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
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States, donors must do more to tackle rising disaster risk: U.N.
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As economic losses from disasters rise around the world, more effort is needed to reduce the risks from extreme weather and earthquakes in every area, from infrastructure
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Nearly 75% of people in Japan live in areas at risk of disaster
About seven out of every 10 people live in areas in Japan that are at risk of disasters such as floods, landslides, earthquakes, ground liquefaction or tsunami, government data show. Those who live
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U.N. disaster conference scheduled for Sendai in March
Tens of thousands of civil servants and representatives of nongovernmental organizations are to meet in the Tohoku region this spring to examine global approaches to disaster response. The U.N. World
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Karachi's defensive mangrove barrier faces triple threat
Thick mangroves have long protected Karachi, southern Pakistan's sprawling metropolis, from battering by the Arabian Sea, but pollution, badly managed irrigation and years of illegal logging have left
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10 years later, tsunami rehabilitation still remains incomplete
Even a decade after the tsunami left a trail of destruction along its coast, the rehabilitation of the affected in Ernakulam is yet to be completed. Official statistics pegged the total loss in the devastating
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2004 tsunami – 10 years of recovery in photos
<p>Triggered by severe earthquakes off the northwest tip of Indonesia, early on Sunday 26 December 2004, a tsunami brought catastrophe to South-East Asia.</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.searo.who.int/entity/emergencies/10-years-recovery-from-the-2004-tsunami/2004-tsunami-photostory-1.png"
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Migration stripping Pacific Islands of climate change know-how
Many small Pacific Island states on the frontline of sea level rise and disaster threats are facing a shortage of the scientists, skilled professionals and technical experts they need to put in place effective
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Chennai beached by garbage, debris
CHENNAI: A month from today will mark a decade since the tsunami devastated the country's eastern shoreline, including the city's coast, and vast parts of South Asia, killing more than 2,30,000 people.
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Magnitude 6.8 quake hits off Indonesia, no tsunami warning
Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck in the sea 160 km (100 miles) northwest of Ternate in Indonesia's Moluccas archipelago at 0933 ET on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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M5.3 quake hits off Fukushima, jolts Kanto; no tsunami alert issued
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck in the sea off Fukushima Prefecture at 10:51 a.m. Thursday, but no tsunami alert was issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The agency said the epicenter