FLOODING, VOLCANIC eruptions, typhoons and earthquakes: 2011 brought them all. In February, over 180 people were killed when an earthquake struck the south-eastern city of Christchurch in New Zealand. A month later, thousands died after a 9.0-magnitude JOHANNESBURG, 27 November 2012 (IRIN) - Many of the worst natural disasters of 2011 were also the most severe the affected countries had ever experienced, revealed the Global Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2013, which was released in Doha on 27 November. From the earthquake and tsunami in Japan to fourteen disasters causing over a billion dollars each in damage in the United States, 2011 was particularly damaging for developed countries. Reviewing 2011’s natural disasters, Elizabeth Ferris and Daniel a flood in Australia so vast it turned an area almost twice as large as Texas into a disaster zone. The first half of 2011 saw thousands of lives lost to natural disasters and made it the most expensive on record in terms of property damage. In A report released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says that 2011's natural disasters each caused at least $1 billion in damage. Ranging from blizzards to brushfires, the collection of natural phenomena is costing Natural disasters like the Japan and New Zealand earthquakes, the Thai floods and Hurricane Irene cost the world economy a record $350 billion in 2011, according to the reinsurer Swiss Re. “2011 will be the year with the highest catastrophe-related .
After the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, it is virtually impossible not to and infrastructure weaknesses. But mitigation of natural disasters is complex. Communication, safety, and land use planning are More than 10 per cent of all natural disasters that occurred worldwide in 2011 happened in the Philippines according to a NGO report Tuesday. The Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC) said in a news release Tuesday, the Philippines topped the list of From Hurricane Irene, which soaked the entire East Coast in August, to the Midwest tornadoes, which wrought havoc from Wisconsin to Texas, 2011 has seen more billion-dollar natural disasters than any year on record, according to the National Climatic Data Updated: Tue, Dec 27 2011. 11 37 PM IST A 13 March photo of cars, trucks and other debris swept inland by the tsunami that followed the Japan earthquake, in Miyagi prefecture’s Sendai city. From floods that crippled countries, to mega cyclones, huge .
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