Wednesday, January 20, 2010

A timeline of recent major natural disasters, past decade+

I thought I'd compile a list of large natural disasters (in terms of deaths) in recent times (past 12 years), just to look at the frequency of these large-scale disasters. The greater the number of deaths, the larger the font, to indicate some scale.

2010 - Port au Prince, Haiti earthquake (100,000+/- dead)

2009 - Sumatra, Indonesia earthquake (1100 dead)
2008 - Myanmar cyclone Nargis (146,000 dead)
2008 - Sichuan, China earthquake (69,000 dead)
2006 - Java, Indonesia earthquake (6200 dead)
2005 - Kashmir, Pakistan (86,000 dead)
2005 - Central America Hurricane Stan (2000 dead)
2005 - US Hurricane Katrina (1800 dead)

2004 - Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand earthquake/tsunami (230,000 dead)
2004 - Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Florida Hurricane Jeanne (3000 dead)
2003 - Bam, Iran earthquake (30,000 dead)
2003 - Boumerdes, Algeria earthquake (2200 dead)
2001 - Gujarat, India earthquake (20,000 dead)
1999 - Venezuela flood / mudslide (15,000 dead)
1999 - Izmit, Turkey earthquake (17,000 dead)
1998 - Central America / US hurricane Mitch (18,000 dead)

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