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List of Disasters Note: Click the city/country to view the news and the disaster type to view the location of the news in the DFDN website. This list of disasters is not a complete list and still continuously being updated. The source of disasters information are from various news and UNISDR website. The latest figures of natural disasters (2010) is on UNISDR and Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) webpage. | Date | City/Country | Disaster type
| Victims and damages
| | | | | | 2010
| | | | | 20 May 2010 | Nyiragongo volcano, DR Congo
| Climatic: landslide
| 54 killed | | 18 May 2010 | East and west Uganda
| Climatic: landslide | At least 8 killed | 17 May 2010
| Eastern and Central Europe
| Climatic: Flood | At least 14 killed | 14 May 2010
| Southern China
| Climatic: flood | At least 86 killed | 11 May 2010
| Oklahoma, USA
| Climatic: tornado
| At least 5 killed | 7 May 2010
| Northern Afghanistan
| Climatic: flood | At least 65 killed | 6 May 2010
| Southwestern China | Climatic: tornado
| At least 39 killed | 6 May 2010
| Sanaa, Yemen
| Climatic: flood | 7 killed | 3 May 2010
| Nashville, USA
| Climatic: flood | At least 29 killed | 30 April 2010
| Marakwet, Kenya
| Climatic: landslide | At least 8 killed | 28 April 2010
| Orissa, India
| Climatic: heat wave | 113 killed
| 25 April 2010
| Mississippi, USA
| Climatic: Tornado
| 12 killed | 19 April 2010
| Samangan, Afghanistan
| Geophysic: earthquake | At least 11 killed | 14 April 2010
| Qinghai, China
| Geophysic: earthquake | 2,039 killed | 7 April 2010
| Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
| Climatic: flood and landslide | 150 killed
| 5 April 2010
| Mexico-US border
| Geophysic: earthquake | 2 killed
| 30 March 2010
| Shanxi, China
| Climatic: flood | 7 killed, 31 missing
| 8 March 2010
| Eastern Turkey
| Geophysic: earthquake | At least 57 killed
| 3 March 2010
| Bududa, Uganda
| Climatic: landslide | More than 300 killed | 28 February 2010
| Western Europe
| Climatic: Storm
| 50 killed | 27 February 2010
| Chile
| Geophysic: earthquake | More than 700 killed | 23 February 2010
| West Java, Indonesia
| Climatic: landslide | Up to 70 killed
| 21 February 2010
| Madeira, Portugal
| Climatic: flood | More than 42 killed | 13 February 2010
| Jakarta and Bogor, Indonesia
| Climatic: flood | At least 2 killed | 10 February 2010
| Salang pass, Afghanistan
| Climatic: avalanche | At least 166 killed | 8 February 2010
| Kashmir, India
| Climatic: avalanche
| 17 killed
| 25 January 2010
| Lampung, Indonesia | Climatic: flood | 5 killed
| 24 January 2010
| Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
| Climatic: flood | 10 killed | 12 January 2010
| Haiti
| Geophysic: earthquake | Around 230,000 killed | 9 January 2010
| Pasuruan, Indonesia | Climatic: flood | 3 killed
| | 5 January 2010 | Pakistan
| Climatic: landslide | At least 10 killed | 2 January 2010
| Ilha Grande, Brazil | Climatic: mudslide | 26 killed
| | | | | | | 2009 | | | | 31 December 2009
| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Climatic: storm,landslide | At least 19 killed
| | 25 December 2009 | Midwest US
| Climatic: snow storm | At least 19 killed | | 21 December 2009 | Europe
| Climatic: snow storm | More than 80 killed | | 20 December 2009 | Eastern US
