Disasters and crazy things past 10 years

Hello, well you probably clicked this thinking that I'm going to list them, but, actually, just made it to ask if anyone has a list of the natural disasters/crazy things which have happened in the past decade. I'm perty sure there have been an unusual number of tsunamis and earthquakes and such...anyone have a list?

Damn you people sucking me into a thread with your headlines, only to be fooled again.

I cant help. Sorry.

I don't have a list, but I have a suggestion for a painfully obvious disaster that's occurred in the last ten years.

The US election of an incompetent retard in 2008 as President.

Talk about a disaster.

I recently attempted to create a thread on this and listed some things (off the top of my head). I got a couple "meh" responses and then became too pre-occupied with other threads. Here it is tho if you want to take a look.

Doom and gloom checklist over the last decade

I found a great Xinhua net listing a couple of months ago- that I don't think even covered the Chili quake. I'll look for it. Meanwhile here is this from a 2009 UN Press conference that was called because of the extreme number of natural disasters that had occurred up to that point in time:

Link to story

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- More than ninety percent of global natural disasters in this year were due to extreme weather events, said Margareta Wahlstrom, the United Nations Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction in Copenhagen Monday.... (snip)

The figures showed that weather related disasters accounts for 91.4 percent of all natural disasters recorded this year. To be specific, out of the 245 disasters in 2009, 224 were weather related, accounting for 55 million people out of 58 million people affected, 7000 out of 8900 of those killed, and 15 billion US dollars out of the 19 billion dollars in economic damages.

I found this site:
Database Link
A new database formed for study of International Natural Disasters.

I found this news story that used some of it's data: it only (again) goes through 2009 and part of 2010.
News Story Link

And already Mother Nature has delivered a blow in 2010, from the catastrophic Haiti and Chilean earthquakes to the U.S. blizzard that descended on Washington, D.C., in February. In fact 2010 is already proving above average in terms of natural-disaster casualties. The new report, called the Annual Disaster Statistical Review and compiled by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, reveals the unequal distribution of the burden from natural disasters. For instance, from the 111 countries affected by natural disasters last year, 18 accounted for more than 75 percent of the overall reported number of deaths, victims (number killed and affected) and economic damages. The top 10 countries by number of notable natural disasters experienced in 2009 were: Philippines: 25 disaster events * China People's Republic: 24 events * United States: 16 events * India: 15 events * Indonesia: 12 events * Brazil: 9 events * Mexico: 7 events * Australia: 6 events * Bangladesh: 6 events * Viet Nam: 6 events The number of events doesn't tell the whole story, though, since disaster type and intensity as well as the country's infrastructure can play a role in determining the number of human victims. Here are the top 10 countries by natural-disaster-caused mortality in 2009: * India: 1,806 deaths * Indonesia: 1,407 * Philippines: 1,334 * Taiwan: 630 * China: 591 * Australia: 535 * Peru: 419 * Viet Nam: 356 * Italy: 335 * El Salvador: 275 Nature's most destructive disasters Hydrological disasters, such as floods, remained the most common disasters in 2009, accounting for 53.7 percent of total reported natural disasters. This was followed by meteorological disasters (storms such as hurricanes), accounting for 25.4 percent of disasters; geophysical disasters (earthquakes, volcanoes) accounted for 2.7 percent of total disasters. The 10 most destructive disasters regarding mortality included: * Earthquake in September, which killed 1,117 individuals in Indonesia * Flood from July-September, which killed 992 individuals in India * Ketsana tropical storm Ondoy from September-October killed 716 individuals in the Philippines, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic * Typhoon Morakot in August killed 664 individuals in Taiwan, the Philippines and China * Typhoon Pepeng in October killed 542 individuals in the Philippines and China * Heat wave from January-February killed 347 individuals in Australia * Flood from September-October killed 300 in India * Cyclone Aila in May killed 298 individuals in Bangladesh, India and Bhutan * Earthquake in April killed 295 individuals in Italy * Hurricane Ida in November killed 281 individuals in El Salvador, the United States, Mexico and Nicaragua

reply to post by FarArcher


Typhoon George or Tropical Front Barry

I figure the Tropical Front came through after the Typhoon had already utterly destroyed the landscape- so it might even serve to wash away some of the mess.

reply to post by Stratus9


Thanks a dozen, mate!