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Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the ...
Year Details Countries Fatalities Causes 120 BCE: Cymbrian flood: Denmark, Norway: probably many thousands: Storm tide 589: Breach at Cucca: Italy: 1170: All Saints' Flood (1170)
The deadliest weather events since 2004 caused more than 570,000 deaths and the ‘fingerprints’ of climate change were present, scientists say. ... heatwave which killed 70,000 people in Europe ...
Central Europe: 1342 several thousands [citation needed] All Saints flood, storm surge Holy Roman Empire: 1532 several thousands [citation needed] North Sea flood, storm surge Netherlands: 1703 2,000–10,000 Great Iran Flood: Iran: 1954 2,000–5,000 1: Morvi dam burst: India (Morvi, Gujarat) 1979 2,000–3,000 [citation needed] Mostaganem and ...
The WMO announced, for the first time, world records for the highest reported historical death tolls from cyclones, tornadoes, lightning and hailstorms.
The national weather service AEMET had raised its threat level for heavy rains to a red alert at 7.36am on Oct 29, following heavy rains in mountainous areas west of the city of Valencia from the ...
This derecho was important in developing the understanding of what a derecho is. It was captured on radar and studied by Dr. Fujita in his efforts to better identify and formalize weather events. [4] It revealed a well-defined bow shaped echo with edge vortices and was extremely long lived compared to a tornado.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll.It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture, planning, construction, design, and more.