| Climatic: snow storm | At least 6 killed | | 15 December 2009 | Fiji
| Climatic: cyclone | At least 3 killed | 9 November 2009
| El Salvador
| Climatic: hurricane,flood | 275 killed | 4 November 2009
| Vietnam | Climatic: storm,flood | At least 90 killed | 7 October 2009
| Western Nepal | Climatic: flood, landslide | At least 45 killed | 3 October 2009
| Northern Philippines
| Climatic: typhoon,flood | At least 600 killed | 2 October 2009
| South India | Climatic: flood | More than 300 killed | 30 September 2009
| Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia
| Geophysic: earthquake | 1195 killed
| | 30 September 2009 | Cambodia
| Climatic: typhoon,flood | At least 9 killed | 29 September 2009
| Samoa, surrounding islands
| Geophysic: earthquakes, tsunami
| More than 170 killed | 29 September 2009
| Vietnam
| Climatic: typhoon,flood | At least 85 killed | 26 September 2009
| Manila & nearby provinces, Philippines
| Climatic: typhoon,flood | At least 300 killed | | 22 September 2009 | South-eastern US, Georgia | Climatic: flood
| At least 8 killed
| 21 September 2009
| Bhutan, Himalayan regions
| Geophysic: earthquakes | At least 11 killed | 15 September 2009
| North Sumatra, Indonesia
| Climatic: flood | At least 38 killed | 9 September 2009
| Northwest Turkey | Climatic: flood | At least 31 killed
| | 8 September 2009 | North Argentina, South Brazil | Climatic: storm | At least 17 killed | 2 September 2009
| West Java, Indonesia
| Geophysic: earthquakes | At least 57 killed
| 10 August 2009
| Western Japan
| Climatic: storm | At least 15 killed | 9 August 2009
| Southeast China
| Climatic: typhoon | At least 8 killed | 9 August 2009
| Taiwan
| Climatic: typhoon | At least 571 killed | 7 August 2009
| Philippines
| Climatic: typhoon | At least 23 killed
| July 2009
| India
| Climatic: flood | 992 killed
| 24 June 2009
| Southern Europe
| Climatic: wildfires | At least 10 killed
| May 2009
| Peru
| Climatic: extreme temperature | 274 killed
| 28 May 2009
| Honduras | Geophysic: earthquakes | 6 killed
| 26 May 2009
| Bangladesh, West Bengal
| Climatic: cyclone | More than 200 killed
| 6 May 2009
| Northern Brazil
| Climatic: flood | At least 39 killed | 7 April 2009
| Namibia, South Africa
| Climatic: flood | More than 100 killed | 6 April 2009
| Central Italy
| Geophysic: earthquake | 300 killed | 31 March 2009
| Orissa, East India
| Climatic: storm | At least 12 killed | 11 February
| Oklahoma, USA | Climatic: tornado | At least 8 killed | 9 February
| Victoria, Australia
| Climatic: bush fires | Approx. 173 killed | 24 January 2009
| France and Spain | Climatic: storm | 20 killed | | 12 January 2009 | Sulawesi, Indonesia | Climatic: flood | 8 killed | 9 January 2009
| Costa Rica
| Geophysic: earthquakes | 2 killed | 4 January 2009
| Manokwari, Indonesia | Geophysic: earthquake | 4 killed
| | | | | | | 2008 | | | | | 23 November 2008 | Colombia
| Geophysic: volcano | 10 killed
| | 17 November 2008 | Brisbane, Australia | Climatic: storm
| 1 killed
| | 5 November 2008 | South-western China | Climatic: flood | At least 51 killed | | 2 November 2008 | North and central Vietnam | Climatic: flood | At least 92 killed | 29 October 2008
| South-western Pakistan | Geophysic: earthquakes | At least 300 killed | | 28 October 2008 | Honduras | Climatic: floods | 30 killed | | 26 October 2008 | Yemen
