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Strictly under embargo until Wednesday 22 September at 00:01 GMT (02:01 Geneva time)174ANNEX 1Table 9 Total number of reported disasters, by type of phenomenon, by continent and by level of human development 1(2000 to 2009)Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania VHHD HHD MHD LHD TotalDroughts / food insecurity 126 57 73 15 2 15 29 154 75 273Earthquakes / tsunamis 24 43 173 39 11 38 55 177 20 290Extreme temperatures 5 40 60 130 2 72 91 70 4 237Floods 2 421 356 655 259 48 236 372 870 261 1,739Forest / scrub fires 13 53 14 52 10 77 37 23 5 142Insect infestation 12 1 1 1 2 2 2 6 7 17Mass movement: dry 3 1 3 3 n.d.r. 1 n.d.r. 2 6 n.d.r. 8Mass movement: wet 4 13 38 122 14 6 8 40 137 8 193Volcanic eruptions 7 23 19 1 11 4 18 35 4 61Windstorms 94 329 416 150 65 366 159 489 40 1,054Subtotal climato-, hydro- &meteorological disastersSubtotal geophysicaldisasters684 874 1,341 621 135 776 730 1,749 400 3,65532 69 195 40 23 42 75 218 24 359Total natural disasters 716 943 1,536 661 158 818 805 1,967 424 4,014Industrial accidents 68 23 414 52 n.d.r. 22 51 454 30 557Miscellaneous accidents 114 66 212 72 2 56 91 283 36 466Transport accidents 884 302 741 211 9 169 342 1,369 267 2,147Total technologicaldisasters1,066 391 1,367 335 11 247 484 2,106 333 3,170Total 1,782 1,334 2,903 996 169 1,065 1,289 4,073 757 7,184Source: EM-DAT, CRED, University of Louvain, Belgium
Strictly under embargo until Wednesday 22 September at 00:01 GMT (02:01 Geneva time)1VHHD stands for very high human development, HHD stands for high humandevelopment, MHD for medium human development and LHD for low humandevelopment.See note on UNDP’s Human Development Index country status in the section ondisaster definitions in the introduction to this annex.2Includes waves and surges.3Landslides, rockfalls, subsidence of geophysical origin.4Landslides, avalanches, subsidence of hydrological origin.Note: ’n.a.’ signifies ’no data available’; ’n.d.r.’ signifies ’no disaster reported’.For more information, see section on caveats in introductory text.During the decade:Asia accounted for 40 per cent of the total number of disasters but for 74 percent of industrial accidents, 63 per cent of mass movements of hydrologicalorigin, 60 per cent of earthquakes / tsunamis and 45 per cent of miscellaneousaccidents.Africa accounted for 25 per cent of the total number of disasters but for 71 percent of insect infestations, 46 per cent of droughts / food insecurity events and41 per cent of transport accidents.Americas accounted for 19 per cent of the total number of disasters but for38 per cent of volcanic eruptions 37 per cent of wild fires and 31 per centof windstorms.Europe accounted for 14 per cent of the total number of disasters but for 55 percent of extreme temperatures and for 37 per cent of wild fires.Oceania accounted for 2 per cent of the total number of disasters but for 18 percent of volcanic eruptions, 7 per cent of wild fires and 6 per cent of windstorms.ANNEX 1World Disasters Report 2010 – Disaster data175
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