Natural disasters in 2009
In 2009, 328 natural disasters were
recorded in the EM-DAT database. They killed more than 10 thousand people,
affected nearly 113 million others and caused almost 35 billion US$ of
economic damages.
No mega-disasters occurred in 2009,
the event ranking highest in death toll being the earthquake in Indonesia
on September 30 which killed over 1,100 people, followed by a series of
typhoons and floods that caused many deaths, making Asia once again the
most affected continent. In fact, six of the top ten countries with the