| Climatic: floods | 58 killed
| | 22 October 2008 | Sri Lanka | Climatic: floods | 4 killed
| | 6 October 2008 | Tibet
| Geophysic: earthquakes | At least 30 killed
| | 6 October 2008 | Kyrgyzstan | Geophysic: earthquakes | At least 65 killed | | 2 October 2008 | Algeria
| Climatic: floods | At least 29 killed | | 23 September 2008 | Philippines | Climatic: typhoon | 8 killed | | 19 September 2008 | Orissa, India
| Climatic: flood | 56 killed | | 15 September 2008 | Texas, Louisiana, USA | Climatic: hurricane Ike | At least 27 killed | | 10 September 2008 | Cuba | Climatic: hurricane Ike | 200,000 homeless | 4 September 2008
| Haiti | Climatic: storms | 793 killed
| | 31 August 2008 | South-west China | Geophysic: earthquakes | At least 32 killed | 25 August 2008
| Bihar, India
| Climatic: flood | More than 90 killed | | 10 August 2008 | Southern India | Climatic: flood | At least 40 killed | | 9 August 2008 | Northern Vietnam | Climatic: flood | 100 killed
| | 5 August 2008 | North-west Pakistan | Climatic: flood | 30 killed | | 1 August 2008 | Togo
| Climatic: flood | At least 3 killed | | 18 July 2008 | Taiwan
| Climatic: typhoon | 16 killed | 21 June 2008
| Philippines | Climatic: typhoon
| 163 killed | | 16 June 2008 | North-eastern India | Climatic: flood
| More than 50 killed two million homeless
| 16 June 2008
| Mogadishu, Somalia | Climatic: flood | At least 6 killed | | 15 June 2008 | Southern China
| Climatic: flood | 63 killed
| | 14 June 2008 | Northern Japan | Geophysic: earthquakes | 9 killed | | 9 June 2008 | Midwest USA
| Climatic: storm, flood
| 24 killed
| | 2 June 2008 | South Sri Lanka
| Climatic: flood | 19 killed
| | 12 May 2008 | Sichuan, China
| Geophysic: earthquakes | Up to 87,000 killed | | 10 May 2008 | South-central, USA | Climatic: storm | At least 22 killed | 4 May 2008
| Burma | Climatic: cyclone Nargis
| 138,000 killed | | 3 May 2008 | Arkansas, USA
| Climatic: storm | At least 8 killed | | 30 April 2008 | Sri Lanka
| Climatic: flood | 9 killed
| | 29 April 2008 | Virginia, USA
| Climatic: tornado | 200 injured
| | 22 February 2008 | Eastern Philippines | Climatic: landslide, flood | 32 killed | | 20 February 2008 | Western Aceh, Indonesia | Geophysic: earthquakes | At least 3 killed | | 18 February 2008 | Madagascar
| Climatic: tropical storm | At least 2 killed | 6 February 2008
| Bolivia | Climatic: flood
| At least 48 killed | | 6 February 2008 | Southern USA
| Climatic: tornadoes | 55 killed | 3 February 2008
| Congo, Rwanda
| Geophysic: earthquakes | At least 40 killed | | 31 January 2008 | Fiji
| Climatic: cyclone | 2 killed | | 19 January 2008 | China
| Climatic: snow storm | At least 80 killed | 2 January 2008
| East Java, Indonesia | Climatic: flood | 112 killed | | | | | | 2007
| | | | | 26 December 2007 | Central Java, Indonesia | Climatic: flood | At least 120 killed | | 11 December 2007 | The Caribbean | Climatic: storm Olga | 38 killed | 10 December 2007
| USA, Canada | Climatic: ice storm | 22 killed
| | 5 December 2007 | USA North West
| Climatic: storm | At least 7 killed | | 26 November 2007 | Eastern Indonesia | Geophysic: earthquakes | 3 killed | 23 November 2007
| Philippines
| Climatic: typhoon Mitag
| At least 12 killed | | 19 November 2007 | Papua New Guinea | Climatic: flood | At least 150 killed | | 15 November 2007 | Bangladesh
