Photo shows a damaged church inside in Marikina City due to typhoon ‘Ondoy’, that also devastated hundreds of houses in the area after the Marikina River overflowed, triggering the worst flooding in decades. (Photo by MARIANNE BERMUDEZ)

MANILA, September 28, 2009 (AFP) - Flooding spawned by Typhoon "Ondoy" in the Philippines is just the latest in a series of natural disasters that afflict the archipelago, stuck in both the Pacific typhoon belt and its volcanic "Ring of Fire."

Storms, landslides or earthquakes -- and sometimes a combination of all three at once -- are an almost monthly event, displacing as many as eight million people every year, according to an Asian Development Bank study released in 2008.

The following is a list of the most recent and deadly disasters:

June 2008 - Typhoon Fengshen sinks a ferry killing about 800 people, claims nearly 500 other lives on land and leaves more than one million others homeless.

November 2006 - Typhoon Durian lashes the Philippines, unleashing volcanic mudslides around the slopes of Mayon volcano that leave almost a thousand dead or missing.

September 2006 - Typhoon Xangsane hits Manila, toppling trees, billboards and power lines, knocking out electrical service for days and leaving almost 200 dead.

February 2006 - After days of heavy rains and a minor earthquake, a landslide buries the village of Guinsaugon in the central Philippines, killing more than a thousand.

July 2000 - Rains spawned by a series of tropical storms cause a giant mountain of garbage to collapse in the Payatas open dump in Manila, burying hundreds of people who make a living from the trash. More than 200 dead bodies are recovered but many more are believed to have died.

October 1998 - Typhoons Zeb and Babs hit virtually one after another, leaving about 300 dead and ravaging agriculture.

October 1995 - Typhoon Angela brings storm surges, mudslides and a dam failure that cause close to a thousand deaths.

September 1993 - Typhoon Flo leaves nearly 600 dead.

November 1991 - Tropical storm Thelma hits the central Philippines, causing some 6,000 deaths, making it the deadliest storm ever to hit the country. Many of the deaths were in the central city of Ormoc which was hit by a flash flood that left hundreds dead.

June 1991 - Dormant for hundreds of years, Pinatubo volcano erupts north of Manila, burying whole towns in ash and forcing millions to flee their homes. About 700 die, many of them from diseases in evacuation centres.

November 1990 - Typhoon Mike triggers mudslides that leave over 700 dead.

July 1990 - A powerful earthquake hits the main Philippine island of Luzon, devastating cities and leaving over 1,600 dead.

November 1987 - Typhoon Nina causes storm surges that destroy coastal villages and leave about 600 dead.

August 1984 - Typhoon Ike brings heavy winds and rains that destroy whole towns and leave over 1,400 dead particularly in the southern Philippines, a region usually spared typhoons.