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<br />Selected* Natural Disasters of This Century
<br /> Approximate
<br />Year Event Location Death Toll
<br />1900 Hurricane USA 6,000
<br />1902 Volcanic Eruption Martinique 29,000
<br />1902 Volcanic Eruption Guatemala 6,000
<br />1906 Typhoon Hong Kong 10,000
<br />1906 Earthquake Taiwan 6,000
<br />1906 EarthquakelFire USA 1,500
<br />1908 Earthquake Italy 75,000
<br />1911 Volcanic Eruption Philippines 1,300
<br />1915 Earthquake Italy 30,000
<br />1916 Landslide Italy, Austria 10,000
<br />1919 Volcanic Eruption Indonesia 5,200
<br />1920 EarthquakeiLandslide China 200,000
<br />1923 Earthquake/Fire japan 143,000
<br />1928 HurricanelFlood USA 2,000
<br />1930 Volcanic Eruption Indonesia 1,400
<br />1932 Earthquake China 70,000
<br />1933 Tsunami japan 3,000
<br />1935 Earthquake India 60,000
<br />1938 Hurricane USA 600
<br />1939 EarrhquaketTsunami Chile 30,000
<br />1945 Floods/Landslides japan 1,200
<br />1946 Tsunami japan 1,400
<br />1948 Earthquake USSR 100,000
<br />1949 Floods China 57,000
<br />1949 Earthquake/Landslide USSR 12,000-20,000
<br />1951 Volcanic Eruption Papua New Guinea 2,900
<br />1953 Floods North Sea coast (Europe) 1,800
<br />1954 Landslide Austria 200
<br />1954 Floods China 40,000
<br />1959 Typhoon japan 4,600
<br />1960 Earthquake Morocco 12,000
<br />1961 Typhoon Hong Kong 400
<br />1962 Landslide Peru 4,000-5,000
<br />1962 Earthquake Iran 12,000
<br />1963 Tropical Cyclone Bangladesh 22,000
<br />1963 Volcanic Eruption Indonesia 1,200
<br />1963 Landslide Italy 2,000
<br />1965 Tropical Cyclone Bangladesh 17,000
<br />1965 Tropical Cyclone Bangladesh 30,000
<br />1965 Ttopical Cyclone Bangladesh 10,000
<br />1968 Earthquake Iran 12,000
<br />1970 Earthquake/Landslide Peru 70,000
<br />1970 Tropical Cyclone Bangladesh 300,000-500,000
<br />1971 Tropical Cyclone India 10,000-25,000
<br />1976 Earthquake China 250,000
<br />1976 Earthquake Guatemala 24,000
<br />1976 Earthquake Italy 900
<br />1977 Tropical Cyclone India 20,000
<br />1978 Earthquake Iran 25,000
<br />1982 Volcanic Eruption Mexico 1,700
<br />1985 Tropical Cyclone Bangladesh 10,000
<br />1985 Earthquake Mexico 10 ,000
<br />1985 Volcanic Eruption Colombia 22,000
<br />1987 Wildfire China 200
<br />... Disasters selected to represent global vulnerability to rapid-onset natural disasters.
<br />SOURCES: Compiled from (a) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (1987); (b) National
<br />Geographic Society (1986); (c) K. Toki, Disaster Pre\'ention Research Institute Uapan), personal
<br />communication (1987); (d) R.L. Schuster, U.S. Geological Survey, personal communication
<br />(1987); (e) C. Newhall, U.S. Geological Survey, personal communication (1987).
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