| Climatic: cyclon | Around 3,000 killed | | 7 November 2007 | Vietnam | Climatic: flood
| More than 70 killed
| 1 November 2007
| Tabasco, Mexico | Climatic: flood | 5 killed a half million homeless
| | 29 October 2007 | Dominican Republic, The Bahamas | Climatic: flood, storm Noel | 116 killed | | 27 October 2007 | DR Congo
| Climatic: flood
| 30 killed 100 injured
| | 24 October 2007 | California, USA
| Climatic: fires | 7 killed 1,997 homes destroyed | | 13 October 2007 | Haiti
| Climatic: flood | 20 killed | | 6 October 2007 | Eastern China | Climatic: typhoon Krosa | 5 killed 5 million affected | | 4 October 2007 | Vietnam
| Climatic: typhoon Lekima | 55 killed | | 19 September 2007 | Eastern China
| Climatic: typhoon Wipha
| 5 killed 10,000 homes destroyed | | 15 September 2007 | West, Central & East Africa | Climatic: flood | 387 killed 1.5 million affected | 12 & 13 September 2007 | Sumatra, Indonesia | Geophysic: earthquakes | 23 killed | | 10 September 2007 | Assam, India | Climatic: flood | 7 killed 1 million displaced
| | 4 September 2007 | Central America
| Climatic: hurricane Felix | 98 killed | | 29 August 2007 | Sudan
| Climatic: flood | 89 killed 400,000 affected | | 29 August 2007 | Assam, India
| Climatic: flood | 5 killed
| | 26 August 2007 | Greece
| Climatic: Fires | 64 killed | | 22 August 2007 | USA Midwest
| Climatic: flood | 25 killed | 17 August 2007
| Caribbean
| Climatic: hurricane Dean
| 20 killed | | 15 August 2007 | Peru
| Geophysic: earthquakes | 610 killed
| | 14 August 2007 | North Korea
| Climatic: flood | 600 killed | | 9 August 2007 | Sakhalin, Russia
| Geophysic: earthquakes | 2,400 homeless
| | 7 August 2007 | Bulgaria
| Climatic: flood | 7 killed | 6 August 2007
| Vietnam | Climatic: flood | 40 killed
| | 30 July 2007 | South Asia: India, Nepal Bangladesh | Climatic: flood | 1,100 killed | | 23 July 2007 | Sulawesi, Indonesia | Climatic: flood | 71 killed | | 22 July 2007 | China | Climatic: flood | 650 killed | | 19 July 2007 | Sudan
| Climatic: flood | 113 killed | | 16 July 2007 | Japan
| Geophysic: earthquakes | 7 killed 400 hurt
| | 29 June 2007 | Pakistan | Climatic: cyclon Yemyin | 240 killed 1 million homeless
| | 25 June 2007 | UK
| Climatic: flood | 6 killed 3500 evacuated | | 24 June 2007 | Pakistan
| Climatic: flood | 228 killed 800,000 affected | | 24 June 2007 | India
| Climatic: flood | 67 killed | | 23 June 2007 | Sri Lanka
| Climatic: strong winds
| 5 killed | | 12 June 2007 | Pakistan | Climatic: heatwave | 26 killed | 12 June 2007
| Bangladesh
| Climatic: mudslides | 22 killed | | 10 June 2007 | China | Climatic: floods | 71 killed 640,000 displaced | | 3 June 2007 | China | Geophysic: earthquakes | 3 killed 300 injured
| | June 2007 | Colombia
| Climatic: floods | 56 killed 270,000 affected
| | 25 May 2007 | China
| Climatic: floods | 21 killed
| | 4 May 2007 | USA | Climatic: tornado | 11 killed | | 3 May 2007 | Sri Lanka
| Climatic: floods | 9 killed 14,881 families affected | | 16 April 2007 | USA | Climatic: storms | 8 killed | | 15 April 2007 | Thailand
| Climatic: floods | 35 killed | | 3 April 2007 | Afghanistan | Climatic: floods | 88 killed 20,000 affected
| 2 April 2007
| Solomon Island
| Geophysic: Tsunami Earthquake | 28 killed 7,000 homeless | | 29 March 2007 | USA
| Climatic: tornadoes | 4 killed
| | 27 March 2007 | Haiti, Dominican Rep.
