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Flood - New Zealand

Earthquake - Morocco

Freight Train Explosion - North Korea

Flood - Haiti

Hailstorm - USA

Flood - Japan

Flood - India

Other events
Catastrophe Report 5
February 21 - July 21, 2004


Other notable and unusual events (selected)

Date

 Country/region Event Fatalities Economic losses (mil US$)

Insured losses
( mil US$)

19 July

Vietnam (Ha Giang province)

Flash flood

30

8.3

  

13 – 14 July

Afghanistan (northern provinces and central highlands)

Floods and landslides

12

    

Mid-July

Peru (central and southern High Andes)

Cold wave and blizzards

46

    

3 – 4 July

Taiwan (central and eastern)

Tropical cyclone

23

>150

  

2 July

Eastern Turkey

Earthquake

18

    

Mid-June to mid-July

Nicaragua

Landslides and mudslides

25

    

June-July

China (Yangtze, Yellow and Huai rivers)

Floods

381

1,600

  

28 May

Iran (Mazandaran provice)

Earthquake

35

    

23 May

France (Paris)

Airport terminal collapse

4

    

19 May

Myanmar (Rhakhine state)

Tropical cyclone

236

0.69

  

March-July

Colombia (northern)

Floods, landslides and mudslides

21

    

Mid-April

Russia (Siberia and South Urals)

Floods

10

    

14/18 April

NE Bangladesh

Tornadoes

55

    

25/28 March

Eastern Turkey

Earthquakes

18

    

11 March

Spain (Madrid)

Terrorist bombs on trains

192