NATURAL  DISASTERS
Data on Worldwide Disasters from 1900 to 1998

EVENTS	NUMBER	KILLED	AFFECTED	Killed/day	Affected/day
Avalanches & Landslides	408	67,766	8,948,887	~ 2	~ 245
Drought, Famine	742	17,773,832	1,495,300,000	~ 487	~ 40,967
Epidemics	525	34,461,814	36,571,856	~ 944	~ 1,002
Earthquakes	1,029	1,850,635	63,519,258	~ 51	~ 1,740
Floods	2,042	7,451,484	~2,204,700,000	~ 204	~ 60,403
Storms, Cyclones, Hurricanes,Typhoons	2,350	1,199,197	413,420,000	~ 33	~ 11,327
Cold wave, Tsunami, Insects infestations	337	43,193	56,465,200	~ 1	~ 1,547
Volcanoes	180	109,436	3,546,360	~ 3	~ 97
T O T A L	7,613	62,957,357	4,282,403,000	~ 1,725	~ 117,326

                   Reference:   EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
                                          www.cred.be/emdat- Universite' Catholique de Louvain - Brussels, Belgium