| Climatic: floods | 11 killed | | 25 March 2007 | Wajima, Japan
| Geophysic: earthquakes | 1 killed 200 injured | | 12 March 2007 | Fiji | Climatic: floods | 5 killed
| | 7 March 2007 | Lorestan, West Iran
| Geophysic: earthquakes | 35 injured
| 6 March 2007
| West Sumatra, Indonesia
| Geophysic: earthquakes | 70 killed 3,000 homeless
| | 3 March 2007 | East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia | Climatic: floods landslides
| 43 killed 25 missing 5,000 homeless
| | 2 March 2007 | Alabama, USA | Climatic: tornadoes | 20 killed | | 20 February 2007 | Bolivia | Climatic: floods | 40 killed 350,000 affected | | 8 February 2007 | Mozambique | Climatic: floods | 120,000 evacuated
| | 6 February 2007 | Burundi
| Climatic: floods
| | | 2 February 2007 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Climatic: floods | 58 killed 340,000 homeless | 25 January 2007
| Angola
| Climatic: floods
| 70 killed
| | 24 January 2007 | Peru
| Climatic: floods
| 16 killed
| | 14 January 2007 | Malaysia
| Climatic: floods
| 17 killed 100,000 evacuated
| 13 January 2007
| Sri Lanka
| Climatic: floods, landslides
| 17 killed 18,000 displaced
| | | | | | 2006
| | | | | 22 December 2006 | Aceh, Indonesia | Climatic: floods | 193 killed 400,000 displaced
| | 22 December 2006 | Malaysia
| Climatic: floods | 11 killed 90,000 displaced | | 22 December 2006 | Sri Lanka
| Geophysic: landslides | 521 families displaced
| | 18 December 2006 | North Sumatra, Indonesia | Geophysic: earthquakes
| 7 killed 150 injured
| | 11 August 2006 | China
| Climatic: typhoon
| 295 killed
| 8 August 2006
| India
| Climatic: floods
| 187 killed 750,000 homeless
| | 17 July 2006 | Pangandaran, Indonesia
| Geophysic: Wave/Surge Tsunami Earthquake
| 650 killed
| | 29 May 2006 | East Java, Indonesia | Geophysic: Hot toxic mud
| 11,000 evacuated | | 27 May 2006 | Yogyakarta, Indonesia
| Geophysic: earthquakes | 5,800 killed 200,000 homeless
| 1 April 2006
| Western Iran
| Geophysic: earthquakes | 70 killed
| | | | | | | 2005 | | | | 26 July 2005
| Mumbai, India
| Climatic: floods
| 500 killed
| | | | | | | 2004 | | | | October 2004
| Niigata, Japan
| Geophysic: earthquakes | 65 killed 3,000 injured
| | | | | | 1995
| | | | January 1995
| Kobe, Japan | Geophysic: earthquakes | 6,400 killed
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Recent major climate-related disasters* | Date | Country | Disaster type
| Victims and damages
| | February 2006 | Philippines | Landslide | 1,112 killed, 19 injured 3,272 affected US$2,203,000 damage | | October 2005 | Guatemala | Wind Storm: Hurricane Stan | 1,513 killed, 386 injured 474,928 affected US$988,300,000 damage | | August/Sept 2005 | United States | Wind Storm: Hurricane Katrina | 1,322 killed 500,000 affected US$125,000,000,000 damage | | July/August 2005 | India | Flood | 1,200 killed, 55 injured 20,000,000 affected US$3,330,000,000 damage | | July 2005 | Cuba | Wind Storm: Hurricane Dennis | 16 killed 2,500,000 affected US$1,400,000,000 damage | | July 2005 | Bangladesh | Flood | 23 killed 1,000,000 affected | | July 2005 | Niger | Drought | 3,600,000 affected | | February 2005 | Pakistan | Flood | 520 killed, 450 injured 7,000,000 affected | | January/Dec 2005 | Kenya | Drought | 27 killed 3,500,000 affected | | November 2004 | Philippines | Wind Storm: Tropical storm Winnie | 1,619 killed, 1,023 injured 880,000 affected US$78,200,000 damage | | June/August 2004 | Bangladesh, India | Flood, Flash Flood | 1,630 killed 69,000,000 affected US$2,420,000,000 damage | June/July 2004
| Kenya | Drought
| 2,300,000 affected | | January 2004 | South Africa | Drought | 4,000,000 affected |
Recent major geophysical disasters* Date
| Country
| Disaster type | Victims and damages
| | October 2005 | Pakistan | Earthquake | 73,338 killed, 69,142 injured 2,800,000 homeless US$5,000,000,000 damage | | 26 December 2004 | Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Maldives, other countries
| Wave/Surge Tsunami Earthquake | 223,492 killed 400,000 homeless US$10,000,000,000 damage | | February 2005 | Iran | Earthquake | 612 killed, 1,411 injured 93,355 affected US$80,000,000 damage | February 2004
| Morocco | Earthquake | 628 killed, 926 injured 12,539 homeless US$400,000,000 damage | | December 2003 | Iran | Earthquake | 26,796 killed, 22,628 injured 45,000 homeless 200,000 affected US$1,000,000,000 damage |
*Source: EM-DAT, CRED, University of Louvain, Belgium. Emergency Disasters Data Base website. http://www.em-dat.net/ [Accessed 05 May 2006] Only registered users can write comments. Please login or register. Powered by AkoComment! |