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Wildfires - Australia
Volcanic eruption - Congo
Torrential rainfall and flood - Indonesia
Earthquake - Turkey
Torrential rains and ensuing flood -
Ecuador
Earthquake - Afghanistan (March 3rd)
Earthquake - Afghanistan March 25th)
Earthquake - Taiwan
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Catastrophe Report 1
January 1 – March 31, 2002 - Bill McGuire |
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Thirty-three natural disasters are recorded for the first
three months of 2002, of which just over half were floods.
Over a third of a million people were made homeless by flood
waters on the Indonesia island of Java, and serious floods
and landslides also struck Ecuador, Brazil, New Zealand, Russia,
Iran, Malawi, Peru, eastern Australia, and the southern United
States. The remainder includes six damaging earthquakes, of
which those that struck Turkey and Afghanistan were most serious,
and wildfires in eastern Australia, New Mexico and southern
California. Severe winter storms struck the US north west
and caused at least US$48 million of economic losses in the
mid-west, and the UK. Cold damaged coffee crops in Mexico
and took over 200 lives in Poland. Hailstones – some
as large as coconuts – damaged over 5,000 homes in Thailand,
while Mongolian blizzards killed over 800,000 head of cattle.
Notable events are summarised in more detail here.
This report was first published in Catastrophe Risk Management
in Spring 2002.
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Bushfires rage across New South Wales in December 2001. Image
credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team. |
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