Temblor trauma | |||
Off all natural disaster in 1995,the Kobe quake was the biggest killer | |||
EARTHQUAKE IN 1995 | |||
Place | Magnitude* | Date | Dead |
Japan | 7.2 | January | 5,502 |
Colombia | 6.5 | Febeuary | 34 |
Colombia | 5.1 | March | 8 |
Russian Fed | 7.5 | May | 1,825 |
Greece | 6.1 | June | 26 |
Chile | 7.8 | July | 3 |
China | 6.4 | October | 20 |
Turkey | 6.1 | October | 101 |
Indonesia | 7 | October | 84 |
Mexico | 6.8 | October | 40 |
*On the Richter scaleOn the Richter scale |
Gone with the wind | |||
The year 1995 was the second worst hurricane season ever recorded | |||
CYCLONES/HURRICANES/TYPHOONS IN 1995 | |||
Place | Disaster | Date | Dead |
Bahmas | Hurricane Erin | August | 0 |
Cuba | Hurricane Erin | August | 0 |
Caribbean | Hurricane Luis | September | 5 |
Caribbean | Hurricane Marylin | September | 0 |
Philippines | Storm Sybil | October | 35 |
Philippines | Topical Storm Zack | October | 88 |
Philippines | Typhoon Angela+floods | October | 722 |
Philippines | Typhoon Zack | November | 253 |
Bangladesh | Cyclone | November | 0 |
Bangladesh | Cyclone | November | 0 |
Watery graves | |||||||
Among all the natural disasters,floods by far take the largest number of human lives | |||||||
FLOODS/LANDSLIDES IN 1995 | FLOODS/LANDSLIDES IN 1995 | ||||||
Place | Disaster | Date | Dead | Place | Disaster | Date | Dead |
India | Avalanches | January | 63 | Pakistan | Monsoon rains | July | 451 |
Botswana | Floods | March | 20 | Morocco | Floods | August | 230 |
Afghanistan | Landslides | March | 350 | Korea North | Floods | August | 70 |
Bangladesh | Storms | April | 119 | Korea South | Floods | August | 36 |
Indonesia | Floods | May | 51 | Philippines | Floods | September | 48 |
Ethiopia | Floods | May | 27 | Myanmar | Floods | September | 51 |
Bangladesh | Floods | June | 66 | Vietnam | Floods | September | 85 |
Nepal | Landslides | June | 85 | Thailand | Floods | October | 231 |
China | Floods | July | 1,179 | Turkey | Floods | November | 62 |
Ghana | Floods | July | 40 | South Africa | Floods | December | 161 |