UN DISASTER STATS
February 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLALTHOUGH the south Asian Tsunami meant 2004 was a terrible year for deaths caused by natural disasters, personal damage caused by such events was actually less than in 2003, the United Nations has reported. Its Brussels-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) said that more than 320,000 people perished last year in 366 natural disasters, with the Tsunami killing at least 300,000. However, said CRED's Professor Debarati Guha-Sapir: "Without the tsunami, a dramatically exceptional event, the general trend which shows a ...
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