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Summarized Table of natural Disasters in Bangladesh from 1904 to 2004

Summarized Table of natural Disasters in Bangladesh
from 1904 to 2004
  # of
Events
Killed Injured Homeless Affected Total
Affected
DamageUS
(000's)
Drought 5 18 0 0 25,002,000 25,002,000 0
ave. per event   4 0 0 5,000,400 5,000,400 0
               
Earthquake 6 34 625 15,000 3,500 19,125 0
ave. per event   6 104 2,500 583 3,188 0
               
Epidemic 28 403,102 0 0 2,757,825 2,757,825 0
ave. per event   14,397 0 0 98,494 98,494 0
               
Extreme Temperature 14 1,891 2,000 0 84,000 86,000 0
ave. per event   135 143 0 6,000 6,143 0
               
Famine 1 1,900,000 0 0 0 0 0
ave. per event   1,900,000 0 0 0 0 0
               
Flood 62 49,680 102,020 60,853,724 278,043,273 338,999,017 9,165,100
ave. per event   801 1,646 981,512 4,484,569 5,467,726 147,824
               
Wave / Surge 1 1 10 12,000 0 12,010 0
ave. per event   1 10 12,000 0 12,010 0
               
Wind Storm 137 614,112 872,907 9,934,943 53,008,561 63,816,411 3,008,880
ave. per event   4,483 6,372 72,518 386,924 465,813 21,963
               
Created on: Aug-1-2004. - Data version: v07.04

 Source:"EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database,
www.em-dat.net - Université catholique de Louvain - Brussels - Belgium"

 
*Events recorded in the CRED EM-DAT. First Event: Nov/1904, Last Entry: Jun/2004.        
 
*Epidemics inluded: Respiratory(Influenza), Diarrhoeal/Enteric(Cholera), Intestinal protozoal(Dysentery), Unknown, Diarrhoeal/Enteric, Diarrhoeal/Enteric(Water-borne diseases), Malaria, Diarrhoeal/Enteric(Acute diarroheal syndrome), Arbovirus(Dengue), Arbovirus(Nipah viral disease)

 

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