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Annual economic loss from natural disasters

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http://forum.maplecroft.com/showpage?section=cartograms&topic=maplecroft_cartograms

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Annual economic loss from natural disasters

 

The annual economic loss from natural disasters. So we can see that USA, EEA, China and Japan are the most economically impacted. 

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Damage after tsunami in Japan, March 12/2011

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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html

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Damage after tsunami in Japan, March 12/2011

The damage caused by the tsunami in Japan in March 2011. It’s very impressive the number of destroyed buildings. And how powerful a tsunami can be. Around 16,000 people got killed and more than 110,000 buildings got totally destroyed.  

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Top 10 Natural disasters in 2009

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http://feww.wordpress.com/category/unisdr/

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Top 10 Natural disasters in 2009

 

The ten deadliest disasters are almost all located in developing country whereas USA only appears in top 10 in number of event. There are a high number of disasters in the USA, however compared to the other countries in the list, the loss is less. For example Indonesia, which had less disaster in 2009 than the USA, however, more people had been killed during these event, then in the USA. 

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Number of people killed, injured, homeless and otherwise affected by natural disasters between 1980-2005

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http://forum.maplecroft.com/showpage?section=cartograms&topic=maplecroft_cartograms

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Number of people killed, injured, homeless and otherwise affected by natural disasters between 1980-2005

the most impacted population are in India, China and Africa. It’s because of the infrastructure and prevention are less developed than USA or EEA. Asia is vusialised as such a big part also because of the high population density. 

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World map of natural catastrophes for 2010

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http://reliefweb.int/map/chad/world-map-natural-catastrophes-2010

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World map of natural catastrophes for 2010

Repartition of all the natural disasters in the world in 2010.  You can see that there is quite a high number of blue and green dots, which means hydrological as well as meteorological events. Quite a high percentage is concentrated in the eastern part of the United States. As well as in South-East Asia occur a high number of these disasters. 

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Evolution of Floods

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http://www.monstersandcritics.com/tech/news/article_5630.php/Humans_Rapidly_Degrading_Earth_s_Ecosystem

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Evolution of Floods

There are more and more floods every decades. The increase of floods could also be caused by the increase of the sea level due to climate change

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Total number killed, injured, homeless and affected by geological disasters

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http://forum.maplecroft.com/showpage?section=cartograms&topic=maplecroft_cartograms

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Total number killed, injured, homeless and affected by geological disasters

 

map of people impacted by geological disasters such as earthquakes. The most country affected are Japan, India, Africa, South America, Middle East. This also relates to the previous images, which shows along these countries the strongest seismic activities.

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