2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
Natural Disasters
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Flood Fury: Are Landslides in Kerala a Man-Made Disaster?
The death toll in the Kerala floods increased to 88 on Tuesday with an "extremely heavy rain" warning issued for three districts, even as the weather in deluge-hit Karnataka and Gujarat improved, allowing
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Are we in the middle of a climate crisis?
Over the last month, at least 200 people across 5 states have lost their lives due to excessive rainfall causing floods. Just in the course of 2019, we've seen a deadly heatwave in North and Central India,
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The North Bihar earthquake of the 15th January, 1934
On Monday the 15th January 1934 Calcutta experienced an earthquake shock of fair intensity which lasted for over three minutes. News from the country was available only next morning, showing that Patna,