| Summary/Abstract |
According to recent World Disaster Reports the percentage of occurrences of flood is highest (43 per cent) with 3062 occurrences of the total disasters during 1995-2015 followed by storms (28 per cent) with 2018 occurrences. The volcanic activities have the lowest occurrence of only 111 events (2 per cent). Others include earthquake (8 per cent), extreme temperature (6 per cent), landslide (5 per cent), drought (5 per cent) and wildfire (4 per cent). According to EM-DAT CRED the hydrological and meteorological disasters are causing loss of about USD 250 million every year.
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