Disasters – from earthquakes and storms to floods and droughts – kill approximately 40,000 to 50,000 people per year. This is the average over the last few decades. While that’s a relatively small fraction of all deaths globally, disasters can have …

A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes, etc.

2024年4月11日 · EM-DAT contains data on the occurrence and impacts of mass disasters worldwide from 1900 to the present day. EM-DAT data includes all categories classified as "natural disasters" (distinguished from technological …

6 小时之前 · This makes natural disasters more destructive, such as the New Year's Day 2024 earthquake in the rural Ishikawa Prefecture, which destroyed more than 83,000 homes.

GDACS is a cooperation framework between the United Nations, the European Commission and disaster managers worldwide to improve alerts, information exchange and coordination in the first phase after major sudden-onset disasters.

2024年12月27日 · Natural disasters wreaked havoc on the world and took many lives in 2024. Scientists say climate change continues to make phenomena like these even more deadly and damaging. Beyond the deaths...

2023年3月24日 · Here are 13 of some of the largest, deadly and costly natural disasters throughout modern history. Floating wreckage near Texas City after the Galveston disaster. (Image credit: Underwood &...

2018年12月31日 · The Geocoded Disasters (GDIS) Dataset is a geocoded extension of a selection of natural disasters from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters' (CRED) Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT). The data set encompasses 39,953 locations for 9,924 disasters that occurred worldwide in the years 1960 to 2018.

2024年10月14日 · Disaster losses throughout the year read an affected population of over 95 million, death and missing toll of 691 people, an evacuated population of 3.343 million; collapsed housing of 209,000 ...

Welcome to Disaster Tracker, a live, lightweight resource for scientifically verified global events. This Application will be updated as events happen, sometimes hours after they occur.