NATURAL DISASTERS!!

  Natural disaster is the impact of a natural-occurring hazard has such as flood, tornado, earthquake, volcanic eruption, epidemic diseases and more.  Environmental issues such as climate change had been a major contribution towards the incidence of natural disasters.

 
   Some of the recent natural disasters around the world includes:

• Flooding in the Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. (4th Jan 2011)

• Flood and mudslide in Brazil (13th Jan 2011)

• Drought in East Africa (1st Jan 2011)

• Russian summer heat wave (9th Aug 2010) 

•  Haiti 7.0 magnitude earthquake (12th Jan 2010)

   According to the United Nations (UN), 2010 was one of the worst years on record for natural disasters over the past two decades, leaving nearly 297,000 people dead. The Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) counted that there were 373 natural disasters in the year of 2010. Besides, the economic cost of the 373 major disasters recorded in 2010 reached 109 billion dollars!

2010's disasters were deadliest in 2 decades