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CRED Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 72 (September 2023) Earthquakes in Türkiye: A review from 1900 to today
Türkiye, situated on the highly active MediterraneanAlpine-Himalayan seismic belt (Box 1), is susceptible to frequent powerful earthquakes. This newsletter presents an overview of earthquake data and...
CRED Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 71 (July 2023) - Special Edition, Happy Birthday, CRED
Celebrating 50 Years of Disaster Epidemiological Research, Data Collection, and International Cooperation The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Centre of Research on the Epidemiology of...
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CRED Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 70 (April 2023) - Disasters Year in Review 2022
Climate in action 387 Reported disasters 30,704 Deaths 185 million People affected 223.8 billion US$ economic damage In 2022, the Emergency Event Database EM-DAT recorded 387 natural hazards and...
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2022 Disasters in numbers
Executive Summary In 2022, the Emergency Event Database EM-DAT recorded 387 natural hazards and disasters worldwide, resulting in the loss of 30,704 lives and affecting 185 million individuals...
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CRED Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 69 (December 2022) - The interplay of drought-flood extreme events in Africa over the last twenty years (2002-2021)
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and magnitude of hydro-climatic extremes events, such as floods and droughts, impacting economies, livelihoods, and the environment, particularly...
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Cred Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 68 (September 2022) - Natural Hazards & Disasters An overview of the first half of 2022
While facing the day-to-day news stream, the most recent tragic events, such as heat waves, droughts, forest fires, and monsoon floods last July and August, tend to supersede the recollection of...
Cred Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 66 (April 2022) - Disasters1 Year in Review 2021
In 2021, the Emergency Event Database (EM-DAT) recorded 432 disastrous events related to natural hazards worldwide. Overall, these accounted for 10,492 deaths, affected 101.8 million people and...
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2021 Disasters in numbers
Executive summary In 2021, the Emergency Event Database (EM-DAT) recorded 432 disastrous events related to natural hazards worldwide. Overall, these accounted for 10,492 deaths, affected 101.8...
Cred Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 65 (March 2022) - Technological Disasters: Trends & Transport accidents
As well as disasters related to natural hazards, EM-DAT reports on the occurrence and impacts of technological disasters, which are categorized into three subgroups: industrial, transport, and...
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CRED Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 62 (May 2021) - Disaster Year in Review 2020: Global Trends and Perspectives
In 2020, 389 natural disasters were reported in EMDAT killing 15,080 people, affecting 98.4 million others and costing 171.3 billion US$. The year 2020 rivalled 2016 as the world’s hottest recorded...
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2020: the non-COVID Year in Disasters - Global Trends and Perspectives
Executive Summary The year 2020 rivalled 2016 as the world’s hottest recorded year despite the absence of a strong El Niño effect. Apart from the COVID-19 pandemic, the year was dominated by...
Cred Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 61 (December 2020) - Human Cost of Disasters (2000-2019)
Over the last twenty years, 7,348 disaster events were recorded worldwide by EM-DAT, one of the foremost international databases of such events. In total, as seen in Figure 1, disasters claimed...
Use of earth observation satellites to improve effectiveness of humanitarian operations
Authors: Rémi Froment, supervised by Boris van Loenhout, Sophie Vanwambeke and in collaboration with Debarati Guha-Sapir. 1. Introduction Throughout human history, technological innovations have...
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The Human Cost of Disasters - An overview of the last 20 years 2000-2019
UNDRR report published to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on October 13, 2020, confirms how extreme weather events have come to dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st...
Cred Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 60 (September 2020) - Technological disasters
Natural vs. Technological Disasters Brussels, 2020 – Two main groups of disasters are distinguished in the international disaster database EM-DAT: natural disasters and technological disasters. While...
Natural Disasters 2019
Executive Summary In 2019, 396 natural disasters were recorded in EM-DAT with 11,755 deaths, 95 million people affected and 103 billion US$1 in economic losses across the world. The burden was not...
Cred Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 59 (July 2020) - COVID-19 and other disasters
The current COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event that tests the ability of health systems and governments to manage health risks. For instance, the capacity of medical services such as...
Cred Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 58 (April 2020) - Disaster 2019: Year in Review
In 2019, at least 396 natural disasters were reported in EM-DAT killing 11,755 people, affecting 95 million others and costing nearly 130 billion US$. The number of events this year is slightly over...
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Cred Crunch Newsletter, Issue No. 57 (January 2020) - Refugee crisis in Bangladesh: a view from the field
In this issue, we revisit the disaster profile of Bangladesh. We also provide an in-depth understanding of the living situation in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, which was a result